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Kelly Ripa has detailed how she feared she would get divorced from husband Mark Consuelos after their third child moved to college and left them as empty-nesters.MORE: Kelly Ripa makes surprisingly candid confession about the beginning of her marriage"It's scary, thrilling, liberating, shocking... and quiet," Kelly shared of living in a house with just Mark after raising three children over their 26 years of marriage.WATCH: Kelly Ripa and Michael Consuelos get into discussion about her eating habits"There were moments when I was like, 'We're going to be that couple: Our third child goes to college and we get divorced because this is it.' But there was this other moment, where we went to the beach alone for the first time since our honeymoon with cheese and a baguette,' she told People, adding that she realized she now had time to notice the sunset."So I think for us, it was 'Oh, this next phase of our lives, this is kind of great.'"Mark and Kelly wed in 1996 and the TV personality added that looking back they were both too young to get married but they have "fought for our marriage when it would have been easier to quit and throw in the towel".The two met on the set of All My Children when Kelly played the character of Hayley Vaughan and her husband, fittingly, her love interest Mateo Santos.

No backing out! Mark Consuelos made his official debut as wife Kelly Ripa‘s cohost on Monday, April 17 — with a few special guests in the audience.

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos' love seriously goes way back. Fans of the longtime couple can't help but gush at the latest throwback the Live! With Kelly and Ryan host just shared on Instagram.MORE: Kelly Ripa's lookalike daughter steals the spotlight in sweet family photoThe star further proved just how "couple goals" the two truly are with the unbelievable picture, and that the love they have for one another was right there from the start.The image is from their time on the popular soap opera they both appeared in, All My Children, which ran from 1970 to 2013.WATCH: Kelly's eating habits are the talk of LIVE in amusing video with MarkMORE: Kelly Ripa's unrecognisable transformation in before-and-after beach photosThe morning talk show host played the character of Hayley Vaughan starting in 1990, and she met her future husband when he began playing his character of Mateo Santos in 1995.

Kelly Ripa is thinking back to the start of her relationship with her husband, Mark Consuelos. ET's Rachel Smith speaks to Ripa on Tuesday's Entertainment Tonight about how her and Consuelos' life together began while they were both starring on as Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos.The pair tied the knot in 1996 and went on to have three kids, Michael, 23, Lola, 19, and Joaquin, 17." is responsible for my entire life.

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are truly a one-of-a-kind couple. The two have been together for decades, and consistently prove that they have one of the strongest romantic partnerships in Hollywood. Fans have loved watching each new chapter of their love story, and we’re going all the way back to the beginning to see how their relationship started!

Who knew that a 1995 screen test for All My Children would result in one of Hollywood’s most successful love stories? More than two decades into their marriage, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos continue to make Us swoon with their passion and adoration for each other.