Kelly Ripa Discusses Getting A Gray Divorce With Mark Consuelos On Air.
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00:00I was reading this article and I started talking to Mark about it and Mark got very defensive.
00:07Kelly Ripa brings up a touchy subject on Live with Kelly and Mark.
00:12During the October 11th episode of her daytime show that she co-hosts with her husband,
00:18Mark Consuelos, the 54-year-old brings up the idea of divorce
00:22live on air and reveals that she might want a, quote, gray divorce.
00:27Do you know what gray divorces are? No?
00:30Well you came, you came home, you came home from the trip and you're like,
00:33I read this amazing article. I go, tell me about it.
00:36I didn't say amazing, I said fascinating. Fascinating.
00:38Fascinating article. And I go, what's it called?
00:41She goes, the astonishing rise of gray divorce. I'm like, do tell.
00:47So it's, these are people that get divorced, you know, in their 50s.
00:51Yeah. Like it's like after or later.
00:53Like when, when you think that you're beyond, you know,
00:57you're beyond the vulnerability portion of your life where you're like,
01:01I'm married, I've been married for 182 years. He's not going anywhere.
01:06Kelly then explains what happens during a gray divorce
01:09and some of the things that contribute to a couple separating.
01:12But it seems like the husband and wife duo might not be able to fully relate.
01:17They're saying that empty nest syndrome can contribute to that.
01:21That's a real thing.
01:22Relationships are so built upon the children that once the children leave.
01:27Right.
01:27The couple finds that they no longer have anything in common.
01:33We still have a lot in common.
01:36Okay.
01:38I don't even know who you are anymore.
01:40I don't even know.
01:41Who are you?
01:42I come to work and it's like, I'm married to a stranger.
01:45Who are you?
01:46Health problems in sickness and in health.
01:48Some people say no, not sit in sickness.
01:52You would take care of me, though.
01:55Change my diapers.
01:56Of course I would.
01:58Of course I would.
02:00It's gonna happen.
02:01Of course I will.
02:02I do it all the time.
02:04While it appears Kelly and Mark, who share kids Michael, Lola and Joaquin,
02:10aren't actually pondering a divorce of any kind,
02:13Kelly admits the narrator of the article was so fascinating that she thought,
02:18Oh, I want one.
02:19I listened to it.
02:21It was an article that was on audio and you really have to hear it read to you
02:27because there's something about the narrator's voice that I find very funny.
02:30Oh, really?
02:31Yes.
02:32They're like, the astonishing rise of the gray divorce.
02:36And I was like, Oh, I want one.
02:38Like it sounds, you know, it sounds like something amazing.
02:42And then, and then you realize, Oh, this is very dark subject matter.
02:46But the voice of the narrator is so soothing.
02:49And the two have made no question of how much they love each other,
02:53with Mark even giving a very special shout out to Kelly for her recent birthday.
02:58Posting to Instagram a cute montage of throwback pics of his wife,
03:02he wrote in the caption,
03:04Happy birthday, sexy. I'm so glad you were born.
03:07What a beautiful sprint around the sun. The best is yet to come.
03:12P.S. I promise not to snore so much this year.