Kelly Ripa, 53, reveals she's already got her funeral dress ready for husband Mark Consuelos

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By Asiya Ali

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Kelly Ripa has shockingly shared that she already has her funeral dress picked out and labeled.

The 53-year-old Live With Kelly and Ryan host has been married to the Riverdale actor since 1996, and the couple share three children: Michael, 26, Joaquin, 20, and Lola, 22.

During Friday's (January 12) episode of the couple's talk show, Live with Kelly & Mark, Ripa revealed that she has a gown picked out for the future ceremony, just in case her husband Mark Consuelos is not up to the task of choosing what she'll be laid to rest in.

"I’m so fearful if he has to eulogize me," she said on the show, as cited by PEOPLE. "First of all, at the funeral, it’ll be a buffet of all my least favorite things. It’ll be deviled eggs, it’ll be chicken wings, it’ll be glasses of milk."

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Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa have been married since 1996. Credit: Jeff Kravitz / Getty

The 52-year-old All My Children actor interjected that his wife wouldn't be around to have any control over the occasion, quipping: "Hey, watch out because I’m going to have to dress you as well. You better be nice now, or I’m going to put you in something crazy!"

However, the mom-of-three was one step ahead as she went on to tell her spouse that she'd already had an outfit for that day hanging in her closet and ready to go.

"Let me remind you where the outfit hangs. It is labeled and Lauren knows about it." Ripa revealed. "It’s a Dolce & Gabbana black dress. It’s 10 years old. It’s elegant, it’s gorgeous, it’s black, it’s adorable."

This is not the first time the talk show host has explained her decision to pick out her own funeral dress, as she also mentioned it during a March 2016 episode of the show. At the time, Ripa recalled the time she passed out after giving birth to her first child, leading her husband to have to call 911.

"I was naked when I passed out," she said. "And in that time, he dressed me. And as they were putting me on a stretcher I remember pulling the sheet over my head because I didn't want people to see me dressed this way."

The paramedics told her not to pull the sheet up as that would signify the patient was dead, to which she jokingly replied that she would have "rather [been] dead right now" than have the people see her in the outfit that Consuelos chose for her, which happened to be a pair of his sweatpants worn over a green leotard and completed with a pair of "red pumps".

"I’m serious, and when they took me into the emergency room … the nurses determined I must have been unconscious at some point because of the way that I was dressed," she joked. "And that made me a priority [in the E.R.]"

Ripa then went on to state that the traumatic incident is why she "picked out" her own funeral clothes.

I mean...who can blame her?

Featured image credit: Jeff Kravitz / Getty