EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Ryan opens up about family life with her three kids and husband Bobby, wanting more kids and juggling time at home with her stand-up career
Performing her stand-up show by night and caring for her children by day means Katherine Ryan is run off her feet. Yet despite driving for hours to make sure she’s home after nearly every gig, the mum-of-three admits she still feels overwhelmed by mum guilt. “It is different touring as a mum. I don’t mean to disparage the male comedians in my industry – some of them are wonderful, hands on dads – but I don’t see the same level of zigzagging back and forth,” she says.
The comedian has become a staple of British TV over the past decade, hosting series such as Your Face Or Mine and All That Glitters, and dominating panel shows alongside Jimmy Carr, David Mitchell, and Dara O'Briain. From popping up on The Masked Singer last year to becoming a new judge on Canada’s Got Talent, Katherine is booked and busy. Despite being one of the most successful comedians in the UK, balancing her work and personal life is still a mammoth task.
“I just forget to consider that. As a single mum, you just power ahead at your own speed. I suffer from hyper independence as a trauma response, I always say to Bobby. Now I have to learn how to trust someone else, how to consider someone else and do things not my way.” While surrogacy is popular among celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Chrissy Teigen, Katherine has ruled it out. “It’s controversial to say but I wouldn’t want that labour – both literal and also the workload – to fall on another woman,” she says. “I think surrogacy is wonderful. It’s beautiful for people who are really eager to offer it and for couples who need it but for me, I think it would be exploitative.” For now, Katherine is focusing on work. “We’ve taken this year to focus on the tour.
Unfortunately, that material is sometimes used by school bullies to taunt Violet – but she can hold her own. “Violet’s friends – or enemies – will say to her, ‘My mum says your mum has a nose job,’ which I don’t. They will try to bully her through me because there’s loads of me they can use as ammunition. They can find one of my TikToks and send it to Violet and say, ‘Your mum is so cringe.
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