Fox News personalities Riley Gaines and Kat Timpf used their podcast this week to challenge comments made by “Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper, who told listeners that women can always find a better partner than the one they’re currently with.
Speaking on “The Girls,” Gaines and Timpf argued that the better approach for married women is to invest in the relationship rather than assume someone better is waiting elsewhere.
“To kind of combat the narrative that’s out there that we just heard from Alex Cooper, ‘seek more, seek better, it’s the patriarchy,’ which is of course just intentionally using buzzwords,” Gaines said.
“The grass is not always greener on the other side. I have found, at least in my marriage, it’s greener where you water it. Pouring into your husband, allowing him to pour into you, that’s where I’ve seen growth,” she added.
The comments were a direct response to a “Call Her Daddy” episode released earlier this month featuring Cooper and actress Sophia Bush, whose 2023 divorce from entrepreneur Grant Hughes drew significant media attention. In the episode, Cooper and Bush discussed women who hesitate to leave their marriages out of fear they won’t find anyone better — a fear both women dismissed outright.
“That’s such a beautiful message to leave women with because I do think we can get really, really in our heads about, ‘Oh my God, I feel like I’m, maybe I shouldn’t leave this marriage because can I even get better?'” Cooper said. “And the answer is always yes.”
Bush agreed, adding: “And this idea that it’s too late or you’re too old or who are you to want more? That’s patriarchy. That is crazy. We don’t need it.”
Timpf pushed back directly on Cooper’s framing, pointing to her own husband’s support through some of the hardest moments of her life.
“I also couldn’t disagree more with what she said because, first of all, she said you can always do better than your husband. That’s not true,” Timpf said. “I know that I can’t do better than my husband because I mean, he’s hot and all that. But also just, I mean I can’t do better than the guy that held my hand through cancer, through childbirth, then my father’s funeral.”
Timpf said people sometimes find it controversial when she states plainly that her marriage comes before everything else in her life.
“There’s nothing more important in my life than my marriage,” she said. “And people say, ‘But what about your kids?’ It’s like, ‘Okay, but it’s for my kids that I have that opinion.’ Because if you do not make time as a couple and see each other as a couple and keep that going, then that’s not good for the family either.”
“The Girls” podcast is available on Fox News Digital, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and other podcast platforms.
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