KATE Ferdinand has admitted she is worried about becoming a mum to a newborn as she has zero experience with small babies.
Kate, who tonight confirmed she is expecting her first child with footie ace Rio Ferdinand, recently confessed that she has never even changed a nappy.
The former Towie star, 29, is already step-mum to Rio’s three children Lorenz, 13, Tate, 11, and nine-year-old Tia, from his marriage to late wife Rebecca.
But she feels unprepared to look after a teeny one.
Just four months ago, Kate said: “I’m not going to be able to cope!
“I said to Rio, ‘Say if we have a baby, once they get to five I’m going to great. I know what I’m doing, guys, it’s fine. But that baby stage, I don’t know’.
“I said, ‘Rio, I’ve never changed a nappy’. He was like, ‘What?!’ But I haven’t had children and I don’t have brothers and sisters. I haven’t got nieces and nephews.
“He was like, ‘Wow’. I said, ‘Well you can change them, because you’ve had three!’ He said, ‘I don’t think so!’”
She added: “It’s going to be a big adjustment, because I feel like I know the older stage of being a mum but not to a newborn.”
Kate also revealed her concerns at juggling a baby around Lorenz, Tate and Tia.
During the interview on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, she admitted: “The thing that I worry about is after school clubs.
“At the moment, we’ve got three kids with after school clubs all on different days. I can’t imagine a newborn in the mix.
“And the baby being asleep and me needing to put it in the car to take it to a club. It’s more that dynamic that I worry about.”
Together with Rio, Kate announced their baby news on Thursday evening.
The former reality star, who has suffered early bouts of morning sickness, secretly filmed the moment they told Lorenz, Tate and Tia.
The kids screamed and jumped up and down with excitement as they were told they’re getting a new brother or sister.
They didn’t realise they were on camera while looking through baby snaps with step-mum Kate and dad Rio.
After reading out a message revealing Kate is expecting a baby, she told the kids: “I’m pregnant”, before revealing her bump and asking: “Have you not noticed guys?”
Although she was not believed to be pregnant at the time of recording, Kate told Giovanna that a baby will make the family unit “tighter”.
She said: “I think it will bring us all together, tighter, closer as a knit.”
Kate added: “It excites me but it scares me as well. I feel like… I’ve started going back to do a bit of work and it not taking away from family life.
“It’s all sort of under control and it feels good, so to go to that feeling of madness again, it’s a bit scary. But it’s exciting as well.”
Kate said that Tia is “desperate” for a baby sister.
Three years ago, Kate fell for Rio and later moved into the family home.
At the Ferdinand’s Kent mansion, walls were adorned with family photos featuring Rebecca, who died from breast cancer aged just 34.
She endured a tough spell and gingerly tried to pick up the pieces following the mum-of-three’s tragic death in 2015.
The bumpy ride was documented in the couple’s BBC1 documentary Rio And Kate: Becoming A Stepfamily.
It was the sequel to Rio’s 2017 BAFTA-winning film Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum And Dad, which documented a family in mourning.
