After having a tumultuous relationship over the years, Kerry Katona has reunited with her ex-husband Brian McFadden to celebrate their daughter’s birthday
Just weeks after admitting she wished she had a better relationship with her ex, Kerry Katona has reunited with her former husband Brian McFadden to celebrate their eldest daughter Molly’s 24 th birthday.
The pair were married from 2002 to 2006 and are share daughters Molly and Lilly-Sue, 22, but after divorcing the two haven’t had much of a relationship after parting ways.
However, it looks like there’s no longer any bad blood between them as Kerry, 44, took to Instagram on Sunday to share a heartfelt message for her baby girl, alongside a series of pictures of her.
As well as throwback photos of Molly when she was growing up, one of the noticeable pictures was of Molly standing in between her mum and dad as they posed for a sweet snap for her birthday celebrations.
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Molly can be seen wearing a black and white top with a bright red lip, while her mum and dad beam from ear to ear beside her. Kerry captioned the post: “How on earth is my first born 24 today!!!! Happy Birthday my beautiful baby girl @123_mollymc.
“I honestly cannot express how proud I am of the woman you’ve turned out to be… I love you all the world my baby girl and I miss you like crazy,” the Celebs Go Dating star concluded.
The former couple haven’t had the best of relationships over the years, with Kerry hitting out at her ex on a number of occasions. She claimed in a podcast back in 2023: “ He was a s**t dad. I’m the one who provides for them..”
However, Brian has barely mentioned his ex-wife and previously went to great lengths not to mention her in the BBC documentary, Boybands Forever, which released last year.
In a very awkward exchange, the interviewer asked him on camera: “Marrying Kerry, you’re sort of…” as Brian quickly interjected: “I don’t want to talk about her, no. Definitely no.”
In June this year, Kerry admitted she wished the pair could have a better relationship and lamented the end of their friendship.
She wrote in her column for new! magazine: “I wish Brian and I could have stayed friends. Molly went to watch him at a festival last week and I would have loved to have gone with her. It would be great to have a better relationship.”
Kerry has shared more details about their relationship while appearing on Paul C Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast. She revealed: “He doesn’t like me talking about him, but Brian’s a part of my story, only a small part.
“There’s been so much more than Brian. I’m eternally grateful… I’ll never forget walking down that aisle and thinking, this is crazy. Like four years ago, I was in a semi-independent home, and I’ve got Louis Walsh and Dane Bowers singing and London Gospel Choir. I’ve got Westlife at the altar…”
“It wasn’t love at first sight for me. It, you know, I think he was my first husband, the first time I had a child, my first proper love. It was so romantic, it was a fairytale. Brian was my very first love, I think. Proper love, yeah. Proper grown-up love,” Kerry shared.
“I say grown-up—we were 18 when we met. It was so overwhelming, and we were still only babies. Paul, I mean, it was… plus all this attention. It was madness.”
Gushing over her first love with Brain, Kerry went on: “Brian really made me laugh. He was… he’s so quick-witted and so funny, like he was. His humor is what won me over. He really loved me. We were so in love. I think he was the first proper person who genuinely cared about my well-being.”
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