Kelly Ripa reveals funny reason why she 'only wears bras'

Kelly Ripa has joked she only wears a bra "to hold her microphone".

The 54-year-old talk show host quipped that the average age of her bras is "thousands of years" because "they don't get a big workout".

During a discussion about the history of bras on Live with Kelly and Mark, she quipped: "I'm not asking a lot of them, if you know what I'm saying. You know what I mean?

"Basically, I wear a bra to hold my microphone on. That is why I wear a bra, not to hold anything else, because there's nothing else there.

"I don't care if you're offended. Shut it! That is why I wear a bra, just to put a microphone on. So, I don't ask a lot."

Her husband and co-star Mark Consuelos, also 54, joked his bra preference is "the ones that had the little snaps at the front", and she admitted he was "very good" at removing those.

She teased: "I was so impressed. I was like 'wow' and I mean this guy knows his way around a bra."