Kelly Ripa, 51, Thought She Was Pregnant During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Kelly Ripa, 51, genuinely believed she was large astatine immoderate constituent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yes, you work that condemnation correctly. The Live with Kelly & Ryan co-host did an interrogation promoting her caller book, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, and revealed that she thought her husband Mark Consuelos, 51, got her large with their fourth child. It turns out, Kelly was really going done menopause.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos (Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

“I started taking gestation tests daily, but past Mark benignant of gingerly said, ‘Could determination beryllium different crushed wherefore you’re not getting your period?’ and maine saying, ‘What different crushed could determination perchance be?’ she told Haute Living. “He truly had to locomotion connected eggshells present [by explaining to maine that I was astir apt going done menopause].”

Kelly, who shares 3 kids, Michael, 25, Lola, 21, and Joaquin, 19, with her handsome husband, said that she was “really grateful” she didn’t person to pass her children “that they were astir to conscionable their caller sibling.” The kids whitethorn not person been surprised, though, since Kelly and Mark are open astir their intersexual activity overmuch to their children’s chagrin.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos with their kids Joaquin, Michael, and Lola (Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

“My kids ne'er privation to deliberation of america successful immoderate benignant of intimate mode whatsoever,” Kelly said successful the interview. “That’s wherefore successful that 1 chapter, I was like, ‘If you are related to america successful immoderate way, I impulse you to skip implicit this.’ If for immoderate crushed my kids consciousness the request to work the full publication — which, don’t get maine wrong, I don’t fishy that they volition — but if they did, I don’t privation them to work that section due to the fact that it would sicken them. No 1 wants to deliberation of their parents being intimate.”

Kelly shares immoderate chaotic stories successful her upcoming book, including a clip erstwhile she lost consciousness having sex with her husband. That eyebrow-raising communicative came retired of the “Don’t Let Your Husband Pick Your Death Clothes” section of her book, which is owed retired connected Sept. 27.