“I told you when I quit drinking, I expected there to be this windfall of weight loss,” Ripa explained to Cohen during the Jan. 22 show. “Because everybody’s like, ‘Well you are going to get too skinny, and you can’t blah blah blah.’ I gained 12 pounds. I don’t understand this ‘magical weight loss thing.’”

Kelly Ripa doesn’t abide by the idea that if you stop drinking, you will lose weight, revealing the exact opposite happened for her when she quit alcohol eight years ago. The veteran television host opened up about the subject on Wednesday’s (January 22) episode of Live with Kelly and Mark,