The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year for many. But for Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos , it’s also the time of year they tend to get sick.

“We always get sick during the holidays, but I figured out why,” Ripa shared on the Friday, December 5, episode of Live With Kelly and Mark . “It’s because our bodies know we can’t get sick, because we have to be here. I’m not kidding, as soon as it’s the holidays, like, Day 1, that’s when I come down with something.”

Ripa noted that it’s not stress that causes her and Consuelos to fall ill around the holidays. “I just think my body knows, like, ‘You don’t have to be anywhere, so you will now get that virus that everybody else had. It’s now your time,’” she said.

To back her point, Ripa recalled a not-so-pleasant memory fro

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