Kelly Ripa Quotes

If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

I'm like any working mom.

Please get on an airplane or a horse, because it's pretty spectacular.

I'm not militant about anything. If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some. If I'm in the mood for something, I'll have it. I don't obsess about anything. I could have three or four "cheat days" in a week and then not have dessert for another three months.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

I treat my cheeks like breasts in a push-up bra. I just reach down in there, lift them up and push them together. And they'll stay put if the jeans are tight enough.

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky.

I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.

If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

When I'm at work, I'm remembering what I forgot to do for the kids, and when I'm with the kids, I'm remembering what I forgot to do at work.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

Women's clutches are too small. I open my purse, and with some hydraulic force, a tampon shoots 12 feet into the air.

I get paid to make out with the hunks!

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

I work out with a trainer, Anna Kaiser, three days a week.

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.