Kelly Ripa Calls Out Mark Consuelos With Message on Aging

Kelly Ripa Calls Out Mark Consuelos With Message on Aging

E! News·2025-07-01 10:02

Kelly Ripa is only six months older than Mark Consuelos, but it's quite the age gap in her mind.

And Ripa just wanted to make sure that her husband of 29 years knows that, playfully roasting his youthful appearance on the June 30 episode of Live With Kelly and Mark.

"Every day that I wake up aging six months more than you," she told him, launching into what bugs her about their seemingly negligible age difference.

"It bothers you," Consuelos guessed.

Ripa acknowledged that it did, adding, "Like, I resent the fact that you just aren’t aging. At all. In any way. Not even a little bit," to which Consuelos replied, "I'm fine with it."

All told, both 54-year-olds take very good care of themselves, and have the respective thirst traps they post of each other to prove it. But any resentment she feels about her husband's vibrant appearance, she noted, is Consuelos' fault.

"He just now started to get three gray hairs and he’s like, ‘Can you see it? Can you see the gray hairs?’" she told the audience. But if she plucked out her grays, Ripa quipped, "I’d be bald. Completely bald. Totally bald."

She has joked in the past about being awash in gray hair, cracking a year ago on Live, "Do I just become full Mrs. Claus, or what am I doing?"

And this was hardly the first back-and-forth about aging that she and Consuelos—who share kids Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22—have had on Live, either, all of it in good fun.

Ripa said last October that she found the topic of "gray divorce" fascinating after hearing about the increase over the last few decades in breakups among couples older than 50.

"I was reading this article and I started talking to Mark about it," she shared, explaining that "Mark got very defensive," asking why she was reading such a thing in the first place.

She was almost lulled into wanting one, Ripa added, clarifying that she had listened to the article, before she realized that the guy reading the story just had a really nice voice.

“It sounds like something amazing, and then you realize, ‘Oh, this is very dark subject matter,’" Ripa said. "But the voice of the narrator is so soothing."

See what more celebrities have said about aging, the profound along with the funny:

"I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's okay. Life is about change," she told Self.

"There's no such thing as anti-aging. We're all aging, period. Women take it as something personal that they are getting older. They think that they failed somehow by not staying 25. This is crazy to me because my belief is that it's a privilege to get older—not everybody gets to get older," she told Access Hollywood.

"Historically when women have made strides of some type, culturally things rise up to oppress them. Right now I feel like we've made a lot of strides, but nobody's allowed to age or look pregnant. I feel all of that stuff has gotten worse. It's a brilliant way to keep people enslaved, by having them horrified by themselves. Well I refuse to feel shame about being human," she told the Los Angeles Times.

"When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting," she told Harper's Bazaar.

"I'm actually happier with my body now… because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's," she told Popsugar.

"Gravity and wrinkles are fine with me. They're a small price to pay for the new wisdom inside my head and my heart. If my breasts fall down to the floor and everything starts to sag, becoming hideous and gross, I won't worry," as she told Bustle

"F--k you. I'm 50. That's what I'm going to say when I turn 50. Sorry," as she told Popsugar

"Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets," as the told PopSugar

"When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it," she told Bustle

"I do think about ageing. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much," she told Marie Claire UK.

"There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty," she told Ok! Magazine.

"Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead," as she told MarieClaire.

"I'm baffled that anyone might not think women get more beautiful as they get older. Confidence comes with age, and looking beautiful comes from the confidence someone has in themselves," she told Net-a-Porter Magazine

"People who lie about their age are denying the truth and contributing to a sickness pervading our society—the sickness of wanting to be what you're not.... I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life," she wrote in O Magazine.

"Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.... In my older face, I see my life. Every wrinkle, every smile line, every age spot. There is a saying that with age, you look outside what you are inside. If you are someone who never smiles, your face gets saggy. If you're a person who smiles a lot, you will have more smile lines. Your wrinkles reflect the roads you have taken; they form the map of your life. My face reflects the wind and sun and rain and dust from the trips I've taken. My face carries all my memories. Why should I erase them?" she told Vogue

"But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin," she told Glamour.

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