Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Family Album With Their 3 Children Through the Years: See Photos
usmagazine.comParty of five! After meeting on the set of All My Children, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos soon found a real-life romance and began to grow their family.The Live With Kelly and Ryan host and the Riverdale alum wed in 1996, and eldest son Michael was born one year later.
Daughter Lola and son Joaquin followed in 2001 and 2003, respectively.“We wound up giving Joaquin Michael’s name. Michael was supposed to be Joaquin,” Ripa recalled during a January 2022 episode of her eponymous talk show. “Michael was named after Mark’s two grandfathers who passed away right before he was born, so that’s how we came up with his name.
Joaquin, we knew we were naming him Joaquin.”While it was relatively easy to choose monikers for their boys, the couple took a little more time to fine-tune their selection for their daughter.“Lola was supposed to be Sophia, but on the way to the hospital in the taxi, the driver was listening to the radio — the ‘70s station — and ‘Copacabana’ by Barry Manilow was playing,” Ripa added during her ABC talk show. “I heard that [lyric] when he said, ‘Her name was Lola,’ and I said to Mark, ‘Lola Consuelos would be a really cool name.’ And he said, ‘If she’s a girl, let’s name her Lola.’ And that was it.”The former soap stars’ three children have since grown up, attending college away from home and starting their own careers.
Michael graduated from New York University in May 2020, studying film, while his younger sister has pursued music at the same institution.
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