Kelly Ripa is more or less the homecoming queen of daytime TV.
At the time, Linda was seven months pregnant, and her son went into a coma in utero.
The baby was born nearly seven weeks premature.
The accident left Linda with lingering medical issues, including chronic pain and a disfigured foot.
She went on to add that Linda’s injuries had seriously impacted her quality of life.
“She will never, ever know a normal life again.
And there’s nothing they can do,” Kelly said.
with co-host Regis Philbin, but her early days at the show were tough ones.
“We have a studio audience like 250 people!
and I have to queue up.
Particularly when I was pregnant, it was extraordinarily exhausting to have to wait in line …
It just seemed, you know, a very needlessly difficult situation,” she shared with Variety.
However, Ripa has faced her fair share of mental health issues, including depression and anxiety.
I feel like I’m in physical pain.
I have no energy at all."
“I cry in the shower.
I cry myself to sleep.
I sometimes want to cry in the middle of the show.
Sometimes I feel like I can’t breathe,” she wrote.
Ripa credits therapy with helping her cope, and providing her with a healthier outlook on her busy life.
What’s more, her therapist encouraged her to look out for herself.
She never knew she had the disease until it was too late," Ripa toldYahoo!in 2011.
Ripa also revealed that she and husband, Mark Consuelos, grappled with cancer within their families.
“Both my mother and Mark’s mother have both battled and overcome cancer,” Ripa shared.
Ripa has spoken at length about her children throughout her tenure on “Live!”
as she is clearly a very proud mom.
“I always feel guilty.
I think every working mother does have that guilt about failing in some way,” she told Yahoo!
Luckily, Ripa learned to let herself off the hook and maintain a healthy acceptance of her guilty feelings.
Nobody’s going to get hurt," she explained.
“We have consistency in our schedule.
with former New York Giants football player Michael Strahan.
However, Strahan’s departure from the show was kept secret from Ripa, something that hurt her deeply.
The move was yet another difficulty Ripa had to endure as the female co-host of “Live!”
I just think my ignorance in that situation wound up being my blessing and my superpower.
I did not have an easy time.”
Kelly Ripa was devastated by Regis Philbin’s death
Kelly Ripa’s original “Live!”
co-star was the legendary Regis Philbin.
“I don’t want to feel like I’m slamming anyone or that I’m being disrespectful.
But I also want people to know it was not a cakewalk,” she shared in her memoir.
More difficult still was the falling-out she and Philbin appeared to have following his departure from the show.
“you’re free to’t make a person befriend you,” she wrote.
When Philbin died in 2020 at the age of 88, Ripa was heartbroken.
Additionally, Callahan’s daughter and Ripa’s daughter had become great friends.
She referred to her friend as “a gentleman,” and talked about his sense of humor.
Ripa kept her composure, but apologized to viewers if she at all seemed off her game.
that audiences have basically witnessed her children grow up.
Ripa shared that her husband doubted college was in Joaquin’s future.
Kelly spoke about the experience on “Live!”
“It’s like being a trial lawyer, but you’re in a hospital,” she said.
“‘Are you hot?
Do you want dad to stop talking?'”
“My dad has missed his calling as a hairstylist.”
In April of 2023, Ripa began working with yet another new co-host: her husband.
However, when Consuelos became the official “Live!”
host, things got off to a rocky start.
Fans took to social media to air their opinions, and it was not pretty.
“I can go to the mall and watch teenagers kiss LESS!!!
NOT ‘bedtime eating & sleeping habits’ … or many other mundane things that were conversed about!”
“I’ve spent my life with him, I can do things with him for decades.”
