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, and so they’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 dwelling since their youngest baby, Joaquin, moved out earlier this yr after graduating from the College of Michigan.

Spoiler alert: Kelly Ripa has rather a lot much less laundry.

Chatting with visitor Amanda Peet, who was getting emotional over her personal baby leaving for school, Kelly provided some surprising consolation.

“The primary one is sort of a little bit of a shock. Every one, 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 accomplished? Now it’s simply us,'” she stated. “After which your total life turns into nudity within the family wherever you need.”

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

“Whole freak present,” Kelly added with fun.

The longtime couple shares three youngsters. Michael, 27, and Lola, 23, who’re each NYU graduates, and Joaquin, 22, who just 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 at college, Kelly described the expertise as “actually arduous.”

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 folks, and it was simply the 2 of us,” Kelly recalled. “We sat there with this inordinate quantity of meals, neither one in every of us hungry in any respect.”

Kelly additionally admitted she initially fearful they wouldn’t have sufficient to speak about as a pair, however that concern rapidly light.

“The primary 48 hours, we had been leaning into the despair, after which we actually leaned into the optimistic aspect,” she stated. “We acquired 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 acquired to inform you 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 clarify myself. I began on the shirt, and I used to be like, ‘I actually love this shirt, I believe it’s attractive on you.’”

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

“I felt his pants, and so they really feel good. However, I used to be like, ‘My gosh, your thighs really feel like they’re made out of metallic 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 persons are taking a look at us like, ‘Are you OK? Do you neglect that you simply’re in a place of job?’ 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 last semester of school. And together with her return got here a little bit an excessive amount of informal closeness.

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

That led to an vital sit-down second between mother and father and daughter.