Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos' Enviable Love Story: How the Former Soap Opera Sweethearts Keep It Spicy and Sane After 22 Years
All sorts of things had to go right—or wrong—for Kelly Ripato end up meeting Mark Consuelos.
It was 1993 and Ripa had been on All My Children for three years, playing Hayley Vaughan—first as a teen in a black wig, then as a young woman who couldnt steer clear of trouble if her life (or contract) depended on it.
Hayleys first big love interest, Brian, was played by Matt Borlenghi, and while drama was written into the script, it was translating behind the scenes as well. One time, a reporter on set heard screaming and furniture crashing down the hall.
A makeup guy said, Oh, thats just Kelly and Matt rehearsing. In reality, we were in her dressing room having an argument, Borlenghi recalled to Variety in 2015.
I was taking myself way too seriously and I asked Kelly, how did you get so lucky to be on this show? Nice. No wonder Hayleys father broke up their engagement!.
It turns out it would have been a lot easier on me if I had followed her path and just had more fun at work, Borlenghi said.
But if I hadnt left, maybe she never would have met Mark. Consuelos was a recent college grad and newly arrived in New York when he auditioned for AMC in 1995. with Ripa as his screen test partner.
He obviously aced the chemistry test and scored the role of Mateo Santos, who was destined to be the the man in Hayleys life, no matter the infinite complications thrown in their way.
My main focus was getting the job and I couldnt believe my luck, having been in New York for five minutes, Consuelos recalled in an interview with E! in 2006.
He continued, My first impression of my wife was—she was obviously extremely beautiful—but she was really funny, really intelligent, really quick.
I realized that if I was ever to get into an argument with her, I would lose every single time. He also described his wife, of 10 years at the time, as always very, very real and pretty vulnerable as someone who was willing to put herself out there, and extremely sexy. Despite an initial attraction to Mateo, Hayley had a few other doomed relationships to cycle through before they could finally be together. .
Far less complicated was the relationship growing between the actors off-camera. We fell in love long before our characters fell in love.but we were around each other a lot, Consuelos said.
Theyd go on safe dates, in groups, during which they had a chance to size each other up. If he had to name just one thing he fell in love with early on, Consuelos told E!, it was her extreme generosity in how she treated him and others.
Ive never really met anybody like that.
Shes really a good person. He laughed recalling when the two were photographed together in Jamaica not long after they started dating, which everyone thought at the time was the big reveal of them as a couple.
In reality, they were in Jamaica shooting All My Children—and they were arguing. We had already gone full circle [as a couple], Consuelos joked.
I mean, we got married a few months later. But for everyone who thought that was the trip that brought them together, they couldnt be further from the truth..
Consuelos ended up popping the question over pizza and wine—and the next thing you know, were on a plane to Vegas the next morning. So barely a year after meeting, before Hayley could even extract herself from her forced marriage to Alec, Ripa and Consuelos eloped. They married on May 1, 1996, at a little chapel they found in the phone book, then honeymooned in Rome and Capri for a week. Loath to share their secret at first, they soon acquired Tiffany wedding bands and made plans to hold a small Catholic ceremony that their loved ones could witness (which may not have ever happened, though they had three weddings on All My Children).
The newlyweds sat down for their first interview as husband and wife with Soap Opera digest in August 1996. Asked when they fell in love, Consuelos said, As far as Im concerned, instantly—before we ever had a scene together.
Weve been spending 12 hours a day together for the past year and a half. We just understood each other really well, Ripa added. If two people were ever supposed to be together, Id say it was us..
And theyve been proving it ever since. Thirteen months after tying the knot, they welcomed son Michael, whose godmother is his parents former AMC co-star Eva LaRue. Daughter Lola was born in 2001 and they had son Joaquin in 2003.
It all began with All My Children, Ripa recalled in 2015 when she got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
All My Children is where I met the man that Ive been married to for almost 20 years, the love of my life, the man who taught me how to be a person—really, a real person—and we have three of the most beautiful children, that Im so proud of, on the planet. So there you have it.
They saw Michael off to college in 2016, and theyll have their 22nd wedding anniversary this May 1.
Life couldnt be sweeter for the couple who probably used to have a lot of laughs at night thinking about the ridiculous plot twists their AMC alter egos were living through. And yet Hayley and Mateo were also meant to be.
We imagine AMC fans wouldve strenuously objected to an unhappy ending for the devoted duo, who welcomed an onscreen son, Lorenzo, before eventually moving away from Pine Valley together. But its not as though 22 years have just flown by without any complications.
Life must have gotten in the way at some point for the couple who first acquired cell phones so they could stay in constant communication (and which Ripa formally referred to at the time as cellular phones).
The only time I notice stress in our relationship is when Im not with her, Consuelos told Soap Opera Digest in 1996. Im like, Where is she? Where is my right hand?.
One of the ways theyve battled back against the demands of their respective careers has been their enjoyment of working together and collaborating on projects.
They both remained on All My Children until 2001—and both returned for a couple of episodes in 2010. Consuelos had a guest arc on Ripas sitcom Hope & Faith. Hes been a favorite guest host on Live over the years. And in 2007, they formed their own production company, Milojo, utilizing the first two letters of each of their kids names.
Milojo was behind the E! series Dirty Soap, the inner workings of a soap opera being a subject the couple was intimately familiar with.
Asked why they had turned to producing, Consuelos told E! News, So we can be the bosses. His answer sent his wife into giddy hysterics. Yes, the goal is to eventually get off camera, some day.
