Kelly Ripa slammed viewers who were left ‘offended’ when she discussed an intimate item on the latest episode of Live With Kelly And Mark.
The 54-year-old TV personality, joined by her co-host and husband Mark Consuelos, delved into the topic of bras during Wednesday’s episode of their morning talk show.
It comes shortly after it was revealed why the couple separately missed multiple days of filming episodes.
‘Bras! Bras, everyone,’ she announced to the live audience at one point. ‘Bras are older than you think. And I don’t mean just my bra. I mean bras.’
Mark playfully asked Kelly about the ‘average age’ of her bras, leading her to humorously confess, ‘Thousands of years. My bras last forever because they don’t endure much wear and tear.’
She jokingly explained, ‘I don’t demand much from them, if you catch my drift. Essentially, I wear a bra to secure my microphone.’
Kelly Ripa, 54, playfully criticized viewers who were ‘offended’ when she talked about a personal item on the recent Live With Kelly And Mark episode; pictured in March in Hollywood.
‘Bras! Bras, everyone,’ she announced to the live audience at one point. ‘Bras are older than you think. And I don’t mean just my bra. I mean bras’
‘That is why I wear a bra, not to hold anything else, because there’s nothing else there.’
Kelly then added to the laughing crowd, ‘And I don’t care if you’re offended. Shut it.’
The star further explained, ‘That is why I wear a bra, just to put a microphone on. So, I don’t ask a lot.’
Mark kept the conversation going by telling the talk show host, ‘I used to like the ones that had the little snaps in the front.’
Kelly let out a laugh of her own as she turned towards her husband and playfully tapped his arm before saying, ‘Yeah.’
She also confessed to the audience that Mark ‘was very good’ when it came to handling those bra styles.
‘I was really impressed,’ Kelly mentioned. ‘I thought, “Wow. This guy knows his way around a bra.”‘ The Riverdale star compared today’s bras she wears to ‘tank tops.’
The conversation wrapped up with her sharing some history about bras, noting that the intimate garments generate $90 billion in sales annually.
She humorously continued, ‘I’m not asking a lot of them, if you know what I’m saying. You know what I mean? Basically, I wear a bra to hold my microphone on’
Kelly then added to the laughing crowd, ‘And I don’t care if you’re offended. Shut it’
She also confessed to the audience that Mark ‘was very good’ when it came to handling those style of bras
‘I keep thinking – ’cause I buy a lot of bras – not that I ever wear them, I just buy them,’ Kelly said. ‘Cause I’m like, “This one will change my life.” And it just sits in the plastic bag it came in.’
The star has previously opened up about going to consultations to possibly get a breast augmentation, but has chosen to not undergo the procedure.
During an appearance on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast last month in July, she expressed, ‘I have no boobs.’
Kelly continued, ‘We know that I’m flat-chested. It’s not a mystery at this point. I’ve gone to more breast augmentation consults than I would like to admit. Every time I hear about the new boob guy, I go and I have a consult.’
However, the star explained that she has heard about ‘so many horror stories of boob jobs’ on her phone through social media.
But earlier this year in February, Kelly revealed that she was interested in getting a ‘mini facelift’ in the future.
During an episode of her Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast at the time, she also expressed that she gets Botox injections ‘three times a year.’
She said, ‘I’m a minimalist…I do the crow’s feet and I do the neck and that’s it. I do it now three times a year.’
The star has previously opened up about going to consultations to possibly get a breast augmentation, but has chosen to not undergo the procedure
She said, ‘I’m a minimalist…I do the crow’s feet and I do the neck and that’s it. I do it now three times a year’
Kelly began hosting with her husband Mark on Live back in 2023 when the actor replaced her former co-host Ryan Seacrest.
However, the pair recently had separate absences on the morning talk show – with the very simple reason now revealed.
Kelly embarked on a summer trip, leaving her husband to be joined by guest co-hosts such as Jenna Dewan.
But Mark was also missing from a few recent episodes, which Kelly explained was due to the actor ‘working on a show out in LA.’
The couple tied the knot in 1996 and are parents to three children: Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22.
‘We don’t really see each other very much, believe it or not,’ Kelly told E! News last month in July; seen in July in NYC
‘It just seems that way because when you see us, we’re on TV together. But we’re not really that.’
She added, ‘We work together in the morning, and then we really have very separate schedules and very separate lives. Our interests outside of our talk show in the morning are really quite different from each other.’
However, the star explained, ‘We do come together at night. We have a nice dinner, a nice meal together.’
