Let’s set the scene. It’s 2001. A gap-toothed Liverpudlian with a voice like sunshine and the charisma of someone who absolutely did not grow up easy is belting out Whole Again with Atomic Kitten, topping the UK charts for five consecutive weeks. Kerry Katona is famous, flush, and about to become one of Britain’s most tabloid-mauled women of the next two decades.
Fast forward to 2026. Kerry Katona is a millionaire. Again. And she got there by doing things that would have made those early-aughts tabloid editors’ heads spin clean off their necks: revealing that she has some of the Best Tits on OnlyFans. Good for her.
The former Atomic Kitten star joined OnlyFans after her work dried up during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she has no regrets about how she makes her money, because she would rather strip off on camera “for a grand a day than pick up litter.” That quote alone should be embroidered on a throw pillow.
To understand why this arc is so satisfying, you need to understand what the British tabloid press did to Kerry Katona for approximately fifteen years straight. After leaving Atomic Kitten in 2001 to have her first child, Katona became the nation’s favorite punching bag: a woman whose marriages, money troubles, and mental health struggles were served up as entertainment with gleeful regularity. She was declared bankrupt in 2008 and again in 2013, and previously discussed feeling suicidal due to financial struggles that saw her forced to sell her mansion after being unable to pay a tax bill. The same papers that printed her bikini photos on page three were printing her misery on page one. Britain’s relationship with Kerry Katona was not its finest hour.
Then COVID hit, and the pantomimes and reality TV gigs evaporated, leaving Katona in a genuinely desperate situation. She joined the adult platform in May 2020 after work drastically dried up, having to borrow £50 from her mum to set up the page, as she could only afford to feed her kids pasta or tinned and frozen food at the time. She consulted her five children before signing up. They were, apparently, fine with it. Which says something either wonderful or chaotic about the Katona household dynamic. Probably both.
What followed was a masterclass in monetizing exactly the thing people had been using against her. She made £160,000 in her first month, and things never really slowed down. She now charges fans £19.99 per month, earns tens of thousands each month from subscriptions, and has used the income to buy an amazing home and a Lamborghini, as well as to send her children to private school. The same woman who had to borrow fifty quid to feed her kids is now pulling up in a Lambo. The tabloids created this narrative arc, and they have to live with it.
When asked about total earnings, Katona was uncharacteristically coy. “I’m not saying because it’s just bragging, but a lot. In the millions.” That’s not bragging. That’s a victory lap conducted at 150 miles per hour in Italian leather seats.
She’s also put the money to work. Katona has launched her own clothing boutique and a dating app, crediting OnlyFans for providing capital to invest in herself and build more companies. The woman isn’t just selling content — she’s building a portfolio. Meanwhile, her critics are still typing angry comments from their lunch breaks.
“People are quick to say, ‘she’s desperate’ if I get out a bit of nipple, but I’ve made my first million since bankruptcy and I’m so, so proud,” she said. And she should be. Because the real story of Kerry Katona isn’t the tabloid version — the fallen pop star, the cautionary tale. It’s the story of a woman who survived a brutal industry, two bankruptcies, and years of public humiliation, then figured out how to flip the whole rotten game on its head and win anyway.
