Update: Kerry Katona expecting fourth child — a son

Update: The baby will be named Maxwell Mark. He is due in late May.

Update December 30th: Kerry has revealed that she is expecting her first son.

Update September 26th: Her publicist has released a new statement:

After further examination it has been revealed that Kerry Katona is still pregnant. Kerry went back into hospital for a medical procedure last night (Tuesday). However, a blood test revealed surprising results – her pregnancy hormones had gone up, not down. Kerry was taken for a second scan and was shown her baby’s 3mm heart beat.

It has transpired that Kerry is only five weeks pregnant, not seven-eight weeks, which is why the scan was not clear and coupled with bleeding led to her being diagnosed with having had a miscarriage. She is still at risk of complications – however she and Mark are ecstatic that she is still pregnant with their baby.

Click below for the original posts on the pregnancy.

Update 8 am: We are sad to report that Kerry has suffered a miscarriage. Her publicist released the following statement,

Kerry was only a few weeks pregnant. She’s sad but she’s young and healthy and they had a baby not so long ago. She’sas good as she can be in the circumstances. She’s resilient, as always.They’re upset but they’ll bounce back. She’s handling it as best shecan.

Originally posted September 24: Former Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona is pregnant with her fourth child,and has apparently experienced complications recently. Kerry, 27, wasrushed to a London hospital last week with a mystery illness, and latertold she was six weeks pregnant.

According to a Sun source, the Brit singer is worried she might lose the child.

She’shad problems with her other pregnancies, and this time she has beenlosing a lot of blood. The doctors weren’t sure exactly what theproblem was at first, but now they know and it’s not looking good atall.

Kerry’s third child, Heidi Elizabeth, 7 months, came four weeks early. Kerry has two other daughters, Molly Marie, 6, and Lilly-Sue, 4, from her first marriage to Brian McFadden, formerly of Irish boy band Westlife.

Source: The Sun

Thanks to CBB readers Sophie, Chloe, Jenni, Kelly, and Kitty.

Comments

there is a whole feature on her announcing this pregnancy in the new edition of OK! magazine.

- meg on September 25th, 2007

I’m not a fan of her and don’t agree with her mothering skills but I would never wish this on anyone just hope that she and the new baby are ok

- Katie on September 25th, 2007

I’m really sorry to hear about her complications, but I don’t think there’s enough awareness among women regarding the need to wait a while between pregnancies so your body can recover.
The March of Dimes says, “Risk factor: Getting pregnant too soon after having a baby
What you can do: Before getting pregnant again, wait at least six months between delivery and the start of the next pregnancy. This gives your body time to recover. See your provider before you get pregnant again.”
It takes a while for your uterus to shrink and go back into place and for your hormones to level out.

- Stef on September 25th, 2007

Wow, I never knew she was pregnant again. Her youngest child isn’t all that old Oh well. It’s her choice. I sincerely hope everything is okay now. It would be heartbreaking if something happened to this baby, considering how difficult her other pregancies have been.

- Denise on September 25th, 2007

While I don’t agree with her parenting skills, I do hope she and the baby are OK and she gets her life sorted out…!

- lola on September 25th, 2007

While I sincerely hope this baby pulls through, I do not think Kerry is anywhere near ready for a fourth child. Between all the smoking and drinking she’s carried on throughout all three pregnancies, Heidi’s early delivery and low birth weight, the robbery this past summer, and the custody battle over Molly and Lilly-Sue, the last thing she needs right now is another baby imo. She needs to take far better care of herself and mature before she adds another little one to the mix.

- Lauren on September 25th, 2007

Oh, and I just read that Kerry admitted to having a cocaine relapse while pregnant with Heidi. She claims to have not used since, but it isn’t reaching to suggest that this baby’s problems are because she abuses her body so badly. Hopefully this will be the wake up call she needs to kick her bad habits once and for all.

- Lauren on September 25th, 2007

Here you say that she was born 6 weeks earlier but in the post when she was born, you said 4 weeks. I think there’s a mistake somewhere!

- Stéph on September 25th, 2007

You can wait 8 years between babies and still have complications, I do not believe that having children close together causes more complications. My sister was 8 weeks old when my mother became pregnant again, and there were no complications during her pregnancy with me.
I wish Kerry great health, unfortunately I think she has a lot of problems and a baby won’t solve any of them.

