Kelly Ripa has opened up about her wild re-entry after the holidays.
“I woke up this morning and I was so confused,” Ripa explained while sitting next to her husband and co-anchor Mark Consuelos at the beginning of her first show of 2026, “Live! With Kelly and Mark.”
“We were on vacation and I didn’t know where I was. I don’t want to wake up, so I started getting ready a little bit in the dark. I don’t like lighting up my room. I don’t like lighting up my bedroom when I start putting on makeup,” she further said.
The 55-year-old continued, “So I reach for my foundation stick and start applying it. And something doesn’t look right, but somehow I keep going. I just keep applying more and more and more.”
“And if I look weird to you this morning, it’s because I had contour all over my face,” she concluded.
Consuelos, her eternally supportive partner, immediately told her, “You look great!”
“Yeah, I look great,” she admitted, but added, “I look like I’ve been somewhere. People go, ‘Oh, you look tanned.'” it’s not. I used contour stick as foundation. ”
A true professional, Ripa has always been upfront about her mistakes and has learned to roll with the punches. Ahead of the Christmas holidays, the two opened the show with the actress adjusting her wardrobe.
“I’m still getting dressed,” she told the audience, adding, “Guys, I’m not going to lie, 10 seconds ago I wasn’t wearing any clothes at all. And now I’m like half dressed.”
“Look, it’s okay. We’re all in this together,” she added, “I think my fly is up, we’re okay, we’re okay. We made it somehow.”