Because as you can see, we are not gorgeous like soap stars are, Ripa said. Yeah, those guys are really good looking, Consuelos agreed.
Some might disagree with Ripas assessment of the couples aesthetic appeal, which in reality, especially now without the 90s-era hairdos, remains impressive.
Talking about how soap stars tend to date each other because they spend so much time together on set, Ripa said of her and Consuelos, We were the only people we knew. Which is pretty much the only reason we got married, cause we didnt know anybody else, he shrugged.
Shhh, Ripa shushed him, developing another fit of giggles. Thats not true.Im sure its not true. I mean, it might be true.
But look, its worked out! Its evident every time theyre together onscreen that they continue to make each other laugh. They also still have things in common (not including Consuelos sports-watching habit), and theyve nailed that whole truly-liking-each-other thing. Its a very typical, normal relationship, Consuelos also told E! at the 10-year mark in 2006.
We have, you know, ups and downs just like anybody else. He suspected that, if you asked Ripa, she could point out a few moments in their marriage where it couldve gone either way. But I think I made a really good decision. He smiled.
As she told AOL.com in 2015, The phrase this too shall pass is such an important phrase when youre in your early wedding years.
Every argument, every disagreement, seems like the end of the universe and it really isnt. She also advised, in Good Housekeeping in 2010, Dont be a bottler; youll explode. If something bothers me, I just say it, no harm, no foul.
So much of marriage is ego-based—whos right, who wins the argument. Mark and I dont really have that. Two years later she told the magazine, I think he would say that I talk too much—endlessly.
If the two of us go out to dinner, I feel the need to talk. He thinks we can sit and enjoy the ambience of the room—just have a cocktail and bask in each others glow.
I feel the need to hash things out: Can you believe what our kids did today? I feel like youre not listening to me.
Are you listening to me? Im entirely too verbal with him. But even as the cute marital anecdotes have been largely replaced by funny stories about raising three kids (and then three teenagers) and the wisdom that comes with being married for years, the couple remain refreshingly hot for each other.
We carve out time for ourselves, Ripa told Good Housekeeping in 2010.
I think that were better parents because date night gives us something to look forward to, a night where were not saying, Put that down, stop touching her, dont spill that. Sometimes well put the kids to bed early and watch Jersey Shore on DVR.
It can be that simple, just the two of us, alone, one day a week, for dinner and hijinks. She reiterated the sentiment in 2014.
Lots of sex is key, Ripa said on Watch What Happens Live, noting that youre either doing it a lot or, simply, youre not. We just like each other a lot, she explained. I love my husband. I think hes awesome.
Weve been together a really long time. We try to do spicy things together all the time. Those cellular phones, for instance, eventually became useful for sexting. I sent him a cute, adorable butt selfie in my underpants, Ripa revealed.
Its the only time Ive ever sent a semi-nude anything, ever! (Never mind that she accidentally sent it to her mother and father-in-law as well.
Happens to the best of us.) Ripa, who relishes sharing stories about her kids with her audience, has also stressed the importance of being on the same page with Consuelos as parents.
We are a united front, she told Redbook in 2014. Our kids try, and they all try to divide and conquer, so even if we disagree we dont do it in front of the kids. Aside from the laughter, and the shared values.Ripa and Consuelos know that its the little things that keep a marriage more than merely chugging along, so they also work at keeping the romance alive.
During their 20th anniversary getaway to Turks and Caicos (which—from the nothings-perfect department—ironically happened right in the middle of the turmoil at Live when Michael Strahan announced he was leaving in April 2016), Ripa donned the slip dress she wore at their Vegas wedding. It still fit like a glove.
The dress is 25 years old. My marriage is 20 years old. I didnt buy it as a wedding dress.
I just bought it because it was really pretty, and I wanted to buy something from the Barneys Warehouse sale, Ripa said, showing off some old snapshots from their low-key big day on Live.
With Consuelos now playing Veronicas dad on Riverdale, Ripa helps lessen the time apart by joining her husband in Vancouver, where the CW series shoots, when she can. And when duty calls back in New York, she remains his No.
Hes living his best life. He is in Vancouver. Hes never looked better. He is having the best time ever, Ripa gushed about her husband to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in October.
The whole family was together for Christmas last month, of course, a holiday at home that resulted in a slew of cozy-looking pictures of the couple and their kids, and the dog.
And the couple have done the whole long-distance thing before, so neither one is fazed by competing schedules. Were actors, Ripa told People in 2015 when she was in New York and Consuelos was out in L.A.
shooting the Fox series Pitch. Weve done it for years.
Its actually something were quite good at. Theyre also pros, by now, at riding out the bumps in the road. Theres going to be times where you look at each other like I cant believe I live with you, Ripa told AOL.com in 2015, but open communication and strong listening skills can help carry you through hard times.
Thats what you want in life, to have a good companion, somebody that loves you, that listens to you and is your equal in every way. And then theres that laughter.
While Consuelos was co-hosting Live in June 2016, they had each other in stitches while discussing Ripas expectations should something happen to her and Consuelos gets remarried. I would never get remarried, first of all, he said.
No, Ive had all the fun one mans going to have! With that, they both lost it. Ive had enough! he exclaimed.
Ripa, meanwhile, has also admitted that they just got really, really lucky early on in their lives. Were very lucky that we found each other, thats what I have to say, she told AOL.
I would say to Mark, Who would we have married if not each other?. For more on the key ingredients that have gone into Kelly and Marks enduring marriage, tune into E! News tonight at 7 & 11 p.
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