- Colleen on September 25th, 2007

Lauren I just read that too. Very sad. I think there is a trend in UK reality TV celebs to have a pregnancy whenever they hit problems…it’s very sad. Reminds me of Danielle’s post about about right age to have a family. I wonder if Kerry had waited 10 year until she was in her 30′s if she would have had less problems with drink, drugs, relationships, while trying to somehow parent her children??

- LOLA on September 25th, 2007

Colleen–I know. My roommate and her brother are a year apart (so if I’m doing my math right, 10 weeks between pregnancies)? Soon-after pregnancies do happen, are often unplanned, and can go without a hitch, but my point is that having a baby so quickly after the first does increase complications, especially in those who have had difficult pregnancies before or are who under a lot of stress, etc. It’s just something that never gets addressed is my point.

- Stef on September 25th, 2007

There are now several reports and a statement by her publicist that she miscarried.

PS. Eldest daughter Molly is 6.

- Sherri on September 25th, 2007

Yes, having babies too close together can increase complications. One example of healthy pregnancy or even several examples doesn’t discount that.

I hope that she and her baby will be alright.

- terri on September 25th, 2007

British newspaper The Sun is reporting this morning that Kerry has sadly lost her baby and had a miscarriage

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007440663,00.html

- Chloe on September 26th, 2007

Kerry’s PR has announced she has miscarried – very very sad. I don’t know much about the wisdom of falling pregnant soon after the birth of one child, but I don’t think people were critisising Stella McCartney for falling pregnant so soon after the birth of her daughter. I think its really double standards to critisise Kerry but not Stella.

- Elaine on September 26th, 2007

Kerry had a miscarriage yesterday unfortunately. Sad news. She always has difficult pregnancies. I feel sorry for her.

- Angela on September 26th, 2007

http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/26092007/364/katona-suffers-miscarriage.html&e=l_news_dm

she has lost the baby

- Jenni on September 26th, 2007

I am sorry to hear that. I hope for her other children’s sake this is the catalyst for her getting clean – off the drugs and booze for good and becoming mentally healthy. I hope the press gives them time to grieve

- lola on September 26th, 2007

I think whatever age you are 20/30/40 if you are doing things to harm your body during pregnancy and your baby you should not be given a child. Having a child is all about learning to give of yourself for your child, if you cant even do that during the pregnancy than who is to say that for the life of the child you will put them first and decide what is best for them. Obviously Kerry has alot of issues she needs to deal with and make better not only for another baby but for her children already, what kind of example are they seeing in her? At least Brian seems to have his head on right.

- Gina on September 26th, 2007

Why would she announce pregnancy at only 6 weeks? Let’s face it, anything can happen up untill that point. Doesn’t she already have three children to look after and a very big drug problem to deal with first? I don’t know people who already have so many kids and don’t have a handle on their life feel they need continue having as many children as humanly possible.

As for Brian – yeah his head is screwed on now, since he has no choice. He’s the one who ditched Kerry and pushed her over the edge in the first place. If he ever got custody of their two girls, I’d like to see how Deltra Goodrem would like that!

- Megan on September 26th, 2007

I’m sorry to hear about her miscarriage, although it’s strange we even learned of it, given she obviously wasn’t very far along.

By all of your descriptions, (custody cases, substance abuse, high risk pregnancies, etc.) it sounds like Kerry Katona was the inspiration for Britney Spears! (Inspiration only because Kerry’s oldest daughters are older than Britney’s sons, and because apparently her problems came to light before Britney’s.)

Let’s hope that Kerry can get the help she needs, before she becomes any more of a detriment to her family as well!

- Autumn on September 26th, 2007

I hadn’t heard of Kerry before so I don’t really have an opinion on whether or not she should be having more kids but as for why she announced the pregnancy so early… maybe she isn’t uncomfortable or embarrassed about sharing info about a miscarriage, so she decided what was the big deal about telling about her pregnancy even if she did miscarry. Some people are just more open.

Personally I waited until 12 weeks to even tell my family and 20 weeks for most other people, because I would find miscarriage very uncomfortable to talk about with them.

- Sami on September 26th, 2007

Brian pushed her over the edge? Please. They split years ago, if she still hasn’t gotten over it, depsite being married to another guy, then that’s her problem. God, I hope he gets custody soon.

