Kelly Ripa Says Quitting Alcohol Wasn't Even 'Really A Thought Process' For Her

• Kelly Ripa finally opened up about her decision to quit drinking.
• She says it all started when she decided to do a sober month with her friends.
• Kelly also said that quitting cigarettes 25 years ago was much harder than giving up alcohol.

Kelly Ripa mentioned a while ago that she stopped drinking around the same time that Ryan Seacrest became her co-host on Live with Kelly and Ryan. Now, she’s offering up more details on why, exactly, she decided to make that move.

Kelly told People that the whole thing started when she made a pact with her friends to stop drinking for a month. It just happened to be at the same time Ryan started on the show, she says.

“Ryan likes to blame himself for me stopping drinking, he’s like, ‘I got here and you stopped drinking.’ It really was not that. I did a sober month—all my girlfriends did it, we all did it together—and I just never went back to it,” she said. “It wasn’t even really a thought process.”

Kelly said she just discovered that she looked and felt “great” when she wasn’t drinking. “I didn’t feel hungover. Not that I was a heavy drinker—I wasn’t someone who got drunk—but even like two glasses of wine at a girl’s night out dinner; I would feel it the next morning,” she said.

Apparently Kelly didn’t put a ton of thought into the whole thing—she just did it. “I just didn’t really feel the need or desire to go back to it,” she said. “It wasn’t really a choice or a thought, it was just, ‘Yeah, I guess I don’t drink anymore.’”

Kelly’s nutritionist Daryl Gioffre told WomensHealthMag.com that his client is “just about taking care of herself.” Alcohol “just wasn’t serving her anymore and she had no desire to do it anymore,” he said. “She just knows what her body needs and what it doesn’t need.”

Kelly told People that she also quit smoking 25 years ago, which was way harder that becoming sober. “Quitting smoking I really had to think about,” she said. “I was like: ‘Smoking leads to cancer and it will kill you.’ It was a thing I had to tell myself. And I was like, ‘It gives you wrinkles.’ And that was the thing that was really terrifying [laughs]. But you don’t want to die early, needlessly, over cigarettes. Over something you don’t even like that much anyway. But drinking was very easy I didn’t really think about it at all.”

But Kelly said she’s gotten a ton of questions from people about why she gave up drinking—way more than when she stopped smoking.

Kelly Ripa isn’t the only celebrity who’s been open about giving up booze:

“Nobody ever asked me why [I stopped smoking],” she said. “But I quit drinking and everyone’s like, ‘Why did you quit drinking?’ I’m not comparing cigarettes to alcohol, but for me it was just like, I don’t do that anymore.”

Kelly’s definitely getting props from Gioffre for her healthy choices. “What she’s doing is actually working,” he said.

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