Yahoo Lifestyle Kelly Ripa Shares Candid Look at Her Post-Sobriety Weight-Gain
Kelly Ripa is getting candid about gaining weight after cutting alcohol out of her diet.
Ripa, 54, opened up about the subject during the Wednesday, Jan. 22, episode of Live With Kelly and Mark while speaking with guest co-host Andy Cohen, who was filling in for Ripa's husband, Mark Consuelos.
Cohen, 56, explained that he expected "some" weight loss after giving up booze for the month of January but admitted that it hasn't "really happened yet," which prompted Ripa to share her experience with putting on a few pounds while abstaining from the sauce.
"I told you, when I quit drinking, I expected there to be this windfall of weight loss, because everybody’s like, ‘Well, you are gonna get too skinny, and you can’t afford to lose it,'” Ripa, who revealed she gained 12 pounds, told viewers.
“I don’t understand this magical weight loss,” Ripa continued, referencing how some people who give up alcohol lean out. “I think I just took to eating the sugars.”
Ripa previously revealed she gave up alcohol for good after doing a sober month with a group of girlfriends in 2020.
"I just never went back to it,” the All My Children alum told People in “Ryan [Seacrest] likes to blame himself for me stopping drinking, he’s like, ‘I got here and you stopped drinking.’ It really was not that.”
She added of her decision to stay alcohol-free, "It wasn’t even really a thought process. It felt great, I felt like I looked great, I felt like I didn’t feel hungover. Not that I was a heavy drinker—I wasn’t someone who got drunk—but even like two glasses of wine at a girl’s night out dinner; I would feel it the next morning.”
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