- ix on September 26th, 2007

Elaine–I wasn’t criticizing Kerry in particular because of her past–except when it comes to the fact that she had complications before and her previous birth was premature.

Society is very quick to guilt the hell out of mothers and accuse their lifestyle of being what causes harm to their child. They did the same thing to Jordan, even though such a comment is beyond ridiculous because his condition is genetic (determined at conception).

And now in the case of Kerry, she’s had drug or behavior problems before, but more than likely her miscarriage is due to her being prone to complications + getting pregnant so soon. But no one is mentioning that. They are pulling up her rumored drugs habits and saying those are the cause. It’s just more of the societal BS that keeps getting thrown at mothers.

- Stef on September 26th, 2007

Aparently acording to Perez Hilton the publisist has just said that they have just found out that she is still pregnant after all she did not lose the baby I hope and pray either way that the family stay together and support her family

- mrsgrugsplat on September 26th, 2007

She HAS NOT lost the baby- she’s still pregnant. As well as this, she’s apparentley only 5 weeks pregnant.

- ix on September 26th, 2007

I have no idea who she is, but my prayers are with her. My kids are 12 months apart, so obviously one was conceived right after the other was born. I thank God I did not have the complications that other poster are stating can come from this.

- daphneesmith on September 26th, 2007

On the Kerry Katona online fourm – someone claiming to be Mark Croft (The rest of the fourm members seem to believe it’s him) has posted this

‘what happened is we did a test, test came back positive. wife was bleeding so we went to the doctors. when we had the scan it did not show anything in the sack. did blood tests hormone levels going up doctor presumed in was not going to be a on going pregnancy hormone levels were showing 8 weeks hense max clifford thought we was losing the baby. went back on the 24th then we had a further scan and there was a heartbeat so when they measured the size of the baby 3 mm the wife is only 5 weeks not 8 weeks this is why they could not see anything in the sack hope confusion is cleared up now thanks’

If the miscarriage rumours are true I do feel for Kerry and hope this gives her reason to get herself on the straight and narrow.

- Katrina Lou on September 26th, 2007

If you go over to Perez, he says that her publicist just released a new statement saying that Kerry is still pregnant but not as far along as they thought and that coupled with the bleeding is what prompted them to think she had a miscarriage…who knows whats true anymore! Hopefully this is right though and she didn’t suffer a miscarraige..

- Melanie on September 26th, 2007

Katona’s publicist, Max Clifford, just released the following statement:

“After further examination it has been revealed that Kerry Katona is still pregnant. Kerry went back into hospital for a medical procedure last night (Tuesday). However, a blood test revealed surprising results – her pregnancy hormones had gone up, not down. Kerry was taken for a second scan and was shown her baby’s 3mm heart beat. It has transpired that Kerry is only five weeks pregnant, not seven-eight weeks, which is why the scan was not clear and coupled with bleeding led to her being diagnosed with having had a miscarriage. She is still at risk of complications – however she and Mark are ecstatic that she is still pregnant with their baby.”

- Jenni on September 26th, 2007

Hi Elaine,

I understand your point but i think people are responding like this due to the fact that it seems Stella is leading a more stable life. Kerry has had a past where she had issues with alcohol and drugs. She is also much more open about her private life which also a reason why more people give their opinions about her.
I feel for her and no woman should ever go through a miscarriage, but after reading of what happened to her in the past year alone and her announcing her pregnancy in such an early stage was perhaps not the smartest thing to do. I don’t know where you are from. If you’re not from the UK, Kerry is very, very open about personal issues in OK magazine every week. Whether it’s about another argument with her ex husband, the robbery in her house, saying her mom is as good as dead to her etc, she always looks for publicity, her desire for a boy, everything. So as much as i wish her all the best in her recovery, i can’t really blame people for responding so differently to her pregnancy then to Stella’s.

- Kim on September 26th, 2007

Perez is now saying that Kerry’s publicist has confirmed that she is still pregnant???

- Tara Zinna on September 26th, 2007

I’m sure you’ve gotten tons of posts about this since the last update, but I just read in a couple of places that she did NOT miscarry and she is still pregnant. What? Very confusing. I guess another press release was issued. Very strange situation indeed.

