Kelly Ripa vents about Mark Consuelos getting fit as she gained 68 pounds during pregnancy: ‘He turned into Hercules’

Kelly Ripa’s biggest pregnancy ick was her husband, Mark Consuelos, getting fit.

On Monday’s episode of “Live with Kelly & Mark,” Ripa vented about how “irritating” it was when Consuelos “decided he was going to join a gym and hire a trainer” when she was pregnant with their first child, son Michael Consuelos.

“Because I had heard about all of these sympathetic, empathetic husbands that also get pregnant with their wives,” she told the audience.

Kelly Ripa vented about her husband, Mark Consuelos, both seen here in February 1997, getting fit as she gained 68 pounds during her first pregnancy. Getty Images The couple wed in May 1996. markconsuelos/Instagram On Monday’s episode of “Live with Kelly & Mark,” Ripa, seen here in February 1997, explained how “irritating” it was when Consuelos “decided he was going to join a gym and hire a trainer” when she was pregnant with son Michael Consuelos. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

“And that the wives gain a bunch of weight, which I did, and the husbands gain it along with them and then they have fun taking it off together.”

But according to the actress, Mark “turned into Hercules.”

“Because you did it for both of us, baby,” he quipped. “You gained the weight for both of us.”

According to Ripa, Mark, seen here with his wife in May 1997, “turned into Hercules.” Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Mark, seen here with Ripa in May 1998, jokingly claimed he had to “stay fit in case something happens.” Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

Ripa, 53, said she “remember[ed] because [she] had gained 68 pounds” with Michael, 27, and that a magazine article at the time questioned whether she “had seven babies in there.”

“He was a big kid!” Mark, also 53, exclaimed in his wife’s defense.

“He was big, I will hand it to him,” Ripa conceded.

However, she wasn’t thrilled that the former soap opera star’s muscles were bulging as he urged her at the time to not “feel bad.”

Michael was born in June 1997. WireImage Ripa and Mark are also parents to daughter Lola Consuelos and son Joaquin Consuelos. Kelly Ripa/Instagram

“I go, ‘Did you read the part about [me] having seven children?'” she recalled. “But he brought [the magazine] in with his rippling muscles. He just came from the gym.”

Mark jokingly claimed he had to “stay fit in case something happens.”

The couple — who wed in May 1996 — are also parents to daughter Lola Consuelos, 23, and son Joaquin Consuelos, 21.