Kelly Ripa And Mark Consuelos Reveal Their NSFW Empty Nest Dress Code

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos reside their finest and boldest lives now that their youngsters have flown the coop, they usually’re not shy in regards to the NSFW perks of an empty nest.

The couple, each 54, opened up on Monday’s episode of “Dwell with Kelly and Mark” about how issues have modified at house since their youngest youngster, Joaquin, moved out earlier this yr after graduating from the College of Michigan.

Spoiler alert: Kelly Ripa has so much much less laundry.

Talking to visitor Amanda Peet, who was getting emotional over her personal youngster leaving for faculty, Kelly provided some sudden consolation.

“The primary one is sort of a little bit of a shock. Each, the second it’s like no huge deal, third one for twenty-four to 48 hours, you’re gonna be like, ‘Oh my gosh, what have we finished? Now it’s simply us,'” she stated. “After which your whole life turns into nudity within the family wherever you need.”

Mark didn’t hesitate to verify the shift. “It’s a freak present,” he stated.

“Complete freak present,” Kelly added with amusing.

The longtime couple shares three kids. Michael, 27, and Lola, 23, who’re each NYU graduates, and Joaquin, 22, who lately accomplished his school journey at Michigan. Whereas they’ve absolutely embraced their new freedom, Kelly and Mark admit the transition wasn’t precisely seamless.

Again in 2021, shortly after dropping Joaquin off in school, Kelly described the expertise as “actually laborious.”

Mark, too, felt the burden of the change, later telling PEOPLE in a joint 2023 interview that it felt like “a loss.”

“The primary dinner I cooked, I’m not kidding, was for 12 individuals, and it was simply the 2 of us,” Kelly recalled. “We sat there with this inordinate quantity of meals, neither certainly one of us hungry in any respect.”

Kelly additionally admitted she initially nervous they wouldn’t have sufficient to speak about as a pair, however that worry shortly pale.

“The primary 48 hours, we had been leaning into the despair, after which we actually leaned into the constructive facet,” she stated. “We bought over it!”

After all, longtime followers of the couple know that Kelly and Mark have never shied away from candidly discussing their love life, together with the, let’s say, artistic locations they’ve gotten frisky through the years.

“I’ve bought to let you know one thing. I did one thing backstage that was so inappropriate that, if we weren’t married, I might in all probability be fired proper now,” Ripa joked throughout a July 2024 episode. “However, I’ve to elucidate myself. I began on the shirt, and I used to be like, ‘I actually love this shirt, I feel it’s beautiful on you.’”

Consuelos revealed that after Ripa complimented him, he playfully inspired her to really feel his pants.

“I felt his pants, they usually really feel good. However, I used to be like, ‘My gosh, your thighs really feel like they’re made out of steel or stone.’ Marble! Carved out of marble,” she stated. “I’m backstage rubbing up and down his thighs, like, it doesn’t even appear doable. I notice individuals are taking a look at us like, ‘Are you OK? Do you neglect that you just’re in a administrative center?’ And, sure is the reply!”

Throughout a January 2023 episode of “Dwell with Kelly and Ryan,” Consuelos revealed that their daughter Lola had quickly moved again in for her ultimate semester of faculty. And together with her return got here somewhat an excessive amount of informal closeness.

“She’s so excited to be dwelling with us once more as a result of it is her final semester in school,” Consuelos stated. “She’s not going again to her condominium, she’s staying with us. And you realize what she does now? The door’s closed in our bed room, no knock, she simply walks in and says, ‘Hey ladies!'”

That led to an essential sit-down second between dad and mom and daughter.