Kelly Ripa Talks Nepo Baby Conversation, Says There's 'Comfort in Knowing' Her Kids Are Graduating Without 'Mountain of Debt'
On an episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, the talk show host shared that she finds "comfort in knowing" her children were able to graduate college without a "mountain of debt"
The actress and podcast host is a mother to Joaquin, 22, Lola, 24, and Michael, 28Kelly Ripa is explaining why her now-adult children being nepo babies is not necessarily a bad thing.
On an episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast released Tuesday, July 15, the Live with Kelly and Mark host, 54, responded to the topic of nepo babies by revealing that her children graduating without student loan debt is one result of her and husband Mark Consuelos' wealth that she finds "comfort" in.
"I think my kids feel, like, very fortunate in general," she said of Joaquin, 22, Lola, 24, and Michael, 28, noting that "they don't have student loans."
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Ripa also shared how her children feel knowing they don't have to carry that weight. "There's, like, a comfort in knowing my kids got to graduate knowing that they weren't having to climb out of a mountain of debt," she told host Amanda Hirsch. "They are so appreciative and so grateful."
Although the All My Children alum and the Riverdale star are willing to give their children everything, Ripa explained that they kept their kids lives "really normal" as they were growing up.
"I also think we kept their worlds really normal when they were young," she said. "They always, from the earliest ages they could, had part time jobs, always. And ... in their friend circle, they were like the only ones to have jobs."
Elsewhere on the podcast, Ripa opened up about how the loyal viewers of her talk show are like extended family members, especially when it comes to her three children.
"Our children are fully aware. They'll meet people on the street that will come up to them and say, 'I watched you grow up. It is such a pleasure to see you as an adult,' " Ripa said.
She explained, "When my kids were little, they had the opportunity to come on and do, like, little segments ... and people got a glimpse into their lives. And then they grew up, and they move on, and they move out, and they move out of the country in some cases, and and people don't get to regularly check in with them."
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"And so I feel like, once in a while, it's important to sort of let people in because I feel like they had a group experience. My kids had a group childhood. It was like they had lots of aunties, lots of uncles, lots of grandparents," Ripa continued.
The talk show host went on to say that her kids didn't just have their parents and siblings as their village. Instead, they have people all across America and in Canada "raising them in some way."
"It wasn't just our parents and our siblings They had, like, America and Canada raising them in some way," Ripa said. "And so and [the viewers] really looked out for them and rooted for them, and they are fully aware of that."
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