Kelly Ripa needs to make her long term funeral simple for her husband, Mark Consuelos.
“I’m so fearful if he has to eulogize me,” Ripa, 53, stated at the Friday, January 12, episode in their joint communicate display Are living With Kelly and Mark. “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.”
Consuelos, 52, chimed in to warn his partner towards teasing his memorial choices. “Hey, watch out because I’m going to have to dress you as well,” he jokingly stated. “You better be nice now or I’m going to put you in something crazy!”
Ripa wasn’t fearful via Consuelos’ threats since she already is aware of what outfit she needs to be buried in.
“It’s a Dolce & Gabbana black dress. It’s 10 years old. It’s elegant, it’s gorgeous, it’s black, it’s adorable,” Ripa gushed, noting the frock is these days placing up in her closet with a label on it.
The controversy display host up to now defined her resolution to pick her personal funeral get dressed right through a March 2016 episode of Are living.
“The only reason I thought about what I wanted to be buried in is because I once passed out … after I had my first child,” she recalled, relating to son Michael. “I passed out and my husband called 911 — and I was naked when I passed out. And in that time [before the paramedics arrived], he dressed me. 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.”
Ripa jokingly famous that she would have “rather [been] dead right now” than have the general public see her within the outfit that Consuelos selected for her, which took place to be a couple of his sweatpants worn over a inexperienced leotard and finished with a couple 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 added. “And that made me a priority [in the E.R.] and why I picked out my funeral clothes.”
Ripa and Consuelos met at the set of All My Youngsters, the place they performed love pursuits, in 1995. They eloped 12 months later earlier than welcoming 3 youngsters: Michael, 26, Lola, 22, and Joaquin, 20.
After twenty years of marriage, information broke in February 2023 that Consuelos would sign up for Ripa because the cohost of Are living. Ripa, in the meantime, has anchored the morning display since 2001.