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<\/p>\nThe legendary Irish boxer is now based in Connecticut and says she is at a point in her life where she can enjoy being a wife to husband Sean and a stepmum to his five children<\/p>\n
Katie Taylor during a media conference, held at the Hulu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in 2022(Image: Photo By Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Katie Taylor says she feels privileged to be a stepmother to five “great kids”<\/a> who have “great sense of humour”.<\/p>\n The boxing legend married husband Sean McCavanagh last year<\/a> in a private wedding.<\/p>\n Sean, from America, is the father to two sons and three daughters, who range in age from 11 to 23, after his wife passed away in October 2023.<\/p>\n And Katie says it is “absolutely” a blessing to have taken on the role of stepmum.<\/p>\n “He’s the father of five amazing kids and it’s definitely been a blessing for sure,” the Bray<\/a> native said.<\/p>\n “They are five great kids, also with great senses of humour.”<\/p>\n Adding that she is “definitely not laying down the law” at home, Katie explained how becoming a wife and stepmum hasn’t changed her as a person, but has presented some learning curves.<\/p>\n “There has definitely been lots of adjustments and lots of challenges along the way, but I’m not sure it’s changed me a lot,” Katie told Brendan O’Connor on RT\u00c9 Radio 1.<\/p>\n “I’m definitely enjoying it and learning from it.<\/p>\n “It’s a great privilege to be a stepmother and I’m very privileged to be a wife to an amazing man.<\/p>\n “I want to honour my husband, and I want to be the best stepmother I can be as well.”<\/p>\n Katie recalled the moment she knew Sean was the one for her.<\/p>\n “He took me to a Bruno Mars concert in Connecticut,” she explained.<\/p>\n “It wasn’t our first date, but one of the first dates and [Bruno’s song, Marry You] resonates with me because I knew on that date I was going to marry this guy.<\/p>\n “I knew very quickly, and here we are a couple of years later happily married.<\/p>\n “I knew straight away he was a great guy with a great heart and a man of integrity. And he also loves the Lord as well.”<\/p>\n Katie is thankful she met Sean<\/a> at a later point in her boxing career because her love life wasn’t a priority for her when she was competing at the Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Meeting him happened later on in my career, which was perfect,” she said.<\/p>\n “I don’t think I would’ve entertained being in a relationship early on in my career, because I was so focused and driven on my Olympic dream.<\/p>\n “This is an amazing season of my life where I can sit back and enjoy married life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legendary Irish boxer is now based in Connecticut and says she is at a point in her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,1195,850],"class_list":{"0":"post-274155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-olympics","13":"tag-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}