The daytime talk show host Kelly Ripa just shocked her fans by revealing her gray roots after months in quarantine amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

The 49 year-old host took to the social media site to show a month-by-month progression of her hair throughout 2020 to her 2.8 million followers.

“Perhaps this meme is a week old at this point… but does that really compare to these roots,” Ripa captioned the image. “My version of the #2020Calendar is just…real.”

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Ripa has been quarantining in the Caribbean with her husband, Mark Consuelos, and their three adult children, Lola, Michael and Joaquin. They have been stuck their since March, as they were vacationing there when the pandemic lockdowns started.

“We had planned a trip for our family, and it was supposed to be our entire family of course,” Ripa said back in May, according to Fox News. “And we arrive and three days later, the entire world changed, really. I mean, everything shut down; the government shut down; our country shut down. I hate to use the word stuck, but we were. We decided to stay where we were.”

This comes at a difficult time for Ripa, as she is still mourning her former cohost Regis Philbin, who passed away last month at the age of 88.

“As people get older, you always know that certain things are inevitable, and passing away is one of those things, but Regis is one of the people that we all believed, I think, would somehow figure out a way around the inevitable,” a visibly emotional Ripa said just after his death. “It was not in the cards.”

Ripa later talked about what she learned from Philbin during her years of working with him.

“I think my biggest takeaway from the 11 years that I shared with him was that you have to be yourself,” Ripa said. “You cannot be one person on camera and a different person once the light goes off or the audience is gone.”

“You have to be who you are,” she added.

Regis Philbin’s co-host of 11 years @KellyRipa remembers Regis and shares some of her favorite memories with the TV legend. https://t.co/2d4SrO3XoE pic.twitter.com/BhNBV7gRo5

— Good Morning America (@GMA) July 28, 2020

Ripa went on to say that Philbin’s “talent was being himself completely and making everybody else the star of the show.”

“I think his love of people will also be his legacy,” she said.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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