she taught herself to read and write during her first pregnancy at the age of 20 after a chaotic childhood and a dyslexia diagnosis.
The former Atomic Kitten member and winner of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here has led much of her life under the showbusiness spotlight but behind the scenes she has struggled with literacy.
Writing for i, she revealed that she was 20-years-old and pregnant with her first child with former husband and Westlife star Brian McFadden before she taught herself how to read and write.
Revealing it took “a good few months”, she said: “While my then husband was traveling around the world I was alone, pregnant and bored out of my mind. “So, I did a Mavis Beacon typing course on our home PC which taught me a lot of the basics…the first book I read was Are You There God?
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