Kelly Ripa may be known for her bubbly television personality and years spent in front of crowds and cameras. Now, though, in her new book, she opens up about the anxiety that lies beneath. «I have a severe case of social anxiety disorder, and I tend to say awkward or inappropriate things when under duress,» Ripa admits in her new book,. «People think that because I’m an extrovert on television I am one in real life.
Surprise. That’s why they call it acting.»Ripa is candid in discussing the ways her anxiety has followed her through most of her adult life, at times even bordering on depression.The 51-year-old actress co-hosted with the late Regis Philbin from 2001 to 2011, later co-hosting with Michael Strahan and now with Ryan Seacrest.
Though she now says that she and Philbin had «a very professional working relationship,» Ripa is also open about how hard it was to be a woman in media in the early aughts. “At that time,” she writes of her early days on, “a pre–#metoo #timesup time, a pre-women belong in the room where decisions are being made time, I.
Was. Miserable.” In the same section, Ripa recounts a conversation she had with a therapist, telling the clinician, «I have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning.
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