Kate Actress Celebrates First-Born Son as He Turns 18

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Kate Actress has celebrated her first-born son, Kamau, as he turns 18. Kamau is Kate’s child with her campus love.

In the past, Kate shared her mother’s reaction after discovering the actress was pregnant at the tender age of 19.

“I am extremely emotional today 😔. Happy 18th, my big baby. With everything that is happening around us—mothers losing their innocent sons to police brutality and other injustices a black boy child is subjected to in today’s society—I just want to hold you a little closer today, with so much gratitude to God for getting you to this big age. We did it, my boy. Happy Birthday, my heart 😭🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽,” Kate Actress shared emotionally.

In an interview on the Churchill Show, Kate Actress, a mother of two, recalled how her strict upbringing limited her interactions with the opposite gender.

“My mum is very strict, so we did not mingle with boys as such. I went to an all-girls boarding school.”

She later attended college in Kampala, where she experienced newfound freedom.

“Here I am, we are in class with boys…our dormitories were separated but by the end of the day, we had already mingled. It was like freedom, I can go out… within three months, I was pregnant,” Kate recalled.

“I never understood anything about contraceptives…you learn about that in class but you don’t think you need them. I went for a morning-after pill after three weeks.”

Breaking the news to her parents was difficult, especially since her mother had taken a KSh 400,000 loan to educate her.

“Before the day she came back, I wrote her a very long letter and then disappeared to my friend’s place for a week. She was shocked…she asked me to go back home. I never want to see my parents that disappointed…it was really bad,” Kate shared.

The actress had not known the father of her son for long. She recalls how he was supportive at the beginning but later kept his distance.

To teach her a lesson, Kate’s mother made sure she experienced the toughest aspects of motherhood.

“My mum made sure I knew exactly what being a mum is…I stayed home for two years… I was the house help, mum…doing everything,” she said.