Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos reside their finest and boldest lives now that their youngsters have flown the coop, they usually’re not shy in regards to the NSFW perks of an empty nest.

The couple, each 54, opened up on Monday’s episode of “Stay with Kelly and Mark” about how issues have modified at residence since their youngest youngster, Joaquin, moved out earlier this 12 months after graduating from the College of Michigan.

Spoiler alert: Kelly Ripa has quite a bit much less laundry.

Chatting with visitor Amanda Peet, who was getting emotional over her personal youngster leaving for faculty, Kelly supplied some surprising consolation.

“The primary one is sort of a little bit of a shock. Each, the second it’s like no huge deal, third one for twenty-four to 48 hours, you’re gonna be like, ‘Oh my gosh, what have we executed? Now it’s simply us,'” she mentioned. “After which your total life turns into nudity within the family wherever you need.”

Mark didn’t hesitate to verify the shift. “It’s a freak present,” he mentioned.

“Complete freak present,” Kelly added with fun.

The longtime couple shares three kids. Michael, 27, and Lola, 23, who’re each NYU graduates, and Joaquin, 22, who lately accomplished his school journey at Michigan. Whereas they’ve totally embraced their new freedom, Kelly and Mark admit the transition wasn’t precisely seamless.

Again in 2021, shortly after dropping Joaquin off in school, Kelly described the expertise as “actually laborious.”

Mark, too, felt the burden of the change, later telling PEOPLE in a joint 2023 interview that it felt like “a loss.”

“The primary dinner I cooked, I’m not kidding, was for 12 folks, and it was simply the 2 of us,” Kelly recalled. “We sat there with this inordinate quantity of meals, neither considered one of us hungry in any respect.”

Kelly additionally admitted she initially frightened they wouldn’t have sufficient to speak about as a pair, however that concern rapidly light.

“The primary 48 hours, we had been leaning into the despair, after which we actually leaned into the constructive facet,” she mentioned. “We received over it!”

In fact, longtime followers of the couple know that Kelly and Mark have by no means shied away from candidly discussing their love life, together with the, let’s say, artistic locations they’ve gotten frisky through the years.

“I’ve received to let you know one thing. I did one thing backstage that was so inappropriate that, if we weren’t married, I might in all probability be fired proper now,” Ripa joked throughout a July 2024 episode. “However, I’ve to clarify myself. I began on the shirt, and I used to be like, ‘I actually love this shirt, I believe it’s attractive on you.’”

Consuelos revealed that after Ripa complimented him, he playfully inspired her to really feel his pants.

“I felt his pants, they usually really feel good. However, I used to be like, ‘My gosh, your thighs really feel like they’re made out of steel or stone.’ Marble! Carved out of marble,” she mentioned. “I’m backstage rubbing up and down his thighs, like, it doesn’t even appear potential. I understand persons are taking a look at us like, ‘Are you OK? Do you overlook that you just’re in a administrative center?’ And, sure is the reply!”

Throughout a January 2023 episode of “Stay with Kelly and Ryan,” Consuelos revealed that their daughter Lola had briefly moved again in for her remaining semester of school. And along with her return got here just a little an excessive amount of informal closeness.

“She’s so excited to be dwelling with us once more as a result of it is her final semester in school,” Consuelos mentioned. “She’s not going again to her condo, she’s staying with us. And you recognize what she does now? The door’s closed in our bed room, no knock, she simply walks in and says, ‘Hey women!'”

That led to an vital sit-down second between dad and mom and daughter.