Katherine Ryan kept pregnancy quiet because of work fear

OHMYGOSSIP — Katherine Ryan kept her pregnancy secret because she was terrified of losing work.
The 38-year-old comedian was eight months pregnant when she fronted ITV dating show ‘Ready To Mingle’ but admitted people just thought she was “really fat” as she was concerned producers would hire someone else for the job because of the cost of insuring her if they knew she was expecting.
She admitted: “During my pregnancy I wasn’t telling anyone.
“You can’t get insured on any production if you are pregnant.
“Sometimes, if you are important enough, they go the extra mile. You see Holly Willoughby pregnant and that’s because she’s worth it.
“I tried to keep it secret. People just thought I was really fat for ages. I had to keep it quiet. I still needed to work to feed my family.
“I had been off for the whole pandemic. I walked on to set for ‘Ready To Mingle’ eight months pregnant.
“If you go on the BBC’s insurance site it says it doesn’t insure for any matters of the womb. If your vagina falls off on set, that’s it.
“You don’t want to let down a production if you have some complication of pregnancy.
“Let’s say you are on a sitcom and the whole day gets cancelled — you won’t be insured.
“If you had an eye infection and they couldn’t film you, that day would be insured and everyone would get paid and go home.
“It is so weird, so I just lied.”
Katherine – who has 12-year-old Violet from a previous relationship and 12-month-old Fred with partner Bobby Kootstra – also gained weight after taking steroids in an attempt to minimise her risk of another miscarriage, and she found criticism of her size “fascinating” because people got “really nasty” in a way they never had before.
She told Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe’s podcast, ‘Parenting Hell’: “I have had some experience of pregnancy loss, so I did lots of research into avoiding that. There is a thing where you take steroids and then an intravenous thing every four weeks, and it calms your immune system.
“But what steroids also do is turn you into an absolute sumo wrestler.
“I gained, like, three stone in three months, basically on my face. And I got so big. Because I talk about Botox and filler, the whole of the internet was like, ‘Katherine has really done it this time, she has f***ed up her face’.
“I just had to sit there with this fat Madonna face and be like, ‘Yeah’.
“But it didn’t bother me. I had been called lots of things. Facelift, too much filler or fat, it didn’t bother me though, I just thought it was fascinating, eye-opening.
“When people say things about my appearance it doesn’t bother me.
“But I’d never experienced being called fat.
“It is interesting to me  because I only took a tourism trip into being fat.
“People are really mean about other people being fat. They are really nasty.”

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