Kelly Ripa started therapy after bumping into a friend and ‘sobbing’: ‘I had trouble embracing success’
nypost.com“Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast.“I went into therapy when I turned 40,” Ripa explained. “I bumped into a girlfriend of mine at a Bar Mitzvah and she said, ‘How are you?’ and I started sobbing, and I wasn’t entirely sure why.” “She said, ‘I’m going to write down the name of my therapist,'” the “Live with Kelly and Mark” host recalled with a laugh.“I really got to know myself,” Ripa said after going to therapy. “I really got to understand why I had such trouble embracing success of any kind.”The TV personality has always been candid about her struggles with social anxiety disorder. “I tend to say awkward or inappropriate things when under duress,” Ripa wrote in her 2022 memoir “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.”“People think that because I’m an extrovert on television I am one in real life.
Surprise. That’s why they call it acting.”Elsewhere in the book, Ripa recalled a conversation she had with a therapist in the past.“I have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning.
I almost always wake up crying at the thought of having to go to work. I feel like I’m in physical pain. My hair hurts. I have no energy at all.
I’m very easily distracted.”“When I’m playing with my kids, I feel like I’ve forgotten to do something at work, and when I’m at work, I feel like I’ve forgotten to do something for my kids,” she revealed. “I cry in the shower.
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