Kate Ferdinand is unhappy that her step-son Lorenz has moved out of their family house to pursue his father’s dream of becoming a footballer.
The 16-year-old is said to have already packed his belongings and moved away from his parents, Rio Ferdinand and Kate, after signing a football deal with Brighton & Hove under-18s.
The decision must make Rio proud, as he played competitive football for over 20 years before becoming a football pundit.
Tata, 14, and Tia, 11, are his children from his marriage to Rebecca Ellison, who died of breast cancer in 2015.
Kate, formerly Kate Wright, 31, and Rio have a two-year-old boy named Cree and are expecting their second kid later this year.
The pair married in 2019 and Kate has often candidly chatted about the realities of becoming a step-mother to three children on her popular podcast, Blended.
In a recent episode, in which she was accompanied by her ex-footballing Husband, the Only Way Is Essex star opened up about Lorenz leaving the home.
‘I don’t even know if anyone knows this,’ she began.
‘[Lorenz] doesn’t live at home at the moment. He’s in digs with another family.’
Former Manchester United player Rio, added: ‘Because of what he’s doing. He’s playing football. We ain’t just thrown him out.’
Rio described how Kate was ‘crying’ when the teen moved out of their Kent home, before she explained: ‘I was devastated when he moved out. I miss him so much. We still see him twice a week but I miss him so much and that’s taken a lot of getting used to.’
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The happy couple went on to say that the family welcoming Lorenz had praised him on his manners.
Kate previously admitted to’sobbing’ after Rio and his children failed to purchase her a Mother’s Day present during their first year together.
Also chatting on her podcast, the star explained: ‘I wasn’t a biological mum. I think it was our first Mother’s Day, maybe I’d been living here (their home in Bromley, South London) about six months, something like that.
‘And although I wasn’t a biological mum, I kind of felt like I’d taken on the mum role. For me, going from living at home on my own to taking the kids to school, cooking them dinner, I felt like a mum.’
‘I really thought I might get a card from you, and I didn’t get a card from you,’ she said directly to Rio.
She continued: ‘I felt bad to express that in front of you because you guys had lost your mum, and the kids have lost their mum. So I just went in my room and I just sobbed my heart out, seriously.
‘And then I felt selfish for wanting a card – how dare I want a card? So anyone that’s kind of new in this situation might feel like that because it’s a weird one.’