Former Atomic Kitten star Kerry Katona wishes she’d had role models to look up to when she was younger.
Kerry Katona sees herself as a “great example” of turning your life around.
The 45-year-old star – who has been open about her issues with addiction over the years – thinks she would have benefited from having her own role models to look up to when she was a child.
She wrote in her column for new! magazine: “I wish to God there had been someone around when I was a kid who had platforms like we do, so people could help us feel less alone. That’s why I’m so open.
“I’m a great example of how you can turn your life around and you can get through the worst times.”
The former Atomic Kitten singer insisted some things simply get better with time, even if the pain doesn’t always go away.
She added: “The hurt will always be there, but time is a healer.”
Kerry has also hit out at the double stands for men and women in society, particularly when it comes to their children.
The star has daughters Molly, 24, and Lilly-Sue, 22, with first husband Brian McFadden, and Heidi, 18, and Max, 17, with second husband Mark Croft.
She also has 11-year-old daughter DJ, whose father is Kerry’s late third husband, George Kay.
She said: “If I was to go on holiday without my kids I’d get scrutinised, yet I’m bringing them up, putting them to bed, through private education and doing school runs.
“A man can go on holiday, sleep with a million girls and it’s supported. Women are more entitled to go on holiday and have a break.
“I’ve many so many mistakes but I own them, yet no one seems to let me move on from them because I’m a woman and a mother.”
Kerry is smitten with her 33-year-old boyfriend Paolo Margaglione – who she met on E4’s Celebs Go Dating earlier this year – and revealed she would love to add to her brood of five children from three marriages.
In her OK! Magazine column, Kerry shared: “’I’m definitely open to having more kids – and I know my children would be happy for me, if that was the case.”
Kerry Katona thinks she is a ‘great example’ of turning your life around
