Rio Ferdinand and Kate Ferdinand reveal the gender of their second child

Rio Ferdinand and Kate Ferdinand are having a girl.

The former TOWIE star, 31, and the ex-footballer, 44, revealed in January that they were expecting their second child together, a daughter.

Kate and footballer Rio wed in 2019. They already have a boy together named Cree, two, and she is Rio’s stepmother to his three kids, Lorenz, 16, Tate, 14, and Tia, 11.

The family recently held a gender reveal party, but Rio later disclosed that everything went wrong when Kate choked on a cupcake.

‘It’s a girl guys, we are so excited we’re having a girl,’ the reality star screamed, adding that both parents and Lorenz had accurately predicted the gender before discovering

‘We both guessed the same. Lorenz guessed that.’

Rio, announcing the news alongside Kate on her Blended podcast, said: ‘I knew it was a girl but I actually wanted a girl. I wanted boys at the beginning. I wanted Cree to be a boy and I’m done with five.