Kelly Ripa has opened up about her sex life with her husband, Mark Consuelos, including one "disgusting" habit that he has in the bedroom.
The daytime TV queen, 54, opened up about her long-running marriage on Tuesday’s episode of Amanda Hirsch’s Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, where the couple’s bedroom habits became a candid topic of discussion.
“I don’t know about you, in your marriage, but I’m going to go personal. Are you an evening person or a morning person?” Ripa asked Hirsch, who quickly confirmed: “Definitely evening. Do not breathe on me in the morning.”
From there, Ripa didn’t hold back, revealing that Consuelos — her husband of nearly three decades — has a very specific preference.
“I find it disgusting,” she said, claiming, “all men prefer to get it on in the morning.” And according to her, Consuelos “only” wants sex first thing.
“He’ll never learn. He’s a guy,” she joked.
After 29 years of marriage, Ripa said she’s had to put her foot down and ask for a bit more balance.
“I said to him, ‘Here’s the thing,’” she recalled. “‘There needs to be a yin and a yang here. It can’t always be your way. ‘Cause it feels like 90 percent of the time it’s your way. And now that we work together every day, it’s gonna have to sometimes be my way, and my way’s at night only.’”
But it’s not just sex that’s off-limits for her in the morning. Even a kiss is too much before coffee.
“I have a retainer in. I gotta rip that out,” she explained. “And he’s got his nasal strips on. It’s like we are the most repulsive, disgusting [people.]”
Still, she acknowledged, men “don’t care” — adding bluntly: “the d**k has a brain of its own.”
She added: “I’m already pre-disgusted for tomorrow morning.”
Thankfully, working early mornings on Live with Kelly and Mark has had one unexpected benefit.
“The greatest thing about this job, this thing has like, almost repulsed him from morning time during the work week,” Ripa said. “Which is like a miracle.”
She even cracked: “May this show last until he suffers from erectile dysfunction,” before questioning why that hasn’t happened yet.
“Shouldn’t that be happening now? I was promised!” she laughed.
Still, despite the complaints, Ripa admitted there’s one solid reason they’ve kept the spark alive after all these years.
“It’s like exercise. The more you do it, the more you do it,” she said. “You just have to do it, and then you’re like, ‘Oh! I remember why I like this.’”
She noted that it’s easy to lose sight of intimacy when life is hectic. “You’re exhausted, your kids are young, you’re working full-time, you have a lot on your plate, and that can easily get pushed by the wayside,” she shared.
Ripa and Consuelos first met on the set of All My Children back in 1995, tied the knot just a year later, and have since raised three children: Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22.
These days, with an empty nest, the couple has found more freedom to reconnect — quite literally.
“Your entire life becomes nudity in the household wherever you want,” she said in May on her show.
According to Ripa, they’re now a “total freak show all the time,” and she’s even joked before that their daughter has accidentally walked in on them “doing it” more than once.