Despite Kelly Ripa’s objections to morning intimacy, she and Mark Consuelos remain one of the most devoted celebrity couples, celebrating their 29th wedding anniversary in May. The pair first met while playing lovers Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos on the now defunct ABC soap opera All My Children in 1995.

Prior to their screen test, Kelly was shown a picture of Mark by the casting director and had a love-at-first-sight moment. “When I saw him, the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before [my eyes] — like I saw it. And I don’t believe in any of that, and now I do because of that moment,” she gushed on a 2018 podcast. “At that point, I was not a hopeless romantic. I never thought about getting married, it never occurred to me that I would grow old with someone.”

Mark changed everything for the actress, and the couple eloped to Las Vegas in May 1996. They welcomed their first child, son Michael Consuelos, in June 1997. Daughter Lola arrived in June 2001, and son Joaquin completed their family in February 2003.