Quarantine has forced plenty of us to give up regularly scheduled beauty appointments. Kelly Ripa is no different.
The “Live With Kelly and Ryan” host, 49, got hilariously real while joining in on a popular Instagram meme over the weekend, showing off the month-by-month progression of her gray roots while she shelters at home for the novel coronavirus.
The meme, which Reese Witherspoon began earlier this month, shows one photo for each month of 2020, meant to show how people have struggled through the year, particularly over the last few months.
In Witherspoon’s case, she began with a bright-eyed shot of her in 2001’s “Legally Blonde” and used the same worn-out shot of herself from 2014’s “Wild” for June, July, August and September.
Ripa’s hair began all-blond in a glam shot labeled “January,” while the last three months show a selfie with about an inch of gray hair peeking through.
“Perhaps this meme is a week old at this point … but does that really compare to these roots?” she joked Saturday. “My version of the #2020Calendar is just … real.”
Recently, Ripa opened up about what she and husband Mark Consuelos have learned about parenting over the years.
Speaking to People in an interview published Wednesday for the outlet’s inaugural Family Issue, the TV host said she thought parenting sons and daughters was going to be different than how it turned out.
“I think I had definitive ideas about raising girls versus raising boys, even though I don’t really believe in gender stereotyping,” Ripa said. “My sons are just as sensitive as my daughter, and my daughter is as strong as my sons.”
The couple has three children: Michael, 23, Lola, 19, and Joaquin, 17. Just like kids learn with age, so did Ripa.
“As you get older and you learn more, that youngest kid hopefully benefits from a little bit more wisdom … and hopefully fewer nerves,” she said, to which Joaquin agreed and noted that his parents have been more relaxed now that he’s in high school.
Their kids also taught Ripa and Consuelos a thing or two. Ripa said Lola taught her a lot about “being a modern-day woman.”
“It really gives me hope – her generation really supports each other, the way she and her friends have each other’s backs,” Ripa said. “For all the talk about women helping other women, I see it in her generation in a way I never have before.”
Contributing: Rasha Ali
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