Kate Ferdinand looks unrecognisable in throwback picture as she celebrates close friend’s 30th
KATE Ferdinand has filled her Instagram feed with sweet tributes to her close pal as she turns 30 – including a series of unrecognisable throwbacks.
The former TOWIE star, 29, couldn’t help celebrating friend Nadia’s milestone day with the photo trips down memory lane, spanning the past two decades.
Alongside the final image she wrote: “We used to love this picture.
“Love you so very much my darling.”
It showed mum of one Kate posing in a black crop top which flashed her abs, paired with a pair of black trousers.
She wore her blonde locks in waves over her shoulders and a silver bangle.
The former reality TV star, who has given up fame to focus on family life with Rio Ferdinand, her new baby, and step kids looked fresh-faced with bronzed make-up and gloss.
The snap had been taken long before Kate started her current life chapter as a mum.
She also added a fun photo montage to her Stories showing herself and Nadia out partying at nightclubs, at what looked to be a festival and wearing fun cowboy hats.
Kate then posted the caption: “19 years of memories and many more to come.”
The first image was dedicated to her mate and showed her gently holding her baby bump, to which Kate gushed: “Happy 30th birthday to our beautiful mummy to be.”
Kate will soon be able to share baby play dates with her mate following the birth of her son Cree late last year.
The mum has candidly – and refreshingly – spoken exclusively to The Sun about how she “didn’t recognise” her post-partum body.
Kate, who is married to ex-England footie star Rio, has candidly revealed how “overwhelmed” she was adjusting to her figure following the birth of their son Cree shortly before Christmas.
She won huge praise from her fans when just 11 days after Cree’s birth she shared a warts-and-all picture with the tot on Instagram.
Kate says: “There are so many things about motherhood that no one tells you. I’d had the baby and I was in this whirlwind of emotion.
“My body was not the body I recognised. I felt really overwhelmed.
“I was feeling really abnormal and I started panicking. ‘Am I meant to be feeling like this?’
“I was so happy but very emotional. And I was looking through social media and thinking, ‘Is this normal? Because no one ever says this’.
“I thought, ‘If I put up a photo of me with my hair and make up done perfect, that is not real and it is not how I feel’.
“I felt like I had to share it. And then it was crazy the amount of people who told me they felt the same. I think that’s why it is right to not share the perfect pictures all the time.
“When you are going through post-pregnancy, you can’t see out of the bubble. You think, ‘I am never going to go back to normal or feel the same again’.
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And as a parent to Rio’s three children from his marriage to his late wife Rebecca Ellison, Kate had to juggle the newborn with still being a doting mum to the older children.
She says: “There is a lot of pressure to bounce back but I don’t feel it is realistic with a newborn baby and three other children.”
Kate quit TOWIE shortly after dating Rio in 2016, following her split from co-star Dan Edgar.
At the time, Kate explained: “I fell in love with Rio, then I met the kids and fell in love with them. I realised, ‘Wow, my life is going to change.’ I couldn’t be part of his life and not part of theirs.”