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Kelly Ripais taking a walk down memory lane.
On Thursday, theLive with Kelly and Ryanco-host, 50, shared a throwback photo of herself and husbandMark Consuelosrevisiting the Chapel of the Bells in Las Vegas, the wedding venue where they had eloped on May 1, 1996.
The picture was taken in 2009, when “we took the kids to the scene of crime 13 years later,” the mother of three — who shares daughterLola, 19, and sonsMichael, 23, andJoaquin, 18, with Consuelos, 50 — joked the caption.
“(Also, this is why i take all the photos),” Ripa added, addressing the snapshot’s blurry quality.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.kelly ripa/instagram
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Ripa and Consuelos met while working together onAll My Childrenin the ’90s. The couple dated for a year before getting tying the knot — though, according to Ripa, they hadbriefly called it quits before the nuptials.
“We broke up the week before we got married … He popped the question the day before we got married, but that day, that very day that we got back together, we were at a taping ofRegis and Kathie Lee,” she recalled “It was their Mother’s Day special. They were pretaping it, and one of the dreams of one of the mothers was to meet Mark and me. We were her favorite characters onAll My Children.”
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Though Ripa and Consuelos had an unconventional trip to the alter, the pair recently admitted that some aspects of their relationship could be considered"almost old-fashioned."
“She makes the home a home,” theRiverdaleactor said of his wife during an appearance on theDouble Datepodcast.
“What’s funny is I think of us as such a progressive as a couple. I always think of us as politically progressive … we’re progressive people,” Ripa said. “And yet, when it comes to our own family and our marriage and our roles, I think of us as very traditional and almost old-fashioned in our roles.”
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According to the star, her long-running daytime talk show job has helped cement a steady home life for their kids while Consuelos travels for work.
“In that way, we’re very traditional,” Ripa explained. “He made those sacrifices, but I think he wouldn’t know how to find a ballet class. He wouldn’t know how to go about signing the kids up for religion classes.”
source: people.com
