There’s the everything shower, and then there’s the mom shower.
Even though Live with Kelly and Mark is taking a short summer break until the show’s 4th of July Week, Kelly Ripa mentioned an amusing article that caught her attention on Monday’s episode. The article was about the concept of “everything showers” becoming a trend.
Ripa humorously shared her thoughts on the topic, stating, “And so I read what an everything shower is, and spoiler alert, it’s a shower. I read this and I was like, ‘This sounds like a shower.’”
Ripa went on to explain that an “everything shower” includes various steps such as shampooing, conditioning, washing the body with soap, using scalp treatments, face wash, makeup removal, applying hair or face masks, shaving, and moisturizing.
While she reiterated that she “call[s] this a shower,” Ripa recalled the shorter showers she would take when raising her and Mark Consuelos‘ three children.
“I remember, though, when our kids were small, I used to take what I like to call mom showers, which was only washing the essential bits,” she explained, “because I did not have time to wash everything.”
Consuelos chimed in, “Languish.”
Ripa agreed, “I could not languish in there. So it was more like a… Anything that might stink gets washed. Anything that’s probably not going to stink for several days, it’s not going to get washed. So it was like, you know, pits, crotch, out.”
As the audience laughed, Consuelos told Ripa, “That’s a guy shower.”
Ripa echoed, “A guy shower. I was showering like a man. Anything else, I was like, ‘I don’t have time for this.’”
Even once her kids got older, Ripa said that whenever she tried to treat herself to an “everything shower,” she “would see three little faces pressed against the glass.”
“Like, ‘You gonna be much longer?’ I’m like, ‘Guys, it’s been 42 seconds. I have the stopwatch in here,’” she joked. “‘You’ll be fine for two more minutes. I promise. Nobody will break into the house.’”
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