MUM'S THE WORD
Kate Ferdinand opens up on Rio’s kids’ reaction when she calls herself their ‘Mum’
KATE Ferdinand says her three stepkids have told her not to worry if she mistakenly calls herself Mum instead of Kate.
But her cheeky two-year-old biological son Cree sometimes deliberately calls her Kate instead of Mummy.
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The former Towie star became stepmum to Lorenz, 16, Tate, 14, and Tia, 12, after getting together with ex-England star Rio Ferdinand and marrying in 2019.
His wife Rebecca Ellison had died of breast cancer in 2015, aged 34.
Kate told the Happy Place podcast: “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’.
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“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’.”
Recently Kate revealed she sobbed her heart out after not getting a card on her first Mother's Day living with Rio and her three step-children.
She said: "I wasn't a biological mum.
"I think it was our first Mother's Day - maybe I'd been living here about six months, something like that.
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"And although I wasn't a biological mum I kind of felt like I'd taken on the mum role.
"For me, going from living at home on my own to taking the kids to school, cooking them dinner, I felt like a mum."
Speaking to Rio - who also lost his own mother Janice in 2017 - on her Blended podcast, she continued: "I really thought I might get a card from you, and I didn't get a card from you.
";I felt bad to express that in front of you because you guys had lost your mum, and the kids have lost their mum.
"So I just went in my room and I just sobbed my heart out - seriously."
"And then I felt selfish for wanting a card, 'How dare I want a card?'
"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."
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