Kelly Ripa Keeps Her Funeral Dress Labeled so Mark Consuelos Doesn’t Dress Her in Something ‘Crazy’

Kelly Ripa is always one step ahead when it comes to her wardrobe.

In the episode from Friday Live with Kelly and Mark, co-host, 53, shared how she kept the dress in the back of her closet for her funeral so her husband and co-host Mark Consuelos, 52, wouldn’t dress her in something “crazy.”

“I’m so scared if he has to praise me,” Ripa, who celebrated her 27th anniversary with Consuelos in 2023, said on the show. “First of all, at the funeral, it’s going to be a buffet of all my least favorite things. It’s going to be deviled eggs, it’s going to be chicken wings, it’s going to be glasses of milk.”

“Hey, watch out because I’m going to have to dress you up too,” Consuelos replied. “You better be nice now or I’m going to get you into something crazy!” he continued.

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Ripa told Mark that she already had the outfit for the day under control. She added: “Let me remind you where the clothes are hanging. It’s labeled and Lauren knows about it. It’s a black Dolce & Gabbana dress. It’s 10 years old. It’s elegant, beautiful, black, adorable.”

In 2016, Ripa shared more about it He lives with Kelly and Michael about why she decided to separate clothes for her funeral. In the show, she explained that she fainted after the birth of her first child. Afterward, Consuelos called 9-1-1.

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“I was naked when I passed out,” Ripa said. “And during that time he dressed me. And while they were putting me on the stretcher, I remember pulling a sheet over my head because I didn’t want people to see me dressed like this.”

“They kept pulling the sheet down, that means you’re dead. And I’m like, please, I’d rather be dead right now.”

Ripa goes on to say that her husband dressed her in a green leotard, his black sweatpants that you tear off, and red shoes. When she arrived at the hospital, the nurses found her unwell because of the way she was dressed. “That’s why I chose my funeral clothes,” she added.

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