- scm on September 26th, 2007

I feel for Kerry. Nobody deserves to miscarry
As for people’s comments, i would personally never judge somebody when the situation is so delicate.
Clearly she has issues but that’s her business. I have never been in her shoes and therefore i have no idea how hard it must be to overcome her problems. I hope she is able to move on and straighten out her life.

- Tara on September 26th, 2007

I’m glad she did not suffer a miscarriage. I hope the rest of her pregnancy is smooth and complication-free.

- Leslie on September 26th, 2007

If this is true she has just been given a gift that most woman who think they miscarried wants so badly to hear.I would have loved to have heard the words”we were wrong your still pregnant” when I miscarried. Hopefully this will be her wake up call if those stories about her are true. I wish her and her family good luck and good health.

- bell on September 26th, 2007

If this hasn’t been enough of a roller coaster of emotion the past few days, I don’t know what has!

- Harley on September 26th, 2007

I hate to say this, but it sounds like someone is looking for attention. Announce the pregnancy, announce a miscarriage, oh wait- I’m still pregnant. I think Kerry needs to get a new public relations person immediately and learn to keep MUM about her personal life.

- Hate to say it on September 26th, 2007

This same thing happened with me when I was pregnant.. they thought I had lost the baby because I was bleeding really heavy. I had my first ultrasound on a day I was passing large clottings but the baby was in there!

I did end up however losing him later into the pregnancy at 5 months

- Sarah on September 26th, 2007

I don’t understand why anyone would announce pregnancy at 5 weeks. It does seem like a cry for attention.

- Sarita on September 26th, 2007

When I miscarried, we had scheduled a D and C for the next morning, but I opted to have a second ultrasound before hand. It was with a more powerful machine that could measure several levels for the heartbeat. I had to make sure there was no “mistake.” Being my fourth pregnancy, I didn’t need the tech to tell me that there was no longer a heartbeat. I didn’t make it until morning and ended up back at the hospital two hours later.

And I know that CBB has covered this before, but since people keep saying it to me, I thought I would bring it up. Don’t ever tell someone who has miscarried things like “you have an angel now.” In my case I also get “at least you have three other children.” I didn’t want an angel and just because I have other kids, doesn’t mean I didn’t want this one too.

As for the comment of Kerry wanting attention, yes, there is a chance of that, but do you really want to risk the emotional pain for her to call her out on something like that?

- finnaryn on September 26th, 2007

Ok, just putting this all together. They say she is 5 weeks pregnant which would mean she conceived only 3 weeks ago (give or take – I know every woman is different) and probably just missed her period 1 week ago. Since learning she was pregnant approx 1 week ago she has spoken out three times about this pregnancy with quite the level of detail. Some celebs will use anything for attention and press. In my opinion, tt’s really quite pathetic.

- madison on September 26th, 2007

I don’t understand why anyone would announce pregnancy at 5 weeks. It does seem like a cry for attention.

Posted by: Sarita at Sep 26, 2007 1:54:24 PM

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I’m 5 weeks pregnant today, and my family as well as my husband’s family all knows about the baby, and they’ve known about the pregnancy since last week. Neither of us was able to keep quiet about the news for very long, because we are extremely happy about it (it is our first), not because we want attention.

Has it crossed your mind that maybe, some people are just excited over the fact that they’re expecting? I want to tell everyone that I’m expecting.. because I am so thrilled about it. I could care less about the attention that I get from it.

Just because you wouldn’t tell anyone at 5 weeks doesn’t mean everyone else should keep quiet about it.

- Me on September 26th, 2007

With the reported miscarriage and now being said she is still pregnant, I think she might have been pregnant with twins. Sometimes there are complications and a woman loses one twin but not both. I think that might have happened in this case.

- Stefanie on September 26th, 2007

ok i dont know the ins and outs of this but could it be possible that she was pregnant with twins and lost one? would that explain the high hormone levels or not?

my friend should have been born a twin but in the early stages of pregnancy her mum miscarried one of them.

- meg on September 26th, 2007

just waqnted to say kerry needs to look after herself and the kids she already has i used to be a huge faqn but have gone off her lately personally think mark is not good for her

- molly on September 26th, 2007

Not to beat a dead horse, but isn’t this the woman who also smokes while pregnant? And her third daughter was born early? Oy. Sometimes you can’t prevent problems, but sometimes you can…

- c_topanga on September 26th, 2007

I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks and all it showed was a gestational sack, I had another one at 7 weeks and you could see the embryo and a heartbeat. Is 5 weeks too early to see the embryo? Maybe they have a better sonogram machine then my doctor’s office?

