Their parents are both superstars, but forMichael,LolaandJoaquin Consuelos— the kids ofKelly RipaandMark Consuelos— mom and dad are simply the people who know best. Sometimes, anyway.
“What is the one thing I’ve always told you?” Ripa asked Lola when the whole family sat down with PEOPLE for this year’s Beautiful Issue. When Lola searched for the answer, Ripa interjected: “Nevertouch your eyebrows! I have always told you never to touch your eyebrows, and you never have, and I’m so right about that.”
Lola, 17, who also followed her mom’s makeup advice that “less is more”— “Although sometimes I look back on pictures of myself from eighth grade and think, oh, I just did not get it at all,” said Lola — is nevertheless resisting another beauty tip from mom.
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“She wants me to cut my hair into a bob. Never happening,” Lola insisted.
“You’ve had hair that short before and it looked so cute!” persisted Ripa, 48, the star ofLive with Kelly and Ryan.
“When I was 4, mom. I had that cut when I was 4. So it’s happened. And it’s not happening again,” Lola explained.
Michael, 21, has also learned a thing or two from his dad,Riverdalestar Mark, 48, who taught both of his sons how to shave (Ripa caught those moments on tape).
Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa with their sons Michael and Joaquin and daughter Lola.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
“I was off at school,” said Michael, a rising senior in college. “And I get this call: ‘Mike. There’s a pair of jeans here. And … they’ve been washed, Michael. Washed and dried. Do you know what happened here?’ So that’s how I learned …”
“You don’t wash denim,” Mark concluded, before adding, “But that wasn’t the only problem with that situation, Michael. What was the other problem? They were my jeans. You did that to my jeans!”
Denim fiascos and haircut refusals aside, both Ripa and Mark are proud of the way their children have remained immune to the artifice of stardom.
All three kids have made their parents proud as they have grown into adults. Michael “has the strongest moral compass of anyone I’ve ever known,” said Ripa. “He is just such a good and decent and thoroughly kind person.”
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Lola, 17, is “the funniest, hands down” said her older brother, to which the whole family agreed. “She is just so smart and witty and funny, and she justgets it, you know? Lola knows exactly what people are about and how to handle herself in any situation,” said Mark.
And Joaquin, 16, is “the hardest working, but without complaint,” said Mark. Ripa added, “He’s the kid who will have homework over the weekend and come in and get right to it on a Friday, because he wants to have time to focus on it and get it right.”
But Joaquin could probably still use a little help in the style department. Asked who is the most likely in the family to wear the same shirt three days in a row, the answer was unanimous.
“Joaquin,” said Lola. “And I’ve seen you do it.”
“Or maybe I just have several copies of the same shirt,” her little brother said with a sly smile.
source: people.com
