It can be tough to find a life separate from that of your BFF. Especially if you lived together as brothers in a very nice house, with two parents who are generally pretty great, in a world where people are very dramatic because they're so bored of being rich. You can run away and turn to cage fighting, but it's not really where you belong.
So when Seth Cohen became a Cool Dad after finding dual-coast love with Blair Waldorf, Ryan Atwood was all, "Hey! Yeah, same, buddy!"
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Okay, so all of these people are actual humans, with names that Josh Schwartz -- creator of The O.C. and Gossip Girl, and Shakespeare to teens of the aughts -- did not give them.
Real people Adam Brody and Leighton Meester confirmed to Us Weekly that they have welcomed a daughter: Arlo Day, potentially named after folk legend Arlo Guthrie. The couple married on February 15, 2014 and are already proud dog parents. They have shared the screen in Oranges and Life Partners.
Hours after their announcement, Brody's former O.C. co-star Ben McKenzie confirmed that he and Morena Baccarin, his current co-star on Gotham, are expecting a child together.
Congrats are in order for both new families. May they share a lifetime of happy Chrismukkahs -- and both aspire to be as cool a dad as Sandy Cohen.
