Kate Ferdinand reveals plans to have a baby with Rio and claims it’ll bring them closer together
KATE Ferdinand has revealed she's ready to have a baby with husband Rio - days after letting cameras into their marriage.
The 28-year-old former Towie star, who is stepmother to his three children, said she is ready to welcome one more child in.
Speaking on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, she said: "I said to Rio say if we have a baby when they get to five I’m going to be great.
“I know what I’m doing but that baby stage I don’t know. The kids talk about having a baby all the time. I said ‘Rio I’ve never changed a nappy, I’ve never had children!’
“I think [having a baby] will bring us all together, tighter, closer as a knit. It’s weird because when we’re in the house and it’s us five, I feel like their mum and I know I’m not their Mum and we all feel the same. I just feel like they’re my children. It’s a normal family.”
The former Towie star continued: “I always thought I wanted a big family but I’d never thought think I’d get it this way. It’s just mad when I think about it. I thought I’d have a big family but with three step kids and them losing their mum I never saw it being this way.”
Kate married Rio four years after wife Rebecca died of breast cancer in 2015 aged just 34.
She has taken on the role of stepmum to the former England captain’s sons Lorenz, 13, Tate, 11, and eight-year-old daughter Tia.
Kate previously revealed that they are all keen for her to have a baby.
She opened up about the struggles of her new role in the BBC documentary Rio And Kate: Becoming A Stepfamily.
Being very honest, she admitted: "I just felt like I wasn't accepted. Before I met Rio and the children, people took me how I was. No one really judged me that much.
"And I felt really judged. I just felt like I couldn't live up to the memory of Rebecca. I was constantly compared and I wanted to be able to be me.
"I made a lot of mistakes at the beginning because I wasn't a mum, and I felt like every mistake I was making I was being judged. I found that really difficult.
"It just felt like I couldn't be me and without being me I couldn't look after the children properly.
"I felt like I didn't get any help. I didn't know what the children liked to eat. I didn't know anything about them.
"Like, when we go to the doctors, have the children had chickenpox before? I don't know because no one has told me.
";I just felt really out of my depth. I needed help but I was just getting compared constantly."