Although they have no problem sharing details about their own relationship, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos refuse to say anything about their children’s love lives.
During the June 6 episode of Live With Kelly and Mark, the married co-hosts were chatting about arranged marriages.
“Well, listen to this,” Kelly Ripa told Mark Consuelos. “The Indian Matchmaking show sort of brought it to the forefront in showing people what the arranged marriages thing is sort of all about. So the national divorce average is around 50%. Arranged marriage divorce rate is 4%. So parents know what they’re talking about.”
Consuelo, who shares Michael, Lola, and Joaquin with Ripa, asked her, “Would we do that for our kids?”
Responding, Kelly Ripa told Mark Consuelo and the audience, “I think we would select the kids that our kids are with, we would select those kids. If I could have hand-selected them… but I don’t want to say that.”
Ripa then spoke about the difficulty of steering kids in the “right” direction. “You don’t want to say too much, ’cause you know how that goes. So you have to act different.”
The couple then said the best thing they can do is “say nothing” when it comes to their children’s love lives. “Yeah if you don’t like somebody your child is with and you express that, they dig in,” Ripa pointed out. “But if you like them too much then it’s like, ‘Hmm… why does my mom like them.’ So we say nothing.”
Kelly Ripa Previously Revealed Her Children Have Blocked Her on Social Media
In April 2023, Kelly Ripa opened up about how her children have blocked her and Mark Consuelos off their social media accounts.
“When you have a news feed and it says ‘Suggest more or suggest this, like this or block this channel,’ I’m certain they have blocked any channel with any mention of our names,” Ripa explained to E! News. “Just like they block us on social media. They block us any way they can.”
Kelly Ripa further explained that the kids’ move to block her and Mark Consuelos is a form of “self-preservation.”
“They’re in a whole ‘nother subculture,’” she said. “They’re like, ‘What do you mean? What are you guys doing?’ They have no idea.”
Ripa then said, “Each kid, through different periods of time in their lives, go through a stage like, ‘Don’t talk about us or I’d rather not be a subject.”