Anderson Cooper, the primary anchor of the CNN news show "Anderson Cooper 360°," said in an interview with Howard Stern that he won't be inheriting his mother Gloria Vanderbilt's millions. Vanderbilt, 90, is a legacy to the New York railroad fortune of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is reportedly worth $200 million. While she did have a trust fund, Vanderbilt is also known for her proliferative careers in fashion and art. Cooper says of his mother, "She made more money on her own than she ever inherited. We believe in working."

"My mom's made clear to me that there's no trust fund," Cooper said in an interview with Howard Stern on Monday. "There's none of that."

Furthermore, Cooper, 46, doesn't "believe in inheriting money" and that he thinks having one would be a "curse." "Who's inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in their own life?" he states. "From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would've been so motivated."

The silver haired CNN "360" anchor makes enough on his own. He reportedly makes $11 million a year and is the cable network's most highly paid anchor. Cooper doesn't "own any railroads," he joked. "Honestly, like my dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I more paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay attention to than like some statute of a great-great-great grandfather who has no connection to my life." His father, Wyatt Emory Cooper, was an author and screenwriter, who married Vanderbilt on December 24, 1963. Cooper was her fourth husband. He sadly passed away at a young age, age 50, on January 5, 1978, in New York City during open heart surgery.