“Motherhood has been so fantastic lately because my son is now three-and-a-half,” she said. “So things get a little easier when they can take themselves to the potty and grab their own snack, and also more personality emerges. So it’s super fun.”
Kate took to Instagram on Oct. 31, where she showed off just how much fun she was having with Sullivan over Halloween. In the photo, posted to her account, Kate can be seen dressed as a butterfly, trick-or-treating with her son, who was dressed as a caterpillar. “A caterpillar cannot yet appreciate the butterfly’s perspective,” she wrote in the caption of the post.
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“It really surprised me that the clichés are true,” Kate told Bravo Insider about motherhood. “That it’s a love that you will never know unless you have a child. It’s a love so strong, but you know what? It has to be that strong because it’s also very hard. So thank God that our bodies produce some chemical that make us love our children so much that we don’t mind losing sleep, time, and everything. Yeah, it feels worth it.”
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Kate continued, opening up about how she successfully potty trained her son earlier this year. “I had to get him potty trained really quickly so he could get to the next preschool grade. So I used bribery, and it worked in like three days. Yeah, and I’m proud to report, as a bragging parent, that he’s three and a half and can fully read,” she said.
Kate has even tried to bribe Sullivan with a car. She took to Instagram on Jan. 11, where she posted several photos of Sullivan riding in the driver’s side of a black Jeep. “I told him our new car could be his when he turns 16 if he promises to pee pee in his potty,” she wrote in the caption of the post.
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But Kate isn’t raising Sullivan alone. She told Bravo Insider that she has a great support system, including her very close friend and fellow mom of one, The Valley: Persian Style‘s Mercedeh Javid, to rely on when it comes to support. “I recently moved back to my hometown in Florida, and so I’ve got my mom there, my friends from childhood there,” she said. “And you know, MJ from Shahs [of Sunset] is one of my good friends after doing The Traitors together, and I think she’s an incredible mother and she gives me great mom advice.”
