Kelly Ripa has never been one to shy away from TMI, and her latest beauty confession proves that no topic is off-limits. During a recent episode of her podcast, Let’s Talk Off Camera, the 55-year-old daytime host revealed she tried a popular skincare treatment on a rather unexpected area: her rear end.
Speaking with actor Lukas Gage on the March 31 episode, Ripa admitted to getting microneedling on her butt cheeks. The trendy cosmetic procedure—which utilizes fine needles to puncture the skin, stimulating collagen production to diminish scars, wrinkles, and stretch marks—is typically reserved for the face and neck. For Ripa, however, taking the treatment south didn't exactly yield the youthful results she was hoping for.
"I'm gonna tell you something," Ripa confessed to Gage regarding her backside. "Just as old as before."
She laughed off the unsuccessful beauty experiment, simply shrugging it off by adding, "Desperate times call for desperate measures."
This cheeky revelation is entirely par for the course for Ripa, who has built a brand around candidly discussing her personal life. That dynamic has only amplified since her husband of nearly three decades, Mark Consuelos, joined her at the Live With Kelly and Mark desk in 2023.
In fact, the couple regularly airs out their marital quirks in front of millions. Consuelos recently noted in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that he deliberately saves difficult conversations for their live audience. "When I’m really afraid to talk about something, I wait for the show," he explained. "That way I have safety in numbers. I’m in a safe space."
Ripa—who shares three adult children, Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 23, with Consuelos—whole-heartedly agrees with her husband's on-air strategy. "Why discuss it privately when I can bring it up in front of the audience?" she joked.
However, sharing the daytime stage does have its drawbacks. Consuelos recently admitted that their joint early-morning gig has effectively killed their morning romance routine, jokingly calling their exhausting work schedule "the antidote" to bedroom intimacy.