Plus, the All My Children alum—also mom to kids Michael, 28, and Lola, 24, with Mark—was giddy about how few dishes there were to clean.

“You know what cleanup was?” she added before mimicking tossing her dinner remains into a garbage can. “Trash! Done!”

Mark then quipped to his wife, “You got the plates out for some reason, I'm not sure why.” 

Indeed, Kelly admitted, “I did, I put plates out on the table because I wanted to make it nice; it was Mother's Day. And then I just put them right back!”

As for any qualms the couple—who celebrated 30 years of marriage May 1—had with their happy meal?

“I have to say, the Quarter Pounder, I have to weigh that,” Mark said. “I'm not sure it's a Quarter Pounder.”

And Kelly agreed she could’ve used a bigger burger.

“Also, the Big Mac seems small too,” she said. “Maybe we're bigger and it used to seem bigger.”

It was indeed a rare occasion for the talk show host, whose typical diet includes a green juice for breakfast, a microgreens salad for lunch, nuts in the afternoon, a steamed vegetable salad for dinner and a dessert of either chocolate chia seed pudding or a healthy mousse made with avocado, vanilla extract, dates and raw cacao, according to her nutritionist.

Read on to see how other stars celebrated Mother’s Day 2026.