Katherine Ryan

[Noname123]

Her podcast is a reflection of her life, when she started it I absolutely loved it. It was funny, witty and interesting. Now 2/3 years later she’s married to a bore with two kids who she doesn’t put down so that’s what she talks about. Did appreciate that this weeks podcast didn’t have much mention of them though.

I remember in lockdown there was an insta pic of her drinking wine in tracksuits with Bobby in their garden in the sun. I thought she’d hit the jackpot!

Totally lost her spark which is sad.

 

[Natterbox80]

I listen to podcasts to live vicariously though others, hear about seriel killers or have a laugh. But to hear the humdrum boring ramblings of some other woman pushing 40 with a mundane life is just a snoozefest.

Parts of her life are surely not that boring but she talks about the boring parts that literally noone cares about.

 

[Venuslurker]

I actually quite liked this week, found the turkey stuff interesting and funny and lolled at the rat gaslighting.

Please Stop calling Fred's nanny his "assistant", it's so demeaning.

 

[maytoseptember]

So the nanny has been upgraded from babysitter to assistant? God Katherine, for all your flexing about the things you can afford, why be bashful about having a nanny?

 

[emeraldopal]

So the nanny has been upgraded from babysitter to assistant? God Katherine, for all your flexing about the things you can afford, why be bashful about having a nanny?

Fred's assistant, no less. It really grinds my gears too. That kid really comes across to me as a handful, and his nanny gets referred to as his assistant?!

 

[hmmm_no]

Fred's assistant, no less. It really grinds my gears too. That kid really comes across to me as a handful, and his nanny gets referred to as his assistant?!

Oh man, wow. Is it bad that this has me cracking up? Not at how Katherine is diminishing the status of the person who cares for her child, but at the notion that a two??? year old needs an assistant. Oh man. Is he CEO of the playroom?

 

[Ferret]

She admits she has spoilt violet and now seems to be going the same way with Fred and Fenna. It’s a shame.
She won’t go to Turkey for the liposuction. Bobby won’t let her!

 

[emeraldopal]

Oh man, wow. Is it bad that this has me cracking up? Not at how Katherine is diminishing the status of the person who cares for her child, but at the notion that a two??? year old needs an assistant. Oh man. Is he CEO of the playroom?

It is a bit of an odd joke to be sure...

 

[Natterbox80]

She was calling him boss baby so the nanny is his assistant, I took it as a joke when it was first said tbf. But to continue calling the nanny an assistant is BS.

 

[Love_hate_small_town]

I like how honest she is about thinking about surgery. She places a lot of emphasis on being attractive and admits it. I think it’s refreshing to hear someone be honest about it. It’s not for me and I think it’s a terrible idea but I’m fairness she shared her thought process which seemed to end with her not wanting to take the risk and there would be a lot of people in her shoes considering cut price surgery.

As for BK…. Again I do think she’s being honest. I don’t love the sound of him but no relationship is perfect and I feel like she is again just being honest. There are many red flags for me personally but a lot of my friends’ partners wave red flags. Sometimes I genuinely think they need to leave asap but other times it’s just a typical non perfect relationship. For example, one friend’s husband doesn’t like her working since kids (also wouldn’t bag her when pregnant but that’s by the by). He doesn’t stop her but just discourages it. For me, massive red flag but she just ignores it. Out of my group of friends they always seem one of the most genuinely loving and sweet couples when out and about. Another couple show all the outward signs of being perfect. Gorgeous insta pics and declarations of love every Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, sodding birthdays etc praising each other to the hilt but on many occasions I have heard them rip each other to shreds thinking they are out of earshot. Also know they never ever bag. So my point is that he can be a bit of a lawn gob and want to try anal (every single man) and they could genuinely be happy. Sure she will have changed but you do change in a couple. I
Think they will be together long term.

 

[femmegirly]

I like how honest she is about thinking about surgery. She places a lot of emphasis on being attractive and admits it. I think it’s refreshing to hear someone be honest about it. It’s not for me and I think it’s a terrible idea but I’m fairness she shared her thought process which seemed to end with her not wanting to take the risk and there would be a lot of people in her shoes considering cut price surgery.

As for BK…. Again I do think she’s being honest. I don’t love the sound of him but no relationship is perfect and I feel like she is again just being honest. There are many red flags for me personally but a lot of my friends’ partners wave red flags. Sometimes I genuinely think they need to leave asap but other times it’s just a typical non perfect relationship. For example, one friend’s husband doesn’t like her working since kids (also wouldn’t bag her when pregnant but that’s by the by). He doesn’t stop her but just discourages it. For me, massive red flag but she just ignores it. Out of my group of friends they always seem one of the most genuinely loving and sweet couples when out and about. Another couple show all the outward signs of being perfect. Gorgeous insta pics and declarations of love every Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, sodding birthdays etc praising each other to the hilt but on many occasions I have heard them rip each other to shreds thinking they are out of earshot. Also know they never ever bag. So my point is that he can be a bit of a lawn gob and want to try anal (every single man) and they could genuinely be happy. Sure she will have changed but you do change in a couple. I
Think they will be together long term.

