Kelly Ripa Shares How Life at Dwelling Modifications as an Empty Nester

Kelly Ripa thinks there are some positives in relation to being an empty nester. 

Through the Monday, Could 26, episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, the married daytime discuss present hosts, each 54, did their greatest to guarantee visitor Amanda Peet that she will likely be okay when her daughter goes off to varsity this fall. 

“I don’t wanna cry,” the Your Pals & Neighbors actress, 53, stated when requested about her oldest going to varsity quickly.

Peet and her husband, David Benioff, share three youngsters: Henry, 10, Molly, 14, and Frances, 18.

Peet stated Frances will likely be going “very distant” to the “reverse coast.”

“Let me simply say this,” Ripa stated. “The primary one is sort of a little bit of a shock. Every one, like the second, is like, no huge deal. Third one, for twenty-four to 48 hours, you’re gonna be like, ‘Oh my gosh, what have we accomplished now? Now it’s simply us.’ ”

Fortunately, the All My Kids actress says the third time’s a attraction. 

“After which your complete life turns into nudity within the family wherever you need,” Ripa stated as husband Mark Consuelos sat beside her smiling.

Caught without warning, Peet replied, “Wow, good to know!”

“Whole freak present on a regular basis,” Ripa added. 

The pair, who’ve been married since 1996, are mom and dad to Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 22.

Joaquin graduated from the College of Michigan earlier this month. 

“Anyway, we simply returned from Ann Arbor, Michigan, the place our new child child graduated college. That’s proper, we’re accomplished!” Ripa stated in the course of the Could 5 episode of their discuss present.

Consuelos added that that they had rather a lot in frequent with different dad and mom, who gave the impression to be simply as misplaced as he and his spouse have been when it got here to the large day.

“What was fascinating was that in speaking to the opposite dad and mom, we realized we weren’t alone. As a result of there’s a bunch of data that folks want. Like, what time is that this? The place do it’s essential be?” he stated.

Ripa added that the special day was a days-long celebration.

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“So it began out on Thursday evening with an enormous showcase on the theater division,” the proud mom defined. “Right here we’re with Joaquin, who carried out. He was unbelievable and superb and we have been very impressed. Then our daughter flew in from London to catch the efficiency. There she is. After which the next day, he received his diploma from the college of drama.”

Regardless that the day was momentous certainly, Ripa joked that in one in every of their household pictures, “We’re all simply going via the motions at this level.”

“Everyone’s type of like, ‘Okay. Take the image. Take the image so we’ve got a photograph of Michael in one of many commencement pictures.’ “