Kelly Ripa Rips Mark Consuelos for Getting Fit While She Was Pregnant: ‘I Gained 68 Lbs., He Turned into Hercules’

Mar. 15, 2025

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.Photo:Eugene Gologursky/Getty

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WhenKelly Ripawas pregnant, her husbandMark Consuelosspent his time hitting the gym.

On a Monday, Sept. 2 episode ofLive with Kelly & Mark, the mom of three, 53, spoke about how when she was pregnant with their son Michael, now 27, her husband Consuelos, also 53, got into great shape — much to her annoyance.

“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,” Ripa said on the show. “And the more pregnant I got, the fitter he got.”

“Because I had heard about all of these sympathetic, empathetic husbands that also get pregnant with their wives,” she continued. “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.”

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Ripa responded that she “remember[ed] because I had gained 68 lbs. when I was pregnant with Michael,” adding that a news site had done an article with a headline about how it looked like she “had 7 babies in there.”

“He was a big kid!” Consuelos exclaimed of their older son.

“He was big, I will hand it to him. 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?’ But he brought it in with his rippling muscles. He just came from the gym,” Ripa joked.

“Yeah…got to stay fit in case something happens,” Consuelos responded.

The couple shares sons Joaquin, 21, and Michael, as well as daughter Lola, 23.

source: people.com