LORENZ Ferdinand gave a shout out to his stepmother Kate Ferdinand on Mother's Day.
The son of footballing legend Rio Ferdinand and his late, first wife Rebecca Ellison made sure to pay tribute to his step-mum on Sunday.
The budding footballer, 18, took to his Instagram stories to share two black and white photos, including one of him as younger child standing next to a smiling Rebecca who died from cancer in 2015.
Then in the following story he shared another photo of himself standing with Kate and their arms around each other.
"Happy Mother's Day," Lorenz captioned both photos.
Lorenz is a goalkeeper, currently playing on work experience for seventh-tier side Havant and Waterlooville.
Rio shared three children with Rebecca, including Lorenz's younger siblings, Tate, 16, and Tia, 13.
The football pundit married Towie star, Kate in 2019 and they are parents to son, Cree, four, and daughter Shae, 20 months.
Kate reshared Lorenz's post and also took to Instagram Stories to show off her Mother's Day spoils which include a pink flower and a card on whose envelope read, "to a special step-mum."
She captioned the photo: "It's all in the details. Who has opened their card today? Just a little note from me."
Kate had previously said she struggled to celebrate Mother's Day knowing her stepchildren had lost their mother.
"Mother's Day for most people is usually a day that we celebrate the women that shaped us," Kate said on her Blended Podcast in 2022.
"But unfortunately that is just not the case for everyone. For me personally Mother's Day is a day that I struggle with.
"I'm fortunate to have three amazing stepchildren and my biological son Cree, but sadly my stepchildren lost their mum at a young age and also my husband has lost his mum.
"I really really struggled with Mother's Day even before I was a biological parent, somehow I thought it would be easier when I had Cree but actually last year was probably the toughest Mother's Day to date."
She continued: "It's a strange feeling the world is celebrating this day and there is a real big loss in my house but also it was my first Mother's Day - a day in another life that I would really look forward to, but here I am surrounded by my family.
"How can I have the audacity to celebrate myself when all my family have had such a deep loss.
"I felt really alone and quite isolated, I didn't know anyone in a similar situation or going through the same sort of thing as me."
