The TV host shares that she’s had consultations, but always gets scared by “horror stories” of surgeries gone wrong

There are no boob jobs in Kelly Ripa’s future — even though she’s been tempted.

The Live with Kelly and Mark host says that even though she’s had consultations with surgeons for a breast augmentation, she always gets scared off by potential complications.

“I have no boobs,” Ripa, 54, said on the July 15 episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. “We know that I’m flat-chested. It’s not a mystery at this point. It’s almost a point of pride.”

She shared that her breast size did get “mildly” impacted after she had children. Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos share three children: Joaquin, 22, Lola, 24, and Michael, 28. “I nursed what was in there away. So now I just have, like, nipples that hang lower. I went from an A to an A long,” Ripa quipped.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos in Hollywood, Calif., in 2018.Kevork Djansezian/Getty

“Did ever make you feel insecure — like, you wanted bigger boobs at any point in your life?” asked host Amanda Hirsch.

“I’ve gone to more breast augmentation consults than I would like to admit. Like, every time I hear about the new boob guy, I go and I have a consult,” Ripa said. “And I’m like, ‘What? What will you do?’ And they always, like, say all the right things and do all the right things. And, you know, because our cell phones listen to us … It pops up. And I scroll through, like, so many horror stories of boob jobs.”

Ripa shared that she ends up reading about surgeries that “turn out not good” or “people that have had complications.”

“It, like, talks me right out of it,” she shared.

Her age — and the inevitability of follow-up surgeries to replace implants as they get older — is another factor, she said. “Here’s the reality, because all of my friends — or a majority of my friends — have had breast augmentation. And they’ve had multiple because, like, every ten years or so, you have to, like, swap them out. So let’s say I get them at 55. Right? That means at 65, I have to swap them out. At 75, I’m on my second pair? Let’s say I live to 85, I’m going under the knife again?“

Kelly Ripa in New York in May 2025.Adela Loconte/Variety via Getty

“I’m good. Nobody’s talking to these except for Mark, and even he seems like he’s on a ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy with them.,” Ripa said. “He’s like, ‘We’re good. I’m fine.’ ”