Former Atomic Kitten star Kerry Katona has opened up about her life before fame and being so poor she had to sell her pet parrot to afford sanitary products.
Kerry reminisced on hard times during her youth as she once spent Christmas with her mum in a house with no decorations or food, as the pair had just been rehomed from a refuge.
She told The Times : "When I was 17 we sold my parrot, Alfie, for £20 so I could buy some Tampax. "I had this gig paying me £50 to dance in a nightclub and I got my period, so I needed sanitary towels, but we didn’t have the money.“That was the last we heard of Alfie!”Kerry has famously had money issues in the past, as she lost her £1.6million house when she declared bankruptcy in 2008 and in 2013.However,
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