In a harrowing interview with the Daily Mail over the weekend, Kerry Katona revealed how fame too young almost destroyed her, that she overdosed twice on cocaine and has contemplated suicide.
So you’d have thought that mother-of-five Kerry, who is now a millionaire aged 45 after starting a page on the adult site OnlyFans, would do everything in her power to prevent her own three daughters falling into the same trap she claims she so innocently – and catastrophically – did.
Yet a cursory scroll through her 18-year-old daughter Heidi’s TikTok account – featuring extremely provocative videos in skimpy outfits – suggests otherwise.
Despite mum Kerry insisting ‘fame is actually a f***ed up thing’ that caused her self-harming and depression and her cocaine addiction, here she is on TikTok with her daughter – and Katie Price of all women! – cavorting around for Heidi’s 17,500 followers. In one video, we see Heidi and her mum seductively dancing to the popular TikTok song Sex With Me, which includes the lines ‘sex with me, so amazing’. It’s hardly the stuff you’d expect of a teenager.
It is a mother-and-daughter act Kerry clearly not only supports, but encourages – showing off Heidi, who also has 21,500 Instagram followers and counting, on her own TikTok page too.
Kerry claimed in her Daily Mail interview that she fears for her best friend and former glamour model Katie Price – who currently looks like a walking cadaver after all her disastrous relationships, marriages, toy boys, divorces, boob jobs and bankruptcies. Not because of the terrible decisions her reckless friend has made in life, but because Katie was, like her, a victim of life in the spotlight.
But is fame to blame for these women’s car-crash lives? Are we really supposed to feel sympathy for these two women who, as young and topless Page Three models, went willingly into that world then, for decades, coined it for all it was worth?
You’d have thought, after her own difficult life filled with trauma and drugs, Kerry would be the ultimate ultra-protective mother – and refuse to expose her daughter to the same path that caused her so much pain and so many regrets.
Kerry Katona claimed in her Daily Mail interview that she fears for her best friend and former glamour model Katie Price
Mother-of-five Kerry, 45, has been making money through posting adult content on OnlyFans
In one video, we see Heidi and her mum seductively dancing to the popular TikTok song Sex With Me, which includes the lines ‘sex with me, so amazing’
After appearing on Page Three of the Sun, Kerry joined Atomic Kitten in 1998 with Liz McClarnon, left, and Natasha Hamilton
None of that is reflected in daughter Heidi’s social media. In fact, she seems to revel in mum’s OnlyFans money – in one video posing beside Kerry’s lime-green Lamborghini with the caption: ‘Mummy’s money.’
In another video, she jokes about Kerry being her ‘wallet’, adding that her mum ‘has never said no’ and that the money ‘never runs out’.
Is it really healthy for a teenager to boast about sponging off the same wealth and fame that her mother claims has caused her such misery?
It all makes me wonder how emotionally unaware this mother-of-five – to three different husbands – can be. Does she not realise she is setting a terrible example by bragging, as she did in her interview, that her OnlyFans page now means she can send her five kids to private school?
I can only imagine the humiliation her children might feel at being dropped off at their posh private school, with all their friends knowing what their mum does for ‘work’.
Kerry said in the recent BBC documentary Girlbands Forever that, due to the fame that came with her Page Three topless career and her role in girlband Atomic Kitten, she was on antidepressants from the age of 19 and took drugs to cope with the pressure.
She said plaintively that before the documentary came out she wanted to tell her children the truth of her past drug abuse and had to sit them down to explain, revealing her utter, tearful shame when one of her kids asked: ‘Mummy what is a cokehead?’
I just hope she didn’t go into gruesome details – like the nose operation that used a part of one of her ribs to reconstruct her nasal passage after it dissolved due to her cocaine habit.
Forgive me for saying so, but I don’t really want to hear about how this once-privileged teenage popstar – who so abused her talents and her nostrils – has taken to OnlyFans to remake her fortune.
It certainly makes Kerry’s claims that even at the pinnacle of her Atomic Girl fame, she didn’t want stardom, ‘fame or the riches’ and just ‘wanted to be a mum and a wife’ hard to believe. Especially when she is encouraging her own 18-year-old daughter to become a mini-Kerry.
If this faded star was determined to be a good mother, as she insists, she’d be discouraging her daughter from following in her footsteps.
