Kelly Ripa has opened about a consequence that she faced after quitting alcohol. In a recent episode of her show Live with Kelly and Mark, the American actress candidly talked about her experience of quitting drinking. “I told you when I quit drinking,” she began by saying.
“I expected there to be this windfall of weight loss because everybody's like, ‘Well, you are going to get too skinny, and you can't afford to lose it.’” However, Ripa revealed that she unexpectedly gained weight after quitting alcohol, and continued, “I gained 12 pounds [and said], ‘I don't understand this magical weight loss that people apply.’” Reflecting upon a possible reason behind her weight gain, she said, “I think I just took to eating the sugars, because apparently, alcohol is like a lot of sugar.
which you don't really realize when it goes in it tastes kind of bitter.” Previously, the 54-year-old actress shared insight into her journey of sobriety with People that she began with her friends and told the outlet, “It felt great.” “It wasn’t even really a thought process.
It felt great, I felt like I looked great, I felt like 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.” “I just didn’t really feel the need or desire to go back to it.
It wasn’t really a choice or a thought, it was just, ‘Yeah, I guess .