Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos had such a whirlwind romance at the start of their relationship that they didn’t have one major thing worked out before they tied the knot — where to live.
At the top of Live With Kelly and Mark ‘s Friday, November 14, episode, the cohosts got candid about their own relationship while discussing a report claiming that married couples who dated for three years or more are less likely to get a divorce.
“‘Dating longer can give you more data on a partner.’ I got my data pretty quickly,” Consuelos quipped, to which Ripa replied, “We didn’t have that much data. We were so young when we got married.”
While the two only met one year before they tied the knot in 1996, Consuelos credits playing love interests on the soap opera All My Children with helping him

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