‘My body was not the body I recognised’: Kate Ferdinand says she felt ‘abnormal’ and ‘overwhelmed’ adjusting to parenthood and her postpartum figure after giving birth to son Cree
She welcomed her son Cree in December with husband Rio Ferdinand.
And Kate Ferdinand has revealed that she felt ‘abnormal’ and ‘overwhelmed’ adjusting to parenthood after having her little one.
The former TOWIE star, 29, said she struggled to recognise her own body and started to panic while experiencing the ‘whirlwind of emotion’ of becoming a new mum.
Honest: Kate Ferdinand has revealed that she felt ‘abnormal’ and ‘overwhelmed’ adjusting to parenthood after giving birth to her son Cree last December (pictured 11 days after giving birth)
She told The Sun: ‘There are so many things about motherhood that no one tells you. I’d had the baby and I was in this whirlwind of emotion. My body was not the body I recognised. I felt really overwhelmed.
‘I was feeling really abnormal and I started panicking. ‘Am I meant to be feeling like this?’
She added that she considered posting glamorous pictures in the weeks after giving birth by emergency caesarean but chose not to because it wasn’t how she was really feeling.
Kate said: ‘I would love to look how I looked before Cree but I am not putting a load of pressure on myself’ (pictured in 2019)
Instead she chose to post a candid selfie 11 days after giving birth showing her postpartum figure, which revealed a significant bruise on her thigh.
Now Kate says she ‘felt like I had to share it’, adding that she received lots of messages from other women feeling the same afterwards.
She said she believes that is why it is right to ‘not share the perfect pictures all the time’.
Brave: The former TOWIE star, 29, said she struggled to recognise her own body and started to panic while experiencing the ‘whirlwind of emotion’ of becoming a new mum
The beauty went on to explain how it is hard to see out of the ‘post-pregnancy bubble’ after giving birth and said she felt like she would never go back to ‘normal’ or ‘feel the same again’.
However she added that ‘you do come out of the other side’ and ‘you will feel OK’.
Kate also admitted that when you are a new mum there is a lot of pressure to bounce back but said for her it wasn’t ‘realistic’ with having a newborn and looking after Rio’s three other children Lorenz, 13, Tate, 11, and Tia, nine.
She added: ‘I would love to look how I looked before Cree but I am not putting a load of pressure on myself because things don’t always go to plan when you have a baby.’
Candid: She added that she considered posting glamorous pictures in the weeks after giving birth by emergency caesarean but chose not to because it wasn’t how she was really feeling
Kate said she has now stopped putting pressure on herself to go to the gym every day and instead just wants to spend time with her family.
The blonde beauty also said she is now adjusting to taking son Cree out and about after lockdown restrictions have been eased.
Kate shared her candid selfie of her postpartum figure just 11 days after giving birth as she posed in black underwear holding Cree.
In the emotional post, Kate said she had been left in tears and feeling guilty as she recovered from the birth, which meant she was unable to ‘feed or change’ Cree consistently.
Doting: Kate also admitted that when you are a new mum there is a lot of pressure to bounce back but said for her it wasn’t ‘realistic’ with having a newborn
She wrote: ‘Day 11… What a bubble this is… We are so obsessed with our little angel Cree. I just seem to stare at him for hours on end, seeing the kids and him is literally what dreams are made of, feeling completely overwhelmed
‘I wanted to share this with you. This is me … and let me add this is a much better version of me than the last 10 days. After having an emergency c section, and a bit of a traumatic birth I’ve been completely wiped out.
Parents: Kate has also been looking after Rio’s three other children Lorenz, 13, Tate, 11, and Tia, nine (pictured with Rio)
‘The happiness has been overwhelming but so have the tears and emotions, I’ve felt like I can’t do what I’m meant to be doing with Cree as I haven’t been able to change or feed him consistently which has had me feeling all types of guilt, for Cree, Rio & that I can’t be doing what I normally do for the kids.
‘It’s a whirlwind I just wasn’t expecting … but at the same time the most perfect whirlwind.’
Kate added that she was progressing in her recovery, writing: ‘To be standing up holding my bubba like this is a dream right now. When we are stripped of all the things we can normally do, the small things become extra special.
‘Feeling so lucky to have my amazing husband and the kids helping me with everything.
Recovery: Kate shared her candid selfie of her postpartum figure just 11 days after giving birth as she posed in black underwear holding Cree and wrote this in the caption
‘What an amazing end to a pretty rubbish year.
‘P.S. for anyone about to give birth, make sure you have a huge stock of big black knickers, the bigger the better.’
The exercise guru embarked on a relationship with footballer Rio in 2017 and stepped back from TOWIE to become a mother figure for the trio, after his first wife, Rebecca, tragically passed away from breast cancer in 2015.
Rio proposed to Kate in November 2018 after almost two years of dating and the couple filmed a similar video to their baby announcement.
She accepted a romantic rooftop proposal from the sports legend during a family holiday to Abu Dhabi.
He popped the question in front of his three children after the former footballer was given the blessing of his late wife Rebecca to find love again.
The duo tied the knot less than a year later with a romantic ceremony taking place in September 2019 at the luxurious D Maris Bay hotel in Turkey.
In 2018, Kate revealed that Rio’s three children were keen for her to have a baby so they could have another sibling to play with.
Loved-up: The exercise guru embarked on a relationship with footballer Rio in 2017 and stepped back from TOWIE to become a mother figure for the trio, after his first wife, Rebecca, tragically passed away from breast cancer in 2015 (pictured during her pregnancy)
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