Kerry Katona

Kerry always wanted her children to be brought up in a perfect family unit, so much so that she once contemplated staying with a violent, abusive husband.

The couple had been childhood sweethearts during their teenage years before going their separate ways in adulthood. But I did the right thing, and everyone tells me if I had stayed I would have ended up dead," said Kerry. The mum said she felt so judged by people that she was 'embarrassed' to get married a fourth time when her fiancé Ryan Mahoney, 33, proposed. "Our relationship was just about coke," she later told Fabulous magazine. I was enough for them and always have been." I was distraught and I thought I just needed to get married again quickly so they would have a man in their life, because I never did," she said.