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Kelly Ripais always one step ahead when it comes to her wardrobe.
On Friday’s episode ofLive with Kelly & Mark,the co-host, 53, shared how she keeps a dress in the back of her closet for her funeral so that her husband and co-hostMark Consuelos, 52, doesn’t dress her in something “crazy.”
“I’m so fearful if he has to eulogize me,” Ripa, whocelebrated her 27th anniversarywith Consuelos in 2023, said on the show. “First of all, at the funeral, it’ll be a buffet of all my least-favorite things. It’ll be deviled eggs, it’ll be chicken wings, it’ll be glasses of milk.”
“Hey, watch out because I’m going to have to dress you as well,” Consuelos replied. “You better be nice now, or I’m going to put you in something crazy!” he continued.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos attend “Live with Kelly and Mark” at PaleyFest NY 2023 at The Paley Museum on October 11, 2023 in New York City.Roy Rochlin/Getty
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Ripa went on to tell Mark that she’s already got the outfit for that day under control. She added: “Let me remind you where the outfit hangs. It is labeled and Lauren knows about it. It’s a Dolce & Gabbana black dress. It’s 10 years old. It’s elegant, it’s gorgeous, it’s black, it’s adorable.”
elly Ripa and Marc Consuelous attend the 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 29, 2023 in Washington, DC.Paul Morigi/Getty Images
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“I was naked when I passed out,” Ripa said. “And in that time, he dressed me. And as they were putting me on a stretcher I remember pulling the sheet over my head because I didn’t want people to see me dressed this way.”
“They kept pulling the sheet down, that means you’re dead. And I’m like, please, I would rather be dead right now.”
Ripa goes on to share that her husband dressed her in a green leotard, his black sweatpants that you rip off and red pumps. When she arrived at the hospital nurses determined she must be unwell because of the way she was dressed. “That’s why I picked out my funeral clothes,” she added.
Live with Kelly and Markairs weekdays on ABC (check local listings).
source: people.com
