Kerry Katona Biography

Birth Name : Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona

Date of Birth : 6 September 1980, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

Height : 5' 3" (1.60 m)

Occupations : Actress, singer, author, presenter

Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona was born on the 6th September 1980 in Warrington. She shot to fame with the pop group Atomic Kitten and, having experienced some difficult times, has worked hard to turn her life around. Kerry’s mother, Susan Katona is a manic-depressive. Kerry never knew her father as a child, later in life she would hire a private detective to find him, unfortunately he passed away before she could meet him.

Kerry and her mother lived together in increasingly difficult circumstances until Kerry was taken into care by social services. After this she lived in several foster homes until she was 16 when she moved into a flat of her own to be more independent. She left Padgate High School and got a number of jobs, including working in a chip shop, as a BT sales advisor as well glamour modelling and lap dancing.

Katona also began to seek out such varied career opportunities as hosting several television shows, writing a column for OK! magazine, and appearing on the Survivor-inspired reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! However, in 2004 McFadden left Katona in a highly publicized split that allegedly threw Katona into a period of depression and drug abuse, issues she eventually discussed in her 2006 autobiography, -Kerry: Too Much, Too Young. In February of 2007, Katona married taxi driver Mark Croft and six days after the wedding gave birth to their daughter, Heidi Elizabeth Croft.