Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos in 2018. (Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
(CNN) --
Kelly Ripa sure does have a story to tell the world.
The popular TV host has a book coming out, "Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories," and one of the stories she included has created quite a stir.
As told in Haute Living, the vignette, titled "Don't Let Your Husband Pick Your Death Clothes," recalls when Ripa was newly married in 1997 to her then "All My Children" co-star Mark Consuelos and was the mother of their six-month-old son, Michael.
She and Consuelos were enjoying an intimate moment together, writes Kelly Ripa, when pain from a ruptured ovarian cyst caused her to pass out.
When she woke up in the emergency room, her husband had dressed her in an 1980s-style French-cut leotard and a pair of red Manolo Blahnik shoes that Ripa said made her look like a "shop prostitute" while he was enjoying a few appetizers.
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"My eyes dart between the blurry images on the screen, the remnants of my ovarian torment, and Mark happily eating. I think sex can be very traumatic, and yet one of us is completely unfazed," Ripa writes in her real short story book
"There he is, happily nibbling on crackers and ordering a second apple juice. Mark could be at a movie, or at a spa. Instead, I'm on my back wondering when the other two cysts will burst."
“Furthermore, here is my husband, who is, dare I say, elegant, well dressed at all times, and yet he dressed me like a cheap-store prostitute in my time of need. best outfit for the day that he could find for me, to the point where when I was on the stretcher I thought I was dreaming, having a nightmare," she added.
"I didn't realize that he had come to me."
Ripa's book is scheduled to be published on September 27.