Lorenz, 16, Tate, 14, and Tia, 12, who he shares with his late wife Rebecca, Rebecca, are now his stepchildren. Kate Ferdinand is their stepmother.
Kate Ferdinand has revealed Rio’s kids’ heartwarming reaction when she accidentally referred to herself as their mum. The former TOWIE star, 33, is a stepmum to Lorenz, 16, Tate, 14, and Tia, 12, who Rio shares with his late wife, Rebecca.
Kate, who also shares son Cree, five, and daughter Shae, two, with husband, Rio, told the Happy Place podcast that, happily, her stepkids have no problem if she calls herself their mum, instead of ‘Mummy Kate’.
Opening up about her blended family dynamic after announcing that she and Rio had moved their brood to Dubai, she said: “Sometimes I’m ‘Mummy Kate’. But the other day I found myself going ‘come here to Mummy’, and Tia’s there and I go ‘oh sorry’. Tia said ‘Kate, it’s fine, I’m OK if you say Mummy. You don’t have to say Mummy Kate. It doesn’t bother me’.”
READ MORE: Kate and Rio Ferdinand’s unlikely love story as they move entire family to DubaiREAD MORE: Harry Styles’ new rumoured girlfriend revealed as fans lose it over cosy Rome photos
Kate recently revealed that despite their current strong bond, she had recently moved in with Rio and her three stepchildren and spent the night crying after not receiving a card on her first Mother’s Day.
She stated on the couple’s podcast, “I wasn’t a biological mother.” We had our first Mother’s Day, in my opinion, and it was probably around six months ago. And even though I wasn’t a biological mother, I kind of assumed the role of mother.
I felt like a mother when I went from living alone to taking the kids to school and cooking them dinner.
I really thought I might get a card from you, and I didn’t get one from you, Rio said in a statement. He also lost his own mother Janice in 2017.
Because you guys lost your mother and the kids have lost theirs, I felt bad about telling them that in front of you.
I went into my room and sobbed my heart out, seriously.
How dare I want a card, I thought, “And then I felt selfish for wanting one?”
“So anyone that’s kind of new in this situation might feel like that because it’s a weird one – ‘I wasn’t a biological parent so how could I expect that?’ But I felt like a mum.”
Kate, who met Rio in Dubai in the year after meeting the sports pundit, opens up about her family life and recently teased fans by revealing that they had all relocated to the United Arab Emirates.
The mother-of-two shared a sneak peek of their new family home with her followers on Instagram, saying it was a “new chapter” for the family.
A new chapter, a fresh start, because we won’t know without trying, Kate wrote in the caption. Ahhh ! We’ve been discussing this for a while, but it finally seems like it’s happening. We’re here, we’re making a new home there, and we’ve been talking about it for a while.
READ MORE: Shoppers ‘obsessed’ with ‘delicious’ hydration drink that beats mid-afternoon slump
Source: Mirror
Leave a Reply