Kelly Ripa shares charming throwbacks with Andy Cohen’s son Ben as toddler turns two years old

Kelly Ripa swung by her Instagram this week to post a couple of sweet old pictures with with Andy Cohen’s son Ben.

The 50-year-old blonde uploaded the album to celebrate little Ben’s second birthday which happened to fall on Throwback Thursday.

She included a picture of herself holding Ben when he was an infant and another that was taken at his first birthday party.

Kelly gushed in her caption: ‘#tbt Two years ago vs. one year ago. Happy birthday Benjamin Cohen! (Me Maw [heart]’s Ben).’

Andy welcomed little Ben via surrogacy in early 2019 and a little over a year later he came down with coronavirus and had to quarantine away from his baby.

Kelly recently shared some heartwarming throwback snaps of herself and her husband Mark Consuelos with their older two children.

They are the proud parents of Michael, 23, Lola, 19, and Joaquin, 17, but the snaps were taken in 2001 before their youngest was born.

Kelly and Mark both became stars of the small screen as soap stars on All My Children but she then reached new heights of fame as a talk show host.

She found her current calling as the co-host of Live! With Regis Kelly alongside Regis Philbin, who retired in 2011 and died last year at the age of 88.

Three years ago Regis wanly revealed on Larry King Now that he and Kelly had ‘Not really’ remained in contact since his retirement.

‘She got very offended when I left. She thought I was leaving because of her. I was leaving because I was getting older and that wasn’t right for me anymore,’ he said.

Kelly, who now hosts Live! with Ryan Seacrest, became visibly emotional on air while discussing her reaction to the ‘horrible news’ that Regis had died.

‘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,’ she shared.