Katherine Ryan

[hmmm_no]

Same girl, same.




She’s going to have a breakdown if she isn’t careful. Some women love to act like pregnancy and birth is no big deal, and any woman who found it difficult or traumatic is just making a fuss out of nothing. “Pregnancy isn’t an illness, guys!” etc. It’s just classic pick me behaviour.

But the problem with that is not allowing yourself to rest or heal, physically or mentally. Clearly she just wants to project a tough girl image but jeez, no one will give you a medal for jumping straight back into work.



Sounds like she fell into a woo-woo hypnobirthing rabbit hole that brainwashes women into believing an easy birth can be achieved by anyone if they want it badly enough.

Word. There's no glory in never taking a break and there's no shame in stopping to enjoy your new kiddo.

I gave birth on Monday early morning and went back to work Friday afternoon because a) he died shortly after birth and I needed to GFTO of my house and my head and b) I was 20 and working slightly over minimum wage with no family or maternity leave and couldn't afford to not work.

A good friend went back to work after two and a half weeks because she couldn't afford not to work.

A colleague came back to work after a week because her babies were born eleven weeks premature and in the NICU and she wanted to save her very limited maternity leave for when they came home.

Being able to brag about not taking a maternity leave is a reaaaaaaaaaally bleeping privileged thing to do. She looooves to tit on Americans but if she had to live here for a month she'd change her bleeping tune real quick.

Also, Violet saying she looks like the Statue of Liberty in drag is the best thing I've heard in a long time.

 

[Lalalalaaaaaa85]

Word. There's no glory in never taking a break and there's no shame in stopping to enjoy your new kiddo.

I gave birth on Monday early morning and went back to work Friday afternoon because a) he died shortly after birth and I needed to GFTO of my house and my head and b) I was 20 and working slightly over minimum wage with no family or maternity leave and couldn't afford to not work.

A good friend went back to work after two and a half weeks because she couldn't afford not to work.

A colleague came back to work after a week because her babies were born eleven weeks premature and in the NICU and she wanted to save her very limited maternity leave for when they came home.

Being able to brag about not taking a maternity leave is a reaaaaaaaaaally bleeping privileged thing to do. She looooves to tit on Americans but if she had to live here for a month she'd change her bleeping tune real quick.

Also, Violet saying she looks like the Statue of Liberty in drag is the best thing I've heard in a long time.

Im so sorry for your loss when you were 20. I can’t even comprehend the pain you’ve been through. I hope life has been kinder to you since x

 

[hmmm_no]

Im so sorry for your loss when you were 20. I can’t even comprehend the pain you’ve been through. I hope life has been kinder to you since x

Thank you so much. It has, I have lots of godbabies and nephews to love!

 

[femmegirly]

I came off social media (so havent see her posts for a good while). Watched her Missus stand up special, and couldn’t believe the difference in her. Immediately reactivated insta and shocked to see the kids faces all over it uncensored.

I was ready for some jokes at mens expense - what she is known for and why I enjoy her stand-up, and it was just her bragging about her new man, who is not that hot btw. He looks like a balloon with a thin wispy moustache drawn on. He looks like the kind of guy who peaked in high school but still thinks he’s it when in actual fact, he’s just another unemployed dude leaching off his girlfriend.

KR’s special was overly self-deprecating making jokes about her boobs, and how her man is better looking than her etc. She comes across as having much lower self esteem now. Disappointing as she’s always been so confident in herself and didn’t need a man in her life to make her complete.

She was saying that retrospectively she was miserable single (dating too many crap men). It smacked to me of when formerly large celebs who claimed to be happy with their bodies and encouraging body positivity in their audience, then lose all the weight and proclaim to the same audience that they actually hated being large and they are so much happier thinner while they flog their fitness dvds.

After watching that special, I would no longer describe her as a feminist. She is also very tight with Jimmy Carr whose stand up is just constant misogyny - sexist, grape, pedophilia jokes. His stand up is nothing like his work on 8 out of 10 cats or big Quiz. Her now agreeing with Andrew Tate comes as no shock. She isn’t a feminist. Not anymore at least. She’s turned into a pickme. Something that she used to laugh at. But maybe she’s always been one? She worked at Hooters after all.

Bobby dumped her as a teen and she obviously never got over it. He’s back with her for the money and lifestyle and she seems just so pathetically grateful. She spent the entire special trying to convince everyone how happy she is, but it sounded more like she was trying to convince herself.

Violet used to come first. Now it’s clear that Bobby has pushed her into second, third or fourth position.

And I don’t for a second believe that Violet says any of these snappy put-downs. Those segments have major ‘that happened’ energy.

