Katherine Ryan has no tolerance for mother-shamers.
Violet, 14, Fred, two, and one-year-old Fenna are the comedian’s three children.
She frequently updates her fans on her family life via Instagram and her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything, from making parents sign waivers to allow their children to attend a Halloween party at her house to the disastrous time she accidentally locked her baby inside the house with no way out.
Trolls have previously targeted the singer for the way she raises her children, for things as trivial as having the audacity to have a white sofa in the house with a toddler.
She, on the other hand, is having none of it, confessing in a recent interview that if she took the remarks seriously, she ‘would never leave the home.’
‘I feel like I’ll have a glass of white wine while I’m breastfeeding and that’s fine,’ she told The Sun.
‘I’ll have a white sofa because it’s a beautiful sofa.’
‘I’ll just do whatever I want and just because someone criticises what you’re doing, it doesn’t make them right. It just really rolls off my back.’
Earlier this year, the actress drew backlash after admitting to drinking the occasional glass of wine while breast-feeding her then-newborn daughter Fenna.
The singer had published a photo of herself hugging her kid with a full glass of wine visible on the table in front of her, prompting one fan to remark angrily on the image.
‘Enough with the wine drinking whilst still breastfeeding. I couldn’t care less about statistics about percentages. Alcohol isn’t healthy for adults… nevermind babies’, they said.
Katherine kept her cool and replied: ‘My small children are smart enough to slowly explain to you why it’s fine.’
The NHS website tells new moms that a single drink is ‘unlikely’ to damage a baby, especially if you wait at least two hours before feeding.
Mum-of-three Katherine and her husband Bobby Kootstra have two children, Fred and Fenna.
Growing up in Canada, the couple was childhood sweethearts who reconnected in 2019.
Violet, her eldest daughter from a previous relationship, is her only child.