Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have been married for nearly 30 years, but they don’t necessarily see eye to eye when it comes to sex. During her appearance on Amanda Hirsch’s Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, Kelly got candid about her sex life and revealed that she finds morning sex “disgusting.” Meanwhile, her husband “only” wants to be physically intimate in the morning.
Timing is clearly important for Kelly.
When explaining their very different preferences, Kelly made her stance extremely clear: She finds morning sex “repulsive.” Luckily, working on a morning talk show, Live With Kelly and Mark, with her husband has come with an unexpected advantage. “The greatest thing about this job, this thing has like, almost repulsed him from morning time during the work week,” she said. “Which is like a miracle.”
Jokingly, she added that she hopes the show continues for years for this exact reason. “May this show last until he suffers from erectile dysfunction,” she said.
Kelly explained why she finds her husband’s preferences ‘disgusting.’
Though her husband really enjoys morning sex, Kelly doesn’t understand it. To her, there’s nothing sexy about intimate moments in the morning. “I have a retainer in. I gotta rip that out,” she explained on the podcast. “And he’s got his nasal strips on. It’s like we are the most repulsive, disgusting (people).”
Mark doesn’t seem bothered by any of these things, though. Kelly has concluded that “he’s never going to learn” because “he’s a guy” and his “d— has a brain of its own.”
She’s talked to him about this issue before.
Kelly made it clear that she’s looking for more balance, meaning that she’d like to have sex at night at least some of the time. “I said to him, ‘Here’s the thing,'” she said. “There needs to be a yin and a yang here. It can’t always be your way. It feels like 90 percent of the time it’s your way, and now that we work together every day, it’s gonna have to sometimes be my way. And my way’s at night only.'”
But knowing that her husband’s preferences haven’t changed, Kelly said she’s “already pre-disgusted for tomorrow morning.”
Kelly recently shared some relatable marriage advice.
Though their preferences and expectations clearly differ in some ways, Kelly and Mark have made their marriage work for nearly 30 years. In May 2025, Kelly shared some advice for newly married couples that many others could relate to, and also admitted that marriage could be difficult at times.
“The first year of marriage for us was the worst,” she said at the time. “Like, it was really hard. We discovered things about each other, like ‘Oh my god, he breathes and it sounds irritating to me!’ … So you have to just not panic because you’ll settle into each other. A lot of people find the first year insurmountable and then it sort of deteriorates.”
