Kelly Ripa is looking back not so fondly at something her husband Mark Consuelos did during their first pregnancy.
On Monday’s episode of Live with Kelly & Mark, the mom of three reminisced on being pregnant with their son Michael, 27, and how Consuelos decided to address his health while she was growing their child. Ripa began, “Let me tell you something. You want to know something really irritating? When I was pregnant, Mark decided he was going to join a gym and hire a trainer. And the more pregnant I got, the fitter he got,” she griped.
There are definitely pros and cons to your husband getting ripped while you’re pregnant, but we can totally empathize with Ripa’s dismay! Pregnancy is often not kind to women’s bodies, and the physical changes take a mental toll.
Ripa continued, “I had heard about all of these sympathetic, empathetic husbands that also get pregnant with their wives. And that the wives gain a bunch of weight — which I did — and the husbands gain it along with them and then they have fun taking it off together. He turned into Hercules,” she accused Conseulos, who jokingly responded, “Because you did it for both of us, baby. You gained the weight for both of us.” Somehow we don’t think that’s the response Ripa was looking for.
Ripa quipped, “I remember because I had gained 68 lbs. when I was pregnant with Michael.” The talk show host added an article circulated at the time with a headline that said it looked like she “had 7 babies in there.” Ah, yes, public commentary on a woman’s body—a pregnant one, nonetheless. The gall never gets less shocking.
“He was big, I will hand it to him,” Ripa admitted. “But still, it was this thing where he said, ‘Here, you shouldn’t feel bad.’ And I go, ‘Did you read the part about her having 7 children?'” She jokingly added, “But he brought it in with his rippling muscles. He just came from the gym.” Speaking of those aforementioned pros…
In addition to Michael, Ripa and Consuelos share two kids: 23-year-old daughter Lola and 21-year-old son Joaquin.
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