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Kate Ritchie says she’s a ‘proud mum’ as daughter Mae, eight, performs at festival – after revelation won’t encourage her to try acting
Kate Ritchie proved she has just a little bit of the stage mom gene when she shared a photo of her daughter performing on Monday.
The actress and radio host, 43, was busy snapping photos while her eight-year-old daughter Mae posed on stage at a local festival.
Mae wore a black leotard and appeared to have taken part in a dance performance.
Kate Ritchie proved she has just a little bit of the stage mom gene when she shared a photo of her daughter performing on Monday. Both pictured
Kate knelt in front of her daughter and her friend and took pictures of the radiant couple on her phone.
“Proud mama does what proud mamas do,” she wrote in her caption alongside the image.
It comes after Kate said she won’t be encouraging Mae to follow in her footsteps, and instead wants her to follow her own path in life.
“Proud mama does what proud mamas do,” she wrote in her caption alongside the image
Kate, who rose to fame playing Sally Fletcher in Home and Away, told Australian women’s magazine she will not push her child “in any direction.”
“Everyone at Home and Away thought I only worked part-time and everyone at school thought I had the best job in the world because I had to leave school early,” she said.
“But put all that together and it’s a bit full!” I just want to make sure I’m not pushing Mae in any direction. I don’t want her to think she belongs to anyone but herself.’
It comes after Kate said she won’t be encouraging Mae to follow in her footsteps, and instead wants her to follow her own path in life
Kate said her daughter, who she shares with ex-husband Stuart Webb, has already expressed interest in starting a YouTube channel, which she says will “never happen.”
While not encouraging her vlogging career, she is eager for Mae to pursue extracurricular activities that she enjoys.
“I encourage her to try lots of different things. She dances on Saturdays, does gymnastics and swims,’ she said.
Kate, who rose to fame playing Sally Fletcher in Home and Away, told The Australian Women’s Weekly that she will not push her child ‘in any direction’
Kate was cast as Sally Fletcher in Home and Away in 1988 when she was eight years old. She left the Channel Seven soap opera in 2008
“Because the one thing I didn’t do growing up—I was kind of busy working on a TV show—was I never played extracurricular sports and I never learned to play a musical instrument.”
Kate was cast as Sally in Home and Away in 1988 when she was eight years old. She left the Channel Seven soap opera in 2008.
She recently admitted that she had a hard time finding her own identity outside of her famous persona, after being on the show for 20 years.
Kate shares Mae with her former husband Stuart Webb.
She recently admitted that she had a hard time finding her own identity outside of her famous persona, after being on the show for 20 years.