Louise Redknapp posted a collection of sweet photos to wish her youngest son Beau a happy 17th birthday on Monday
The former Strictly Come Dancing star, 50, who also has an older son, Charley, 21, with ex-husband Jamie Redknapp, 52 – added a sweet caption to the image, which saw Beau towering over her.
She captioned the adorable Instagram post: ‘To my special baby boy words can not describe how proud I am of you!
‘My favourite times are being in the car singing at the top of our voices as I take you to football training. I love your approach to life and how you throw yourself into everything.
‘Good luck in all you have got coming your way, you’re charming, you’re fun and full of kindness and I’m so proud be your mum!
‘Happy Birthday Beau Beau… Love Mum.’
Louise Redknapp posted a collection of sweet photos to wish her youngest son Beau a happy 17th birthday on Monday
The former Strictly star, 50, showed playful moments like a younger Beau holding his mother over his shoulder
Louise also has an older son, Charley, 21, (centre) with ex husband Jamie Redknapp, 52
The proud mother wore a long denim jacket, while Beau wrapped his arm around her and kept his look casual in a white T-shirt and jeans.
Louise shared several photos in the sweet post, which showed playful moments like a younger Beau holding his mother over his shoulder.
In other pictures, Beau was seen as a small child dressed head-to-toe in a West Ham football kit – likely influenced by his retired England footballer father.
A holiday photo of Louise’s two sons in blue and pink linen shirts also revealed how fast they have grown up.
Earlier this year, Louise laid bare the brutal fallout of her split from her ex-husband Jamie and said she ‘almost gave up’ after reaching ‘the lowest a human could get.’
The former Eternal singer parted ways from her husband of 20 years following her stint on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016, and the relationship breakdown was subject to much public scrutiny.
Opening up on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, Louise said that the only thing that stopped her from reaching a lower point was her children.
She said: ‘If I didn’t have my kids, I just, I think I would have just given up. I really do.
Beau was seen as a small child dressed head to toe in a West Ham football kit – likely influenced by his retired footballer father
Louise pictured with her arm wrapped around Beau when he was a younger boy
A holiday photo of Louise’s two sons in blue and pink linen shirts also revealed how fast they have grown up
‘I think I just knew that my kids were my everything and they needed me.’
The singer admitted that the public scrutiny of her marriage breakdown made the situation even harder to deal with.
Louise explained: ‘But I can honestly say, when you’re going through something so personal in your own turmoil in your own way, but then to get the barrage of judgment and nastiness.
‘I was going through a lot as it was, I was trying to be strong for my kids, whatever had gone on in our life was private – which I do believe that you’re entitled to no matter what.
‘And God, I was such a villain, and I was breaking like I was absolutely breaking.
‘Beyond what I thought it was possible for a human to break and all along I’m still trying to be a mum.’
Last month, Jamie revealed his eldest son Charley didn’t react well when he first told him he would be having a son with his model wife Frida Andersson.
The retired footballer welcomed son Raphael, three, with Frida in November 2021.
Jamie and Louise split in 2017 after 19 years of marriage (pictured together in 2016)
The proud mother captioned Beau’s birthday post: ‘To my special baby boy words can not describe how proud I am of you!’
During an appearance on The Romesh Ranganathan Show, Jamie admitted he is ‘a bit more relaxed’ as a father this time around.
In a rare insight into his private life, the star discussed how his older sons felt when they learned he was having another baby with Frida.
Asked what the most difficult part of having another child was, he said: ‘It was actually telling the kids that they were going to have a younger brother.
‘It didn’t go down that well with Charley, I’ve got to be honest. I went to pick him up at school and tell him Frida was pregnant [and] it went down like a lead balloon, if I’m honest.’
Jamie, who split from Louise in 2017 after 19 years of marriage, said he understood his son’s reaction.
‘I got it, I totally understood it because his had been turned upside down – you’re married, everything feels straightforward, and then you meet someone else and you get married again,’ he said.
The footballer added that he knew ‘nothing was going to change from Charley and Beau’s aspect’.
