Kate Ferdinand felt "really alone and quite isolated" on Mother's Day last year because her husband Rio Ferdinand and her step-children have lost their mums.
The 30-year-old star is a step-mum to her retired footballer husband Rio's three kids, Tate, 13, Lorenz, 15, and Tia, 10, who he shared with his late wife Rebecca Ellison, who died in 2015 from breast cancer aged 34.
Former England star Rio also lost his mother, Janice, to cancer in 2017 when she passed away aged 58, and Kate admitted that while it was her first ever Mother's Day as a mum last year, she didn't feel it would be right to celebrate the day.
Kate - who has 15-month-old son Cree with Rio - said: "Mother's Day for most people is usually a day that we celebrate the women that shaped us, but unfortunately that is just not the case for everyone.
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