Kerry Katona looked drastically different as she stepped out after revealing the results of her recent nose job which left her in tears.
The media personality, 43, underwent surgery earlier this month, in order to fix the damage she caused during years of drug abuse only to be distraught when the operation made her no longer look like her biological father.
Despite the upset Kerry put on a brave face as she was spotted leaving a hair salon in Cheshire on Thursday while debuting a shorter blonde do.
The former Atomic Kitten singer cut a casual figure in jeans and a white bomber jacket which she wore over a peach top.
After four hours in the hairdresser’s chair Kerry jumped into her £200K bright green Lamborghini Urus 4×4 which was parked nearby.
Kerry Katona, 43, looked drastically different when she stepped out in Cheshire on Thursday after undergoing a nose job – the results of which left her in tears
The media personality underwent the surgery earlier this month in order to fix the damage she caused during years of drug abuse
She said she was left distraught when the operation made her no longer look like her biological father (right, pictured March 2024)
Kerry previously revealed she was getting a rib removed to make her new nose and would be used to replace cartilage ‘to make it look a bit smaller’.
She also clarified she was in urgent need of the surgery as she had ‘three holes’ inside her nose due to her past cocaine abuse.
Following the procedure Kerry wrote new magazine column: ‘I burst into tears when I got home and saw it, because it looked swollen and different.
‘I’m also a little sad because I have the same nose as my biological dad, so it makes me think I’ve lost that link.’
Kerry used a detective agency to track down her biological father Ron Armstrong but he passed away from throat cancer before they were due to meet.
He only saw his daughter once in his life, during a meeting with Kerry’s mother Sue when Kerry was just two months old.
The News of the World reported that Ron was a married man and already had three children when he had an affair with then 19-year-old Sue, who was working at a canteen on a building site in Warrington.
The pair began to see each other, but stopped their relationship when Sue fell pregnant, and Sue agreed to bring Kerry up as a single mother.
Despite the upset Kerry flashed a smile as she was spotted leaving a hair salon in Cheshire on Thursday while debuting a shorter blonde do
The former Atomic Kitten singer cut a casual figure in jeans and a white bomber jacket which she wore over a peach top
After four hours in the hairdresser’s chair Kerry jumped into her £200K bright green Lamborghini Urus 4×4 which was parked nearby
She donned a pair of stylish shades as she drove off
Kerry previously revealed she was getting a rib removed to make her new nose and would be used to replace cartilage ‘to make it look a bit smaller’ (pictured with her surgeon)
As a child, Kerry was placed in care and brought up by four sets of foster parents.
Kerry wrote in her column: ‘Let this be a lesson – don’t do drugs! If you’re thinking about rhinoplasty, make sure you’re prepared for the aftermath.’
Kerry detailed how she came to abuse drugs, explaining she had been introduced to them by her mother at the age of 14, after previously checking herself into rehab in 2008 and 2010.
But she has now been proudly sober for 15 years and insisted that she ‘can’t sit with regret’ in order to move on.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain Kerry opened up about her dependency on cocaine and how it caused her nose to collapse.
Showing off the results of the surgery to hosts Ranvir Singh and Richard Madeley, she explained it had been her mum who first gave her drugs as a young teen.
Discussing her addiction, she explained: ‘I think cocaine became my crutch, it was my best friend, it gave the support I needed, when I needed it.
‘I didn’t do it everyday, I was more of a binger – once I started I couldn’t stop. And then I could go months without it. It just became my best friend because everyone was using me really.’
Kerry detailed how she came to abuse drugs, explaining she had been introduced to them by her mother at the age of 14, after previously checking herself into rehab in 2008 and 2010 (pictured with mum Sue)
Discussing her addiction, she explained: ‘I think cocaine became my crutch, it was my best friend, it gave the support I needed, when I needed it’ (pictured with Atomic Kitten bandmates Liz McClarnon (L) and Natasha Hamilton (R) in 2000)
In 2009 during her marriage to now ex husband Mark Croft (pictured together at the time) Kerry was interviewed by police after a video surfaced showing her snorting the class A drug through a £20 note
Detailing how dependent she was at the time, she admitted: ‘I actually OD’d at one point and got back up and took another line of cocaine straight away.’
In 2009 during her marriage to now ex husband Mark Croft, Kerry was interviewed by police after a video surfaced showing her snorting the class A drug through a £20 note.
Kerry recalled: ‘I started drugs when I was 14, before I was famous. My first drug I took was with my mum.
‘I adore my mum and I love my mum, but we’ve had our ups and downs and my mum wasn’t really a mum. She told me it was sherbet and it was speed and I thought that was normal!’
She went on to say that she had moved on from her past however, saying: ‘My mum wasn’t very well. It is what it is, it’s happened I can’t sit with regret and hatred.
‘I have to accept people who there are. My mum is drug free. But for a very long time I lived in a pity party, saying “poor me, the world owes me, it’s everyone’s fault but mine”.
‘But I have to hold my hands up and take responsibility, let it go otherwise it’s like being in a rocking chair going back and forth.’
The star is no stranger to going under the knife and has previously had a tummy tuck in 2021, another operation on her stomach in 2023 (pictured right before surgery in January 2023)
She previously revealed she was convinced to have the surgery after pal Katie Price , who has also had the procedure, ‘gave her loads of advice’
She’s also undergone multiple boob jobs and reductions (pictured right in 2019 before undergoing a breast reduction)
In January she showed off the results after undergoing a blepharoplasty, which removes the excess skin from the eyelids
But she was left ‘crying all day’ in agony following the procedure, because she accidentally ‘scratched her cornea’ while in recovery (pictured before the surgery)
Kerry, who is a mother to Molly, 22, Lilly, 20, Heidi, 16, Max, 15, and DJ, nine, admitted her children were not thrilled about her undergoing her most recent surgery
She continued: ‘Certain people and situations have had a massive impact but I think for you to truly move on from the lessons you’ve learned, you have to own them. You’ve got to let it go.’
She previously revealed she was convinced to have the surgery after pal Katie Price, who has also had the procedure, ‘gave her loads of advice’.
She continued: ‘I’ve wanted to do it for a while because my eyes were starting to feel heavy and I could feel the skin hooding over, which I didn’t like.
‘I’ve not changed my face, I’ve just tweaked it and got rid of the extra skin that was handing down’.
No stranger to going under the knife Kerry previously had a tummy tuck in 2021, another operation on her stomach in 2023, alongside multiple boob jobs and reductions.
In January she showed off the results after undergoing a blepharoplasty, which removes the excess skin from the eyelids.
However, Kerry, who is a mother to Molly, 22, Lilly, 20, Heidi, 16, Max, 15, and DJ, nine, admitted her children were not thrilled about her having her eyes done.
She revealed when her older children FaceTimed her in hospital it ‘freaked’ them out so she hasn’t shown DJ the results because it will ‘scare her’.