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Ripa said this was the first time she'd sent "a semi-nude anything ever," and couldn_ by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Sep 25, 2014 3:47 PM UTC Kelly Ripa accidentally sent a pic of herself in her underwear to her in-laws! Luckily they responded by telling her "you look great, may God continue to bless you." Ripa said this was the first time she'd sent "a semi-nude anything ever," and couldn by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Sep 25, 2014 3:47 PM UTC Kelly Ripa said this was the first time she had sent a semi-nude photograph of herself. Unluckily for her, her first attempt ended up in the wrong hands. Ripa told David Letterman on _The Late Show_ Wednesday that she accidentally sent a selfie of her butt (also called a ‘belfie’) in her underwear to her in-laws. She had meant to send it to her husband, Mark Consuelos. Her in-laws responded with “you look great, may God continue to bless you.” ## Transcript [00:00] Another celeb in trouble for a sexy selfie on the cloud. [00:04] Well sort of. Kelly Riven told David Letterman she was [00:07] trying to send a belfie or a **** selfie in her underwear to [00:11] her hubby Mark Conswaleo but she accidentally shared it [00:15] with her in- laws via there shared icloud account. And then [00:20] my mother and father in law respond from there email and [00:23] they're like. Dear Kelly, we are so proud of all the hard [00:27] work. Your exercise classes are really paying off. [00:29] [ LAUGH ] Yep. Kelly said she was trying to [00:33] send Mark some sugar while he was away on a trip. At [00:36] least she got a compliment out of it all. But Kelly didn't let [00:39] any embarrassment get her down. She even took another [00:42] belfie backstage at The Late Show writing, will Dave figure [00:46] out what a belfie is? She first discovered the belfie earlier [00:50] this year. You use a mirror to take a belfie. Like Kim [00:54] Kardashian. And Kelly's belfie from backstage? It's been [00:57] liked more than 5, 000 times already. 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