‘Kids ruined my life,’ Katherine Ryan admits in frank interview but confesses she still sees them as a blessing
ANY mum will know just how much your life changes when you have kids – something which comedian Katherine Ryan knows only too well.
The 40-year-old, who has Fred, two, and Fenna, one, with husband Bobby Kootstra, and 14-year-old Violet from a previous relationship, admitted how having kids “ruined” the life she had before she became a mum.
‘My children have enriched my life, they’re such a blessing and I would never trade them for anything,’ she said, in a candid interview with Women Magazine.
“But I would be lying if I said they didn’t ruin the life I had before. But I rebuilt a better one and that’s fine.
“I would be pretending if I said that I could still do all the things that I could before and I think we’re selling this fantasy of what motherhood means if we aren’t honest about that.”
It comes after Lily Allen claimed that mums can’t “have it all” after having children.
“Yes, my children ruined my career,” she told Radio Times.
“I love them and they complete me, but in terms of pop stardom, they totally ruined it.
The 38-year-old continued: “I get really annoyed when people say you can have it all because, quite frankly, you can’t.
“Some people choose their career over their children and that’s their prerogative, but my parents were quite absent when I was a kid.
“I feel like it left some nasty scars that I’m not willing to repeat on mine.
“I chose to step back and concentrate on them. I’m glad that I’ve done that because I think they’re pretty well-rounded.”
Katherine Ryan frequently speaks out about the realities of motherhood and previously divided opinion after revealing that she potty trains her children “from the moment they’re born.”
“I put them on the potty pretty much from the moment they’re born,” she said, speaking on her podcast ‘Telling Everybody Everything.’
“A newborn is still scrunched up, you can’t sit them on the potty, but from about the time they can listen to a story and look at a book, I just put them on the potty randomly throughout the day, and they have an instinct to go.
“It happens all over the world, just not in Western culture. We are the ones, the only ones, who train our babies to go in a nappy.”
Despite this, the Live at the Apollo star did admit that the journey isn’t always plain sailing.
She continued: “In the early stages, when my children are learning to walk, they do chuck a p*** here and there on the ground, and you have to be very careful that they don’t slip in it, but they see themselves peeing and they learn what peeing is.
“That’s fine with me because crucially what I’m not doing when I potty train my kids young is I am avoiding the stage where the rest of us in Western culture train them to go in their pants.”