Katherine Ryan is coming under fire after admitting she has a favorite out of her four children.
The 43-year-old comedian was on the podcast Begin Again with Davina McCall for an episode that was published in October 2025. In it, she revealed her eldest daughter, Violet, is her “favorite.”
“I can say it. Violet’s my favorite. She’s the firstborn daughter,” Katherine said. “And I think people don’t like that. That’s a very provocative thing to say as well.”
Despite the podcast episode airing in October, it was reshared on the a Facebook page for the podcast and has drawn significant attention, garnering over 1,000 comments (via People).
Katherine continued in the episode, saying, “And I don’t worry about it hurting my other children’s feelings because I go, ‘Those are nepo babies.’ Like, guess what? She’s my favorite. You get to go to private school. She’s my favorite. You get to grow up with a dad. Life’s not fair. She’s my favorite.”
One commenter wrote, “No, absolutely not, you can not [sic] pick a favorite child. You love them equally for their own individual purposes.”
“Even as a mum if I had these feelings don’t think I’d tell them!” added another.
Katherine shares three kids with her husband Bobby Kootstra. But her daughter Violet, 17, is from a previous relationship.
Knowing that, some of the commenters came to her defense.
“She’s more protective over the eldest because she doesn’t have a dad in her life and they went on the journey together whereas the younger kids got the better version of her that had already achieved success. I think that’s what she’s trying to say,” one person said.
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