Katherine Ryan has opened up about the fierce backlash her parenting advice has received, just two weeks after the birth of her fourth child.
The comedian, 42, and husband Bobby Kootstra confirmed the arrival of baby daughter Holland earlier this month, who arrived in just 45 minutes as the Katherine shared her speedy birth story after returning to her podcast.
She already shares son Fred, four, and daughter Fenna, two, with Bobby. She is also mother to her first daughter Violet, 16, from a previous relationship.
Speaking on Davina McCall’s Begin Again podcast which was recorded while still heavily pregnant, Katherine said she’d been branded ‘privileged’ after offering advice to other new mums especially when it comes to potty training.
After previously revealing son Fred was out of nappies by eight-months, she said: ‘I say that you should start potty training babies from almost birth. And when I say potty training, I think it gets lost in translation’
‘People go: “What do you mean?” And they get mad right away because they feel like: “Well, because I’ve got a three-year-old in a nappie, you’re saying that’s my fault and I’m negligent and I don’t love my child”‘ I just think there’s a miscommunication’.
Katherine Ryan, 42, has opened up about the fierce backlash her parenting advice has received, just two weeks after the birth of her fourth child.
The comedian and husband Bobby Kootstra confirmed the arrival of baby daughter Holland earlier this month
The mum-of-four went on to explain that she believed ‘well-meaning, very loving parents’ didn’t realise they were in fact training their newborn’s to use a nappie.
‘If you take the nappie off at regular intervals and you put them, you hold them on a potty, you’re training them to go in the potty.’
But Katherine said she understood this could not work for all families with many new mums having tog go straight back to work and babies put in day care.
‘The reaction that I get is people going: “Well, you’re privileged and you have chefs and nannies” Well, I don’t’ before quipping: ‘I mean, I do’.
‘I have a nanny and I have a cleaner that comes twice a week, but there’s no chef. Oh, that’s Bobby. Yeah. Okay. So, there there I do have all that. But I potty trained [eldest daughter] Violet as a very financially insecure single mom’.
Elsewhere in the interview opened up on her desire to get a facelift and go on Ozempic, as she explained she wants to be the ‘most glam’ version of herself for fans.
She revealed she had gifted her mother a facelift for her birthday last year and couldn’t wait to have her own.
The star, who hasn’t had any plastic surgery on her face before, added that she would always be upfront and honest about her procedures, because it ‘removes the shame’ and to keep it secret would ‘not be authentic to me’.
After revealing son Fred was out of nappies by eight-months, she said: ‘I say that you should start potty training babies from almost birth. And when I say potty training, I think it gets lost in translation’
The mum-of-four went on to explain that she believed ‘well-meaning, very loving parents’ didn’t realise they were in fact training their newborn’s to use a nappie
But Katherine said she understood this could not work for all families with many new mums having tog go straight back to work and babies put in day care
Katherine discussed her cosmetic plans, while insisting that none of them were motivated by the male gaze, as she declared: ‘I don’t care what men think”.
She said: ‘I want to go on Ozempic, if that’s what it takes, next year. And I want to have a face lift, because people are doing that younger.
‘There’s nothing I can do about my nose. A lot of people think I’ve had a nose job. I haven’t, I wouldn’t choose this nose.
‘But I don’t think I can have a lip lift because my nose is so like, Dr. Seuss. But I don’t want to do that for men. I just think it’s fun!’
The TV favourite has been open about having gotten breast implants in 2004 as well as Botox and fillers, and frequently jokes about the amount of plastic surgery other people assumed she’s had.
Katherine explained: ‘I think I have a healthy attitude towards all those things, which is why I’m happy to be joked about like, “Katherine Ryan’s had all this plastic surgery”.
‘The reaction that I get is people going: “Well, you’re privileged and you have chefs and nannies” Well, I don’t’ before quipping: ‘I mean, I do’.
‘I actually haven’t had any plastic surgery on my face. I even haven’t had Botox and fillers for a long time because I’ve been so pregnant. But because of pregnancy my face has been big and then small and then big and then small.
‘Do I hate my face every day I walk past shop windows and think, “Oh God, I’m a monster?” No. But I’m an entertainer and I think if people are going to come and see me on tour, they deserve the best, most glamorous version of me because it’s part of showbiz and why wouldn’t I give it to them?’
She added: ‘So I will do something about it and when I do, I’ll tell everyone that I did it. Not because I’m proud of it or ashamed, but because I can exist in the middle and just be honest and say “Yeah I wanted to do that”.
‘I think when you talk about having a face lift, you remove the shame. I think if you do take the step to have a face lift… for me I’m every open about everything so if I were to do that and then deny it, that would not be authentic to me.
‘And then also it might create a space where women who felt that I was always honest with them, would think “Oh how come my jawline isn’t doing that after four kids?”‘
