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Kelly Ripa’s decision to stop drinking came with one surprise.

While asking guest cohost Andy Cohen how his Dry January is going during the latest episode of Live With Kelly and Mark, the 54-year-old revealed what happened when she cut alcohol out of her life.

“I told you when I quit drinking, I expected there to be this windfall of weight loss,” Kelly explained to Andy 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.’”

“I think I just took to eating the sugars,” she added.

“Because apparently, alcohol is like a lot of sugar, which you don't really realize when it goes in it tastes kind of bitter.”

Kelly—who is married to fellow cohost Mark Consuelos—made the decision to eliminate