All Step Parents Are Bastards

Sophie's beloved father died when she was seven and her mother remarried not long after to a guy with the last name of Reynolds who she did not like. Most sources seem to agree that she really hated her stepdad, largely because he favored his natural born children over his wives children. For her part, Kate, which is what she was going by at this point, was disappointed in her man from the beginning of their relationship. Decades later, the Kansas City star would write this of her upbringing: "Her life had been that of an ordinary Missouri farm girl"