Mark Consuelos, Kelly Ripa, and Lola Consuelos.Photo: Kelly Ripa/instagram
It’s another year of love and laughter forKelly RipaandMark Consuelos.
“Best husband ever,” Ripa wrote, tagging Consuelos’ Instagram handle. “Ever! Best father also!”
The lovebirds have multiple reasons to celebrate this month: February is also when they first met nearly three decades ago.
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Earlier this month, Ripa revealed that her husband hadsurprised her with a bouquet of roses to celebrate the 26th anniversaryof the day they first met.
“So sweet. Isn’t that sweet?” Ripa gushed. “He brought me five roses. I’m really not sure the significance of the five roses. I didn’t want to split hairs, but I thought it was really sweet.”
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Consuelos was visiting New York from Toronto, where he filmsRiverdale.Ripa said he had shown up outside the gym without warning and gifted her the flowers unexpectedly, as she was exiting.
“He had flowers for me, and he said, ‘I have to tell you something. It dawned on me as I was flying home, that today is 26 years to the day since we met,’ ‘ Ripa added. “Isn’t that crazy? I said, ‘You are kidding me, how did you know that?’ He goes, ‘I worked it out in my head.’ “
Ripa met Conseulos in 1994 at his screen test forAll My Children.At the time, Ripa was playing Hayley Vaughan on the ABC soap opera. Conseulos was auditioning for Mateo Santos, Haley’s love interest.
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Almost 30 years later, the celebrity couple has a loving marriage and three children: Lola, plus sons Michael, 22, and Joaquin, 16.
“You’re going to fight, you’re going to have disagreements. Relationships, marriages are not sprints, it’s a marathon,” she said in January. “There’s going to be like, mile 24, when you’re like, ‘I quit.’ But you just got to push through. Just push through.”
source: people.com