 

[Millais]

I wonder if she’ll use nappies and potties for the new baby, or do the very achievable ‘hover over the baby 24/7 and whisk it away and dangle it over a toilet the second it gets poo face’ thing she did with the last one, which I’m sure every parent working in Tesco/an office building/the local hospital could fit into their life if they just tried a bit harder.

 

[thegirlscout]

Yep! We're having the same conversation here. She's saying sexual things to get a reaction, which he's not giving (it's like he finds her annoying) and then he's saying horrible things about her and Violet "shitting yourselves all last Christmas" which is a whole selfish problem in itself (as though being poorly was to upset him), but the thing we had a major problem with was that he was talking about a little girl being unwell in really embarrassing terms when she's not involved and she has to go to school and see other people who know about this. Terrible twit of a man.

Violet referred to him as Dad last year which I thought was cute but now I’m wondering if she’s forced to speak like that?
And I remember Katherine posting a photo of her and Bobby before they got married and Violet wasn’t happy and she was joking about it.

 

[MarshMallowMonster]

KR is on too many shows now, I try not to watch her as I just don’t find her funny. She tries too hoard.

Over Xmas she was on a few shoes as a guest alongside her fella and with Violet on one of them. All very orchestrated and lots of exaggeration/ lying for comedy effect.

KR is totally tight with Carr. He is less funny these days, perhaps they share the same plastic surgeons….

 

[Basketweaver]

Jimmy Carr equals deeply unfunny. I watched the duchess a few years ago... it had some vaguely funny bits and her outfits and the houses in it were so fab but the whole premise was all over the shop I felt....I've never really gotten the hype around her tbh

 

[MarshMallowMonster]

I think she used to aim for shock factor with vulgar put-downs but she does that less and less now she rather plays a frivolous non-chalant type of character.

Her plastic face makes it difficult to take her seriously as a performer.

I recall some part of her early act was about being a single mum.

JC has definitely been a platform for her. He is horrid.

 

[Natterbox80]

It is actually crazy to witness the complete 180 on KR on this thread. I started off praising her a little and now it is all pretty much negative (from me too).

KR said on tv show that in hindsight she was miserable single. She said as recent as last podcast episode she was v happily single before BK. I think she is losing the plot!!

 

[Sir Lancelot]

I watched her and her man (and Violet) on a christmas thing last night. I haven't seen him before and he seemed like a boorish oaf, moaning he had to do 'everything' last year because she was ill. What a nob

 

[Mycatoliver]

He couldn’t try and act more uninterested if he tried. He wasn’t laughing at any of her jokes.
My husband finds me hilarious (even if no one else does)
It was awful to watch. She was trying so hard to get his interest and attention
He seemed embarrassed to be anywhere near her
And then the cry me a river moaning about his worst Christmas ever because his wife and kids had Norovirus and he had do some bleeping wrapping of presents
This anecdote wasn’t down with humour or compassion or meant to me funny
It was straight up resentment that a grown a man had to fend for himself on Christmas Eve
He’s deeply unattractive
He reminds me of a year 9 boy trying to be too cool for school
What a total tit
And to KR hun he’s just not that into you and no matter what you do he’s not going to change

my husband was really shocked at his behaviour and my husband doesn’t notice many things like that but he was like who is that total twit

 

[Sir Lancelot]

He couldn’t try and act more uninterested if he tried. He wasn’t laughing at any of her jokes.
My husband finds me hilarious (even if no one else does)
It was awful to watch. She was trying so hard to get his interest and attention
He seemed embarrassed to be anywhere near her
And then the cry me a river moaning about his worst Christmas ever because his wife and kids had Norovirus and he had do some bleeping wrapping of presents
This anecdote wasn’t down with humour or compassion or meant to me funny
It was straight up resentment that a grown a man had to fend for himself on Christmas Eve
He’s deeply unattractive
He reminds me of a year 9 boy trying to be too cool for school
What a total tit
And to KR hun he’s just not that into you and no matter what you do he’s not going to change

my husband was really shocked at his behaviour and my husband doesn’t notice many things like that but he was like who is that total twit

Your husband is a wise man...

 

[femmegirly]

My mum has always told me that men who are in their 30s or 40s and are single - there’s something wrong with them. I think that’s clearly the case with Bobby. I think he’s a (former?) player who now wants to be famous. She’s acting like Katie Price bringing her kid and partner into the limelight and having so many babies so quickly, not to mention the surgery and fillers. I think she wants her own ‘family’ reality tv series next.

Also I’m not saying that she needed to stay single to be a feminist. But her new boyfriend seems to be her entire personality now. Plenty of feminists have boyfriends or husbands, but to make her entire standup special with him as the focus, to let him leech off her financially, to bring him on shows with her etc is just such a shark jump into very unfeminist territory. The bulk of her audience won’t like that.

