She might be a loving mother to her three children but Katherine Ryan has recognized how different her life is now that she's a mother.
The 40-year-old comedian has been honest about her parenting and life as a married mom with husband and childhood sweetheart Bobby Kootstra.
While she often talks about the realities of being a mom, Katherine previously admitted to Metro.co.uk that she regretting sharing her co-sleeping advice.
She shares her youngest two children — Fenna Grace, 14 months old and Fred, two — with Bobby and daughter Violet, 14, with ex-boyfriend Alex Edelman.
Now the Celebrity Gogglebox star has revealed how her life has changed since having kids, saying they ‘ruined’ what she had before.
‘My children have made my life better, they’re a gift and I would never exchange them for anything,’ Katherine told Women Magazine.
The Roast Battle icon continued: ‘But I would be lying if I said they didn’t ruin the life I had before. But I built a better one and that’s okay.
‘I would be pretending if I said that I could still do all the things that I could before and I think we’re selling this fantasy of what motherhood means if we aren’t honest about that.’
In her comedy shows, Katherine has often joked about a wild youth which changed dramatically once Violet arrived and she became a single mother.
Bobby previously admitted he wants his ‘sexy wife’ back in their bed as part of the family’s reality series Katherine Ryan: Parental Guidance.
The couple use co-sleeping for their kids as Katherine explained: ‘We’re both co-sleeping with someone. Bobby sleeps with Fred because I’m sleeping with Fenna. It’s really good for the children to have that.’
However, the confession garnered a lot of backlash from other parents who didn’t approve of the method.
‘I feel like, I really believe in it,’ the Duchess star told Metro.co.uk. ‘I think that you respond to your children’s needs immediately, and you’re very patient with them learning to feed themselves and learning to walk.
‘But in a lot of homes, we’re not patient about them learning to soothe themselves to sleep.’
