Live With Kelly and Mark cohosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are the same age — 54 — but it doesn’t feel like it Ripa. She sees every bit of the six months of life experience that she has on Consuelos whenever she looks in the mirror.
“Every day that I wake up aging like six months more than you, it bothers me,” Ripa said on Monday’s episode. “I resent the fact that you just aren’t aging. At all. In any way. I mean, a little bit.”
Consuelos teased that he’s “fine with it,” but his wife of 29 years said she was “resentful,” because of how she has changed in age. “It’s your fault!” she said.
Ripa told the audience, “He just now started to get like three hairs, and he’s like, ‘Can you see it? Can you see the gray hairs?'”
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos co-host ‘Live With Kelly and Mark’.
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Consuelos said he knows better than to pluck them.
“No, don’t pluck them,” Ripa advised. “If I had plucked out my gray hairs, I’d be bald. Completely bald. Totally bald.”
Ripa and Consuelos met in 1995, after he was cast on All My Children, which she had been on since 1991. They married in Las Vegas the following year and raised three children: Michael, 28; Lola, 24; and 22-year-old Joaquin. They’ve cohosted their morning talk show since 2023, although she had been on since 2001.
Their conversation about aging began as they spoke about the ideal age difference for couples. A recent study found that the happiest couples have a difference of zero to three years.
Ripa argued that women often look older because “we have greater stressors on our systems.”
When Consuelos suggested that childbirth was one of them, she agreed and added “or just generalized worrying about every single person in our lives at all times. So I think that ages people in a way.”
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In addition to their morning banter, Ripa and Consuelos are now for swapping sweet messages on social media.
For instance, Consuelos marked their latest anniversary with a collection of photos of him and his wife, which he captioned, “Happy 29th anniversary sexy.” She commented, “Best decision of my life! I love you.”