Kelly Ripa on Diet, Food, Sex, and Health

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Join me on my "I Fit and Healthy" journey! Maria is an Upstate New Yorker interested in all things healthy-living related! She started the "I Fit and Healthy" Blog to document life and her pursuit of healthy living. By day she work in digital media and advertising. By night she’s a first-rate wife and mom of two crazy little girls! She is self-proclaimed addicted to her iPhone/iPad and always on the hunt for the latest health tools and fitness gadgets.

In Kelly Ripa comes clean, the Live With Regis and Kelly cohost told Self a few things you probably don’t know.

Snack of choice: sweet or salty?

Salty! But sodium can blow you up if you’re not careful! My favorite indulgence is a really good soft cheese. I don’t even know what it’s called.

I’m going to look right now in an artisanal cheese catalog-that’s when you know you’re a cheese junkie! It’s my passion, but my father had quadruple bypass surgery, so I let myself indulge only on weekends.

Which would you rather have: sleep or sex?

Can it be a two-part answer?! I think sex and then sleep. Isn’t that nice? My husband is more like sleep and then sex. But I’m the opposite. I’m so embarrassed! I’m sweating right now.

Dinner tonight: cook in or take out?

Take out. I’m a horrible cook. I burn everything. On weekends, when I do “treat” my family to my cooking, we open the windows because I usually set off the smoke alarm. I don’t know how long is too long to leave the oil in the pan.

And I don’t know how hot is too hot. But I haven’t been so tainted by my own cooking that I don’t appreciate good food. We’ll order in anything, and my kids love all food, even sushi. They eat things that I would never dream of eating, like sea urchin.

Best way to spend calories: drink or dessert?

I’m going to say a drink. You know what’s so funny? I love margaritas, but then I read-I think in SELF-that a frozen margarita has almost 700 calories!

That has to be a vicious and awful rumor, but since I’ve heard that, I’ve taken to having a white wine instead. [She’s right. A 16-ounce frozen margarita has 624 calories; an 8-ounce glass of white wine has only 180 calories.]

Best stress reliever: an hour-long massage or an hour-long run?

A run, because I can’t sit still. I’ve just taken up exercising. When my show [Hope and Faith] got canceled, I discovered I had all this free time, so I hired a trainer and I work out five days a week.

I do 20 minutes of cardio, and then we mix it up: abs on Monday, arms on Tuesday. I feel really good and strong. Madonna was on our show. Did you get that name that I just dropped?

She said to me, “Well, you and I have similar bodies.” I almost fell out of my chair. I was like, “I’m sorry? Could you say that again and again and again and again?”

Best way to take off 10 years: Botox or personal trainer?

I’m going to have to say personal trainer, and a good makeup artist and good lighting, and if a magazine decides to airbrush you-hint, hint-that doesn’t hurt. I haven’t had Botox, but I’m dying to.

I’m afraid of putting a needle in my face-but that’s the only thing that has prevented me. I plan to do it one day soon on the air. I’m not a secretive person when it comes to stuff like that. Especially if it means I don’t have to pay for it!

Which is the better body-confidence booster: a great bra or great jeans?

You’re asking someone who is completely flat-chested! Great jeans make you look like you have a nice rear end that’s not hanging down to your midthigh.

A bra is something I wear only on TV. I’m not being self-deprecating, there is really just no need. But I’m happy with the way I am. I can run and I don’t hit myself in the eyes!

Your attitude toward health: Ignorance is bliss, or knowledge is power?

Boy, if you had asked me that question two years ago, I would have said ignorance is bliss, but now I’m changing my opinion. I want to see my kids get married. I want to see my grandchildren.

I’ve always been pretty good about visiting doctors annually, but now I take their advice seriously. When my dermatologist tells me, “You shouldn’t go in the sun without sunscreen,” now I listen. I used to say, “Yeah, but I really don’t burn that much.” Now I’m in full sunblock.

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