Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kelly Ripaand husbandMark Consuelosknow how to stay connected!
During a conversation with their marriage counselor, Dr. Linda Carter, on the debut episode of Ripa’s SiriusXM podcastLet’s Talk Off Camera withKelly Ripa, the couple addressed how they survived being apart while Consuelos filmed on location during the pandemic.
“There were rituals. Can I tell you something? We had sexual rituals that were so ludicrous over FaceTime,” Ripa, 52, admitted.
The television personality admitted she only wanted to showher husband of 26 yearsher most flattering angles during their virtual chats.
“I became so alarmed at my appearance over FaceTime that I started rigging the computer to hang from a ladder,” she shared. “I’m not kidding.”
“I hung the computer over a ladder so that I could look up to Mark and he did not have to see what gravity was actually doing [to me],” she added. “You get really close to yourself in situations where you’re separated from your husband for long periods of time.”
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.Eugene Gologursky/Getty
Ripa also teased theRiverdalealum —who is set to join his wife as co-host onLivenext month, replacingRyan Seacrest— about how he recently learned the difference between sex and intimacy.
“I’m going to blame it on the fact that I traveled so much,” he explained. “A lot had to happen in the time that I was home.”
“I wanted to get intimacy in and the sex in,” he added as Kelly chimed in: “So they became one and the same.”
Ripa suggested that a “potential dealbreaker” for Consuelos, 51, would be if she “cut [him] off sexually.” He agreed but clarified, “Unless you had some type of medical condition where, like, you lost the use of [your body].”
Ripa then shared while going through menopause, there were times she wanted to a break from sex.
“I didn’t give you a break,” he joked. “There have never been months [between having sex] unless I was in another country but if you just decided, ‘Yeah, we’re not having sex anymore,’ I would probably have a problem with that.”
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