 

[Eurgh]

It’s like when you have a mate that starts bringing her boyfriend out all the time and you try to ask why and it’s ‘because he really wants to come and I didn’t want to upset him’ but he totally ruins the vibe and nobody can talk freely or have fun anymore and you’re not supposed to mention her exes. That guy.

He dresses like he’s in an N-Sync tribute band in 2002 and seems like a lazy, controlling, sexist twit.

Also, she’s talked about Violet being bullied at school so I wonder if her being on blue tick insta all the time now is to try and make her the cool girl at school?

 

[Eltonjohnsflorist]

My countries health service has spoken about how studies have shown that even one drink in pregancy can lead to FAS. Looking around there are a LOT of people with it in Ireland. I am dead against drinking at all in pregancy, but when the baby is out do whatever the F you want even if nursing.

There has never been a case of one drink, or light drinking causing FAS. I learnt about it extensively for a research project about 5 years ago. If there has been a case since I’d love to hear about it.

The reality is this is scaremongering. FAS is a result of heavy drinking throughout pregnancy from alcohol addicted women. If anyone tells you anecdotally this isn’t the case I would assume they are a functioning, secret alcoholic rather than a medical miracle

ETA- oops sorry the last 4 pages didn’t show for me and I’ve replied to an old comment!

 

[emeraldopal]

My mum has always told me that men who are in their 30s or 40s and are single - there’s something wrong with them. I think that’s clearly the case with Bobby. I think he’s a (former?) player who now wants to be famous. She’s acting like Katie Price bringing her kid and partner into the limelight and having so many babies so quickly, not to mention the surgery and fillers. I think she wants her own ‘family’ reality tv series next.

Also I’m not saying that she needed to stay single to be a feminist. But her new boyfriend seems to be her entire personality now. Plenty of feminists have boyfriends or husbands, but to make her entire standup special with him as the focus, to let him leech off her financially, to bring him on shows with her etc is just such a shark jump into very unfeminist territory. The bulk of her audience won’t like that.

O I dunno about your first point - he's actually been married before anyway, but I think its possible for a man to get to his 30s or 40s not having met someone to settle down with and that doesn't necessarily mean he's defective! Ironically, BK actually said something similar on the podcast about how if a woman hasn't been in a long term relationship by her 30s there must be something wrong with her...when that went down like a lead balloon with the podcast audience, KR backtracked on his behalf saying thats not what he'd meant and she had 'edited him badly'

I don't get the vibe he particularly wants to be famous either; he definitely doesn't seem to mind the limelight sometimes, but often looks like he'd rather be elsewhere on red carpets! (plus surely he'd dress better if he cared...)
The sense I get is that he's quite controlling and seems to be moulding KR into something so much more submissive and meek than she was. Another poster pointed out that KR had said of any babies they had together, the girls would be Ryan like her and Violet, and the boys would be Kootstra like him. Then lo and behold, when they have a girl together...surname Kootstra...

What was the show they were on last night on C4? I want a nosey so I can do more judging people I've never met and seem to be developing a thesis about

 

[femmegirly]

Has violet had her hair dyed blonde too? She’s 13. Is that what 13 year olds do now? I might be completely out of touch but I’d never allow my daughters to dye their hair at that age.

O I dunno about your first point - he's actually been married before anyway, but I think its possible for a man to get to his 30s or 40s not having met someone to settle down with and that doesn't necessarily mean he's defective! Ironically, BK actually said something similar on the podcast about how if a woman hasn't been in a long term relationship by her 30s there must be something wrong with her...when that went down like a lead balloon with the podcast audience, KR backtracked on his behalf saying thats not what he'd meant and she had 'edited him badly'

I don't get the vibe he particularly wants to be famous either; he definitely doesn't seem to mind the limelight sometimes, but often looks like he'd rather be elsewhere on red carpets! (plus surely he'd dress better if he cared...)
The sense I get is that he's quite controlling and seems to be moulding KR into something so much more submissive and meek than she was. Another poster pointed out that KR had said of any babies they had together, the girls would be Ryan like her and Violet, and the boys would be Kootstra like him. Then lo and behold, when they have a girl together...surname Kootstra...

What was the show they were on last night on C4? I want a nosey so I can do more judging people I've never met and seem to be developing a thesis about

After posting that comment I realised how terrible it sounded. If I heard a man saying that about women, that would be a huge red flag.

 

[StSaturnindeLucian]

What was the program? I am intrigues I was going to look on catchup

 

[Sir Lancelot]

What was the program? I am intrigues I was going to look on catchup

Celebrity Christmas Hell, Channel 4, hosted by Johnny Vegas