Kelly Ripa has opened up on her nearly 27-year marriage with her husband Mark Consuelos in a new podcast.
The couple first met in 1995 when the 51-year-old Riverdale actor joined the cast of All My Children, where the 52-year-old actress starred as Hayley Vaughan. They then tied the knot in May 1996.
The Live With Kelly and Ryan star shared a glimpse into the beginning of her marriage in her new Sirius XM podcast, Let’s Talk Off Camera, and reflected on her husband being "insanely jealous".
"My biggest complaint about you over the course of our marriage - and this is not recent because it definitely changed - but you used to be insanely jealous and that was a hard pill to swallow," Ripa said in a teaser for the episode, per Entertainment Tonight.
"It's very hard being married to somebody who is jealous," she stated, adding that he had a "perception of a scenario," before sharing an example.
"It was our first week of marriage because we didn't take our honeymoon until later. You were working and I went to visit you in Boston," Ripa recalled. "We went to this Italian restaurant and the waiter was like a very cute old man, he's definitely in his 70s if not 80s.
"He leaned down and he said, 'And for the principessa?'" she continued, with Consuelos confirming that he remembers the specific interaction and admits that he "got upset" at the moment.
"I thought it was so cute that this little old man called me a princess, and I looked at him and I gave him my order in a very smiley way," Ripa added. "And he walked away and you picked a horrible fight."
"I remember that. Look at age 25, I was pretty insane," the self-aware husband reflected. "But that jealousy thing definitely followed me for a while. I'm not jealous anymore."
Ripa told her spouse that she's "so grateful that you're not," before the Queen of the South actor discussed his "character flaw" at the beginning of their relationship.
"It's ugly. As ugly as it feels to the person who has to be on the receiving end of it, it's such an ugly feeling inside. If this is any consolation, you know you're being crazy," he remarked. "The jealous person knows that this is wrong and it's ugly, but they can't help it."
Consuelos revealed that he doesn't know what caused him to simmer down with his jealousy, but explained: "I wanted to do some work on myself and that was one of the major things that I needed to work on because it was getting in the way."
The couple's marriage successfully lived on as they went on to welcome three children in their lives: Michael, 25, Lola, 21, and Joaquin, 20.
As for the next chapter in the professional career, the two will be seeing each other a lot more on-air, as Consuelos is replacing Ripa's former co-host Ryan Seacrest, on Live With Kelly and Ryan next month.