- Wait a second on September 26th, 2007

I’m really sorry to say that and I know people won’t like it but I have to say I don’t undertsand how a woman who already has 3 kids ( even more when her last one is only seven month old !! ) can just become pregnant like this. Does she know about contraception??
And when we know about all the problems she has I just don’t understand..

And I’m sorry but why does she has to make all this public?? I’m pregnant..no I’m not..Ok I’m pregnant again..I don’t get that..

- Estherpanda on September 26th, 2007

if you read the article in ok, she says she announced her pregnancy early because the papers had got hold of it and when the interview was done she thought she was about 6 weeks pregnant.

i dont see what the problem is with her getting pregnant again so quickly, it happens. the baby isnt going to be loved any less just because it wasnt planned.

and i refuse to comment on how she brings up her kids, because the stories all originate in one place and that place isnt a reliable source. i have read so many retractions in it because of things they have printed that arent true.

- meg on September 26th, 2007

Well I really wish her the best what with all she’s got on her plate already she still went ahead and got pregnant??? I don’t understand, I really don’t think she is in a state to be dealing with all that. She has said herself she’s become a virtual recluse with no friends and cutting out her family particularly her mother cause everybody doesn’t like her leech of a husband. Add to that fighting for custody of her 2 older girls, a 7 month old baby to look after, a long battle with cocaine, booze the lot and add to that her long struggle with Bipolar Disorder, really she needs all the luck on her side. I hope that Mark will not be feeding her drug habit again. And did she not just come out of Rehab after she was robbed at gun-point. When does she get time to slow down and regroup? Godspeed!!

- ella on September 26th, 2007

You don’t understand how a woman with 3 children, one being 7 months old, becomes pregnant again?! There is absolutely nothing wrong with having 4 children and having them close in age. Her parenting is what I have issues with, but since you broadened your comment to “women” in general, I must reply. I have 6 children, all adopted, but all close in age to each other. I could just as easily have had them biologically, and I need not give you ANY explaination.

- To Esther Panda on September 26th, 2007

Wait a second – I don’t know but when I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks I only saw what you did, a gestational sack. So maybe there is a better machine?? So maybe thats why they thought she was miscarrying because the first ultrasound wasn’t as good, and maybe the second one was better?

Anyone know when you can usually see the heartbeat???

- Diana on September 27th, 2007

My my! How many Max’ is that? — Trista, Christina, Scott, (a musician who’s name is escaping me …) Looks like Max is on the rise

- brannon on January 22nd, 2008

the name Max is proving very popular at the minute. In all its forms.

Hope everything goes well for the rest of her pregnancy, it has been a rough ride for her so far.

- meg on January 22nd, 2008

Is this a DEFINITE that she’s expecting a boy or just another “I feel like it’s a boy”. When Kerry announced around Christmas time that she was having a boy, what she actually meant was “they couldn’t tell at the ultrasound but I THINK I’m having a boy” (as per OK magazine interview a couple of weeks ago). Would be interesting to know.

- emma on January 22nd, 2008

Strange. I have read last week’s OK and she wrote in there that she didn’t know the gender yet but that she was going to find out soon.
It is the issue that came out after 30 December, second week of January, to which it was announced on this site that she was having a baby and also had the new baby news of Christina and Nicole in it.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that Keri is a long term columnist for OK, so i’m just wondering if the baby boy news is true since i would think it would have been announced in OK already.
What’s the source on the name and gender?

Sarah’s note: You can click the link in the sentence and it will take you to the source. Anything in pink is always a link. It’s MTV UK, the site for her reality show.

- kim on January 22nd, 2008

With a very sensitive scan you can see the heartbeat at 5 weeks, as we did at our fertility Dr’s office. Internal ultrasounds can really show more detail, that is how we seen our daughter (she looked like a mouse!) at 5 weeks gestation.

- Snow on January 22nd, 2008

Wow – I just know of her through the tabloids that we read here in north america, but it does seem a bit unplanned that she is expecting her 4th child at 27 years old. I’m not suggesting that having kids early, or having many at such a young age is irresponsible, but she has 3 children by two different men, and it’s not clear if this fourth baby will have a third father. There is something to be said about stability in the children and mother’s life!

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