Kelly Ripa Wants Mark Consuelos to Develop a Dad Bod, but He Doesn’t Plan on It

Mar. 15, 2025

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.Photo:Lorenzo Bevilaqua/Disney General Entertainment

Lorenzo Bevilaqua/Disney General Entertainment

Mark Consueloswill not be getting a dad bod!

On the Monday, Sept. 2 episode ofLive with Kelly & Mark, co-hostsKelly Ripa, 53, and Consuelos, 53, discussed men’s health. She told her husband that she is ready for him to get a “dad bod,” given that theyalready share three adult children, Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 21.

“I keep waiting for you to come into your dad bod,” Ripa said on the talk show. “When are you going to develop your dad bod, do you think?”

Consuelos quickly shut down the idea, saying, “I don’t plan on it. I don’t plan on it. I plan on trying to stave it off. But it’s natural. They said that nature helped make it happen.”

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.Randy Shropshire/Getty

Randy Shropshire/Getty

The co-host goes on to say the body change is “due to a decrease in testosterone.” He added, “We start crying, we lose hair on our eyebrows.”

Ripa reacted in shock to that new information, asking, “Is that what’s happening? You’ve lost hair on your eyebrows?”

Her husband responded, “Yeah, yeah. You get hair other places, like on my ears” — to which Ripa replied, “I’ve never seen any hair on your ears.”

Consuelos admitted that he found a hair in his ear before but never told her. “One time it was really windy, and I felt something hitting me in the ear,” he said, “and I was like, ‘What is that?’ And it was the longest hair.”

Circling back to their conversation about dad bods, Consuelos continued, “But there’s ways to stave it off. There are ways. Total body exercise, working all the major muscles in the body,” he added, noting the importance of cardiovascular training and nutrition.

For decades, Consuelos has been interested in fitness andmanaged to bulk upwhile Ripa was pregnant with their eldest son.

Earlier in the episode, Ripa said, “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. And the more pregnant I got, the fitter he got.”

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source: people.com