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When they burst onto the scene in 1998, I loved Atomic Kitten. A bunch of girls just a few years younger than me, from my home town, larger than life.
The future looked so, so bright. "Kitten" were hugely successful, Katona married the golden boy of pop Brian McFadden of Westlife but it all went so terribly wrong. Now a mother of five children, with her life back on track Katona opens the lid on her life so far, the highs and the lows. It's a gut-wrenching, harrowing tale, no holds barred.
From the Prologue where Katona shares a memory of hiding in a wardrobe with her baby girl from an abusive ex, it's a story of true strength and survival. Katona bravely articulates her hellish story of abuse and shows what a survivor she is. She has overcome it all with her children by her side. Kerry bravely reveals her hell at the hands of a man who would unleash physical and emotional torture on her, in an all too familiar situation so many women face every day. It's an emotional rollercoaster, a riveting read, a gritty tale where Katona documents the cycle of helplessness and despair that only ended when her husband died in 2019, having eaten a sock filled with cocaine.
With her life and career back on track, in the words of Atomic Kitten's most famous song Katona is finally starting to feel Whole Again. And you can't help but applaud her bravery and strength.
Deborah Maclaren
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Kerry Katona: Whole Again Love, Life and Me Synopsis
As one of the most recognisable faces in showbiz today, Kerry Katona has seen more than her fair share of ups and downs played out in public.
Once labelled ‘the nation’s sweetheart,’ the Atomic Kitten singer rose from foster care to international stardom, but soon found herself judged and ridiculed as mental health problems and bad decisions derailed her life.
From a picture perfect yet fractured marriage to one of the biggest pop stars in the world, to her fall from grace in a haze of drink and drugs while wed to her taxi driving second husband, Kerry has been loved and derided in equal measure. But since her bestselling autobiography was released in 2012, which documented her troubled childhood and subsequent life in the limelight, Kerry has faced her most devastating challenges yet.
In this riveting read, Kerry documents how, in the decade since, she’s welcomed her fifth child, suffered a debilitating injury, a cancer scare, several tragic losses and a career slump she thought she’d never recover from. Yet the most significant event in that time was her marriage to third husband, George Kay.
Stuck in an abusive relationship she felt powerless to leave, Kerry opens up about her struggles living with a violent man, whose mental health problems and drug use would see her and her family trapped in a cycle of helplessness and despair that only ended when George died in 2019, having eaten a sock filled with cocaine while staying in a local Travel Inn. Kerry bravely reveals her hell at the hands of a man who would unleash physical and emotional torture on her, in an all too familiar situation so many women face every day.
But this is also a story of hope, strength and survival. Of how Kerry, with the support of her now -fiancé Ryan and her children, built herself up from the lowest point imaginable, with sheer grit and determination, to get her life and career back on track in the wake of such devastation. It’s a story of survival and peace and how, after years of desperately trying to find her way, she has finally started to feel – in the words of her most famous song –Whole Again.
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About Kerry Katona
Kerry was born in Warrington in 1980. She came into the limelight when she joined the hugely successful band Atomic Kitten, but left in 2001 when her first daughter was born. As well as winning I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! she has been a regular presenter on Loose Women, starred in the successful Irish TV series Show Band and has been the subject of a prime time ITV documentary, My Fair Kerry.
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