Katherine Ryan says she’s ready to embrace her ‘hot girl’ era after watching friends become more attractive with age while she laboured through three pregnancies over a five year period.
The Canadian star welcomed daughter Violet, her first child from a former relationship, when she was 25, but a civil partnership with childhood sweetheart Bobby Kootstra in 2019 would lead to the birth of son Fred, followed by daughters, Fenna and Holland, between 2021 and 2025.
And Ryan, 42, says the rigours of back-to-back pregnancies were exacerbated by watching those closest to her enjoy the benefits of cosmetic enhancements and weight loss treatments.
‘I want to be thin, which, like, I always lose the baby weight anyway, but I think I kind of missed out on five years of potentially being hot,’ she told Principle magazine.
‘I watched other people get hotter and have access to GLP-1s. It’s my turn. Everyone else was getting hotter and thinner while I was pregnant six times in five years.
‘I don’t think it’s out of the question to be Erika Jayne hot in your 40s. I’m going for Cher. All the women I admire are much older than I am anyway, so getting older doesn’t bother me at all.’
Katherine Ryan says she’s ready to embrace her ‘hot girl’ era after watching friends become more attractive with age while she laboured through three pregnancies over a five year period
She added: ‘I’ve warned all my enemies that I’m reclaiming my autonomy after sacrificing my sleep, my body, and my career to create a biological legacy for my husband and me to enjoy.
‘But he looks hotter than ever, and I’ve really been through it.’
Ryan is now on a quest to enhance her physique after starting the process by getting a facelift in December, and she already knows what’s next.
‘I’ve had breast implants since the early 2000s, and I think they’re really emblematic of that generation,’ she said. ‘I don’t like them anymore – I want, like, little Kendall Jenner boobs.’
No stranger to minor cosmetic procedures, the comedian prefers to adopt a refreshingly honest stance when asked about her various treatments.
‘I think I have a really healthy relationship with tweakments and cosmetic surgery,’ she said. ‘I never wanted to look different. I think, as a young woman, I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to look like, and at the time it was Britney Spears — Britney Jean Spears.
‘I wanted to be tanned, I wanted to be blonde, I wanted to have breast implants, straight teeth, and just be pretty. And that has never really changed. I don’t want to be tanned anymore – I’ve given up.
‘But yeah, I’ve never had any surgery on my face until this facelift. I’ve had fillers and Botox and things, and breast implants, and that’s it.’
She added: ‘I think there’s this idea that if you do anything to alter your appearance, then you’re participating in a really toxic system and making it harder for other people to age naturally, because you’re chasing youth or whatever it is.
‘But I just feel like I’d love to change the world and have everyone feel totally comfortable in their own skin.’
Ryan says the rigours of back-to-back pregnancies were exacerbated by watching those closest to her enjoy the benefits of cosmetic enhancements and weight loss treatments
‘I want to be thin, which, like, I always lose the baby weight anyway, but I think I kind of missed out on five years of potentially being hot,’ she told Principle magazine
Ryan is now on a quest to enhance her physique after starting the process by getting a facelift in December, and she already knows what’s next
A new era might include a new direction, but whatever happens Ryan rules out the possibility of appearing on two of Britain’s biggest reality TV shows – and with good reason.
She said: ‘I have not been explicitly offered Strictly or The Jungle [I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!], but they have inquired a few times, and I just think it’s too far away for my kids or too much work.’
‘If I embarked on something like Strictly, you just don’t see your family, it’s too intense. So there are things I feel prohibited from doing as a mum, and it’s difficult to contain the feminist rage I have sometimes that it’s not fair.
She added: ‘Even though Bobby is a stay-at-home dad, I still feel limited in what I can do when I have small children, but that’s a choice I made, and I just have to wait.
‘But this is why this is my breakout hot year, because I’ve been spending all this time turning down travel shows and commitments because of the kids.
‘I do have some traditional views about parenting, and I just think if their mum’s not around, I’m sorry, I do think they’ll grow up to be, like, a reformed MP or something weird.’
The full interview is available to read in the latest edition of Principle magazine, out now.
No stranger to minor cosmetic procedures, the comedian prefers to adopt a refreshingly honest stance when asked about her various treatments
The full interview is available to read in the latest edition of Principle magazine, out now
