Whoopi Goldberg Celebrates the Arrival of Her Second Nice-Grandchild

Whoopi Goldberg is a great-grandmother of two!

On the newest episode of The View, launched Monday, Dec. 8, the veteran actress and broadcaster, 70, introduced that she had welcomed her second great-grandchild over the weekend.

“I’m going to start out out in the present day as a result of I’ve some enjoyable information from over the weekend. My household welcomed Lotus Dean to the world. She’s 6lbs., 3oz.,” she stated. “That’s Lotus and Ruby [the dog]. She is, that’s her dad — my grandson, Mason.”

“He seems in love,” co-host Sunny Hostin added, to which Goldberg joked, “Yeah, that’ll change.”

“Congratulations,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin stated.

“It’s an exquisite factor,” added Goldberg. “It’s an exquisite factor. That is my second.”

Co-host Ana Navarro then stated, “And congratulations to Alex, who’s a grandmother once more,” in reference to Goldberg’s solely youngster, Alex Martin, whom she shares along with her first husband, Alvin Martin.

“I don’t take into consideration that, I merely take into consideration myself,” Goldberg added. “Trigger I by no means thought I’d have two great-grandkids. To be there for that.”

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“What do they name you? Glam-ma or…?” Hostin requested.

“No, they name me Whoopi — trigger I’m not the grandma! I’m the nice grandma! So simply Whoopi,” the Sister Act legend replied.

Mimicking Goldberg’s first great-grandchild, co-host Sara Haines stated, “Oopi, sit down!”

“She couldn’t say her Ws, so I used to be ‘Oopi’ for the longest time,” Goldberg defined. “So we’ll see. However I believe this one, she’s able to get stuff completed.”

“So alert!”  Hostin stated as photographs of the new child appeared behind the co-hosts.

“Sure, she’s very alert,” Goldberg added.

Goldberg first turned a great-grandmother in 2014 when her eldest grandchild, Amara Skye, welcomed a daughter, Charli Rose.

“I wasn’t your regular grandmother, and I am not going to be your regular great-grandmother,” she stated on The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon in July 2014, including that she turned a grandmother in her 30s.

Requested what her great-grandchild ought to name her on the time, Goldberg stated, “She higher name me Whoopi.”

The mom of 1’s daughter shares Amara Dean, 36, Jerzey Dean, 29, and Mason Dean, 27, along with her husband Bernard Dean.