I agree with this. He’s a gob but his knobbishness is clearly not a dealbreaker for Katherine. I know plenty of women with worse men tbh. I just think we held her to a higher standard because she placed herself as a single mother feminist with almost ambivalence towards men.

 

[mrsdewinter]

I like how honest she is about thinking about surgery. She places a lot of emphasis on being attractive and admits it. I think it’s refreshing to hear someone be honest about it. It’s not for me and I think it’s a terrible idea but I’m fairness she shared her thought process which seemed to end with her not wanting to take the risk and there would be a lot of people in her shoes considering cut price surgery.

As for BK…. Again I do think she’s being honest. I don’t love the sound of him but no relationship is perfect and I feel like she is again just being honest. There are many red flags for me personally but a lot of my friends’ partners wave red flags. Sometimes I genuinely think they need to leave asap but other times it’s just a typical non perfect relationship. For example, one friend’s husband doesn’t like her working since kids (also wouldn’t bag her when pregnant but that’s by the by). He doesn’t stop her but just discourages it. For me, massive red flag but she just ignores it. Out of my group of friends they always seem one of the most genuinely loving and sweet couples when out and about. Another couple show all the outward signs of being perfect. Gorgeous insta pics and declarations of love every Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, sodding birthdays etc praising each other to the hilt but on many occasions I have heard them rip each other to shreds thinking they are out of earshot. Also know they never ever bag. So my point is that he can be a bit of a lawn gob and want to try anal (every single man) and they could genuinely be happy. Sure she will have changed but you do change in a couple. I
Think they will be together long term.

I do agree that they'll be together for the long haul and I also do think they love each other - I just can't necessarily understand why, from Katherine's perspective! She just seems unreasonably in awe of him to me. It irks me to hear her complaining about how stressed and tired she is with working so much and looking after the babies when it seems obvious that BK could be taking some of the load off. Doesn't he want to? Perhaps she doesn't let him do much (wouldn't be a huge surprise to me).

If I were as wealthy as Katherine from a job I supposedly loved, it would be such a pleasure to me to financially support my husband and give him a life of luxury, but then that's based on the fact that we've had many years together in which I've seen how hard he works, what a great and present father he is, and all the other amazing things he brings to the table.

 

[Simba88]

I do agree that they'll be together for the long haul and I also do think they love each other - I just can't necessarily understand why, from Katherine's perspective! She just seems unreasonably in awe of him to me. It irks me to hear her complaining about how stressed and tired she is with working so much and looking after the babies when it seems obvious that BK could be taking some of the load off. Doesn't he want to? Perhaps she doesn't let him do much (wouldn't be a huge surprise to me).

If I were as wealthy as Katherine from a job I supposedly loved, it would be such a pleasure to me to financially support my husband and give him a life of luxury, but then that's based on the fact that we've had many years together in which I've seen how hard he works, what a great and present father he is, and all the other amazing things he brings to the table.

I think she is a control freak who won’t let anyone do anything to help. It took her a long time to hire a nanny but I think she’s had to admit defeat and hire one since Fenna was born, however it is odd that she would rather hire a nanny than let Bobby parent his own child…

 

[Natterbox80]

I like how honest she is about thinking about surgery. She places a lot of emphasis on being attractive and admits it. I think it’s refreshing to hear someone be honest about it. It’s not for me and I think it’s a terrible idea but I’m fairness she shared her thought process which seemed to end with her not wanting to take the risk and there would be a lot of people in her shoes considering cut price surgery.

As for BK…. Again I do think she’s being honest. I don’t love the sound of him but no relationship is perfect and I feel like she is again just being honest. There are many red flags for me personally but a lot of my friends’ partners wave red flags. Sometimes I genuinely think they need to leave asap but other times it’s just a typical non perfect relationship. For example, one friend’s husband doesn’t like her working since kids (also wouldn’t bag her when pregnant but that’s by the by). He doesn’t stop her but just discourages it. For me, massive red flag but she just ignores it. Out of my group of friends they always seem one of the most genuinely loving and sweet couples when out and about. Another couple show all the outward signs of being perfect. Gorgeous insta pics and declarations of love every Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, sodding birthdays etc praising each other to the hilt but on many occasions I have heard them rip each other to shreds thinking they are out of earshot. Also know they never ever bag. So my point is that he can be a bit of a lawn gob and want to try anal (every single man) and they could genuinely be happy. Sure she will have changed but you do change in a couple. I
Think they will be together long term.

