While comedian Katherine Ryan tells us she’s “knackered” from looking after a baby and a toddler, you’d never know it from looking at her.
Whether it’s her revived relationship with her childhood sweetheart Bobby Kootstra, or her breastfeeding hormones, her famously smooth skin is glowing and her hair and make-up are on point.
Whichever it is, getting older is doing wonders for the Canadian-born creator and star of The Duchess, who has just celebrated her 40th birthday.
“I like getting older, even though I don’t look as incredible as I once did, especially since the babies,” she tells us. “I think
I’m a lot more realistic and self-assured about my looks. I don’t mind – it’s not all about my appearance.”
The “babies” Katherine is referring to are the two children she shares with Bobby – two-year-old Fred, and seven-month-old Fenna Grace. She’s also mum to 14-year-old Violet, from a previous relationship, who she had at 25.
So, given her age now, and the fact she’s juggling working mum life, does Katherine think she and Bobby will have any more children?
“Yes, I do, if we can,” she says firmly. “Right now, I think if we had another one, it would be an injustice to the baby [Fenna]. I think she needs to have our time a bit, and we’re knackered. That’s the thing about having two under two at 40.
“I love the children so much, but I do have to juggle working, and the reality is I don’t work as much when I have small children. You have to make sacrifices. People ask whether you can have it all, but you cannot have it all at once.”
There’s something else she admits she’s sacrificed since having her babies: pert boobs. After previously having breast implants, then breastfeeding two infants virtually back-to-back, she’s considering going back under the knife.
“My breast implants are quite small, and about 20 years old, but now that I’m breastfeeding, my boobs are a mess!” she jokes, adding that she’s considering a reduction. “I like small boobs now. I look at Kendall Jenner and I think she looks so neat, but I’m always breastfeeding so I can’t have surgery.”
While Katherine loves being pregnant, it hasn’t always been easy for her. She suffered two miscarriages – at 10 weeks and 12 weeks – during the pandemic. Miscarriage isn’t an easy topic to address, even for someone as outspoken and honest as Katherine.
“There’s a shame attached to it – that you’ve failed somehow, or your body betrayed you,” she says. “It’s such an isolating experience, but I think people are talking about it more now.”
For almost a decade, it was just Katherine and Violet, until she reunited with childhood sweetheart Bobby, 40, and moved him into their London home.
She’s spoken in the past about her heartbreak when she was dumped by her high-school prom date, but they got back together after bumping into each other in Sarnia, Ontario, when Katherine was filming BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are?
“It’s a lovely story, and a lot of people have connected with it, because I think many people secretly have a crush on their first love,” she says. “It just so happened that it was this time in our lives when we were both single.”
In 2019, the couple eloped with Violet in tow to have a “no fuss” civil partnership ceremony in Denmark, because Katherine says she “just felt like I didn’t want to have a wedding”.
However, despite their happy ending, Katherine doesn’t love the “what’s meant to be, will be” trope.
“It’s difficult to say that to people, because I think those who are looking for love want to take action, they want to do something – be on the apps,” she says. “It’s annoying to hear that phrase, and consider what the universe has planned for you. But we weren’t looking for each other at all – and then it was just the right time and the right place.”
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