Ex Football Star’s Wife, Kate Ferdinand Opens Up On The Crippling Back Pain She’s Suffering Amid Her First Pregnancy
Kate Ferdinand is expecting her first child with ex football star husband, Rio Ferdinand and has opened up on ‘struggling’ with pregnancy pain that ‘is taking a toll’.
“The truth is, I am hugely struggling with my lower back and groin! I’ve always had back problems but this is really taking its toll I don’t like to moan too much on here but the reality is I am struggling some days it’s manageable and others by the end of the day Its a struggle to even stand up.
“Getting my head around losing the ability to move freely is difficult at times, especially with 3 kids and dogs flying around the house like lunatics.”
Kate added that it is important to not only share the good moments on social media, but also the times when you might be struggling, as it could help others going through something similar.
“The reality is… we always share our best moments on social media, but it’s important to share the not so great ones too so we can learn from one another,”
she wrote.
Kate then went on to encourage her social media fans to join an app that connects pregnant women and mums so that they can exchange tips.
She and Rio, along with his three children from his first marriage – Tate, 12, Lorenz, 14, and Tia, nine – have been preparing to welcome their newest addition to their family, after Kate spoke honestly about her struggling to be a stepmum.
The expectant mom opened up in a BBC documentary earlier this year about how she coped with the children’s grief after their mum Rebecca Ellison died in 2015 of breast cancer, and confessed she found it difficult to suddenly be responsible for three kids.
“I used to get myself into such a state,” Kate admitted. “I couldn’t cook, a house that wasn’t my own… I think I found everything hard.
“Even things like the doctors, they’d ask, ‘Have the children have chicken pox?’ and I would say, ‘I don’t know’.
“I found myself not having answers to a lot of things. It was difficult.”
Luckily the three children have taken to Kate and had been begging their parents for a little sibling before the happy couple surprised them with their baby news.