Hate to play devils advocate, but eh can she not use the gym at the end of her garden?? She is giving, lazy lard ass vibes which is not appealing to me. She has perfect skin, perfect labia, perfect life, perfect partner. But won't lift some weights and eat healthy to get a nicer body and wants lipo

I didn't listen to podcast, does BK say her body is fine or needs work?? She must be insecure he might want someone who is fit looking.

 

[mrsdewinter]

Hate to play devils advocate, but eh can she not use the gym at the end of her garden?? She is giving, lazy lard ass vibes which is not appealing to me. She has perfect skin, perfect labia, perfect life, perfect partner. But won't lift some weights and eat healthy to get a nicer body and wants lipo

I didn't listen to podcast, does BK say her body is fine or needs work?? She must be insecure he might want someone who is fit looking.

No, BK doesn't want her to have lipo and there's been no suggestion whatsoever that he has any negative opinions about Katherine's body. I think she just wants it for her own sake. She mentioned specifics about her weight and how much she's gained, but I think she needs to be a bit kinder to herself considering the back-to-back pregnancies and not being in her early-twenties anymore. She looks great, IMO.

 

[Ferret]

I agree with this. He’s a gob but his knobbishness is clearly not a dealbreaker for Katherine. I know plenty of women with worse men tbh. I just think we held her to a higher standard because she placed herself as a single mother feminist with almost ambivalence towards men.

This is exactly what I think too. It feels like she has sold out.
But fair play to her if she’s happy. There are worse knobs out there (I’ve met a few!)

 

[Natterbox80]

No, BK doesn't want her to have lipo and there's been no suggestion whatsoever that he has any negative opinions about Katherine's body. I think she just wants it for her own sake. She mentioned specifics about her weight and how much she's gained, but I think she needs to be a bit kinder to herself considering the back-to-back pregnancies and not being in her early-twenties anymore. She looks great, IMO.

Acceptance of your new body or work hard/actually go to the gym, that is the best way. Not going to Turkey off all places for risky lipo when I am pretty sure she could afford to have it in UK.

I hate to sound harsh but sick of people complaining about their post baby bodies when change is achievable. You just have to bloody well work for it and not everyone can be arsed, which is also everyone's perogative. But just accept you are not going to have the body you want without hard work/surgery.

 

[Shugsyshalone]

I agree with this. He’s a gob but his knobbishness is clearly not a dealbreaker for Katherine. I know plenty of women with worse men tbh. I just think we held her to a higher standard because she placed herself as a single mother feminist with almost ambivalence towards men.

As a long time fan of hers it is mostly a feeling of being disappointed because it almost looks like her single mother feminist with almost ambivalence towards men personality that appealed to so many women and was a breath of fresh air was just a persona or an act and now this is her true self……….maybe she is just sucked into that life for now because she has had 2 babies back to back and lost herself a little through sheer exhaustion of being a mother of babies. All for people embracing their true self not bashing that at all but it is such a swing from her former message she was putting out there into the world ………….

 

[Love_hate_small_town]

I agree with this. He’s a gob but his knobbishness is clearly not a dealbreaker for Katherine. I know plenty of women with worse men tbh. I just think we held her to a higher standard because she placed herself as a single mother feminist with almost ambivalence towards men.

Yeah I agree but I remember her talking ages ago about how she always practises gratitude and I think she strongly loves by this. She is a ‘words of affirmation’ kind of person too so when she was single she was grateful for her single life and her bond with violet and her friends and then when she got with BK she went all in with gratitude for her relationship etc.

My husband and I got married pretty quickly and had similar situation in some ways (from different countries) and there were definite honeymoon years where he was perfect and then two kids later pretty close together tested that for sure!

I feel like she had an idea of what BK would be like as a father and he maybe half meets that expectation. He clearly doesn’t want to be a house husband but also doesn’t appear to be working and that’s the bit that annoys me. It would be different with katheryn was taking a year off and they were just enjoying being a family but she’s still trying to juggle everything including play dates for bk.

 

[Natterbox80]

Where she loses it for me is not making him step up and be the house husband he must have said he would be, and then complains about it on her podcast. It clearly bothers her no end as she mentions him golfing almost every one and all his other parenting flaws.

I personally have no issue with my husband not working outside the house, but he knows the kids and the house are his job and not mine in the week. So I do not lift a finger Monday to Friday and I do bare minimum parenting until the weekend. What exactly does BK provide her other than his seed and his right wing chauvinist views?

It is sad when women lose themselves esp when in this instance she has so much help, she has a nanny a SAHH/D and still feels she has to do it all. She is not winning in life with BK as her husband.