From multiple failed marriages to addiction and chaotic lives that were rarely out of the headlines, Kerry Katona and Katie Price were the original noughties hell-raisers and with so much in common, it’s no surprise they became close friends. 

Now the pair have something new to bond over – watching their daughters become young women and take their first steps into the limelight in their own right. 

Katie’s daughter Princess made her first foray into solo reality TV this week with the launch of her ITV show The Princess Diaries, while Kerry’s daughters Molly, Lily-Sue and Heidi are also weighing up their options in the worlds of entertainment and influencing. 

However, there’s none of the drama that their mothers were famous for in their heyday. 

For instance, Kerry’s daughter Molly is training to be an actress at Paul Mescal’s prestigious alma mater The Lir in Dublin, and recently said her dream role would be to play the titular role in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. 

Meanwhile, Princess has won plaudits for her maturity and authenticity in her new TV show, and is modelling herself on savvy businesswoman Kylie Jenner rather than her own mother Katie. Here the Daily Mail reveals how, despite chaotic times in the past, the girls are forging their own paths.  

Princess Andre

Princess Andre was born on June 29, 2007, to mum Katie and dad Peter Andre.

Despite her mother’s headline-grabbing life in the spotlight, Princess has built a life of her own. 

She is said to already have a net worth of £500,000 and starred on the cover of OK! Magazine for her 18th birthday.

While this is a substantial amount of money, this is only half of what Princess hopes to secure, as she has vowed to become a ‘millionaire by the age of 20’.

For a single brand deal video, the blonde beauty can earn anywhere between £2,540 to £3,810.

She also landed a solo TV documentary, The Princess Diaries, by the age of 18.

And it was recently revealed her next career move following the season finale of her hit ITV2 reality show.

In a shock career U-turn, Princess hopes to dip her toes in the music industry as she detailed her five-year plan.

Speaking to The Sun, she said: ‘I want to be a successful businesswoman which I am actually heading towards at the moment. So hopefully in five years’ time, it will all be up there.

‘I also want to get into music.’

Her father Peter, 52, shot to fame as a nineties heartthrob and is renowned for his 1995 hit Mysterious Girl.

‘We’ve got amazing things coming. Obviously the industry is very [up and down] but it’s always about picking yourself up and getting back to it.’

The Princess Diaries tracks the daughter of Katie Price and Peter Andre as she navigates life in the spotlight and unpacks her tumultuous upbringing.

Princess has also reportedly set her sights on becoming the UK’s answer to Kylie Jenner with her own billion-pound makeup empire.

She has given fans a new insight into her hopes for the future with her new TV show, which follows her attempts to establish herself as a makeup mogul.

Princess is also said to have made it clear that while her mum made her name as a glamour model, she has no intentions of following in her footsteps.

An insider told The Sun: ‘Princess has got ambitions of being the next Kylie Jenner.

‘Everyone’s been saying they can see that happening, with her own TV show and a makeup range coming out. She also has lots more deals in the pipeline to consider.

‘When Katie says that Princess is “following in her footsteps”, she isn’t.’

Heidi Elizabeth Croft

Heidi Elizabeth Croft was born on February 20, 2007, to mum Kerry Katona and dad Mark Croft.

Throughout her long-lasting career, Kerry has battled with bankruptcies, abusive relationships and drug addictions. 

However, Heidi, who turned 18 this year, has kick-started a life far different from her mother’s.

The star, who boasts 18,000 followers on Instagram, reportedly has just ‘done her first solo shoot’ last month, according to her mother Kerry.

Heidi is currently a brand ambassador for In Print We Trust, and she offers fans discounts for using her code, proving herself to be a budding influencer.

With her 18,000 Instagram followers, she is estimated to earn anywhere between £160 to £245 for each sponsorship brand deal video.

Heidi has been trying to break into showbusiness for many years, as she appeared on The Voice Kids in 2020.

Having confessed previously that ‘she knows she will be famous in the future’, the brunette beauty has also teased that she has considered going on Love Island when she is old enough.

And there is more to come for the star, as a source told The Sun last year that she had ‘already secured some incredible opportunities, including an [audition] for a lead role in a Pinocchio feature film’.

Heidi appears to be taking inspiration from family friend Princess as the Katona and Price families have been spending more time with one another over recent years.

Molly Marie McFadden

As the daughter of two famous noughties pop stars, a stint on reality TV followed by a clothing line with Boohoo and paid Instagram posts would be an obvious career path for Molly McFadden.

However, the daughter of Westlife star Brian McFadden and Kerry Katona has been living a decidedly normal life out of the spotlight that she was born into.

The 23-year-old lives in Dublin where she is an acting student at the prestigious Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin, the alma mater of Normal People stars Paul Mescal and Éanna Hardwicke.

Recently she was nominated for the Spotlight Prize, awarded to aspiring young actors in the UK and Ireland, and has expressed an interested in playing Hedda Gabler in Ibsen’s play of the same name. 

She graduated in 2022 with a Foundation Diploma in Acting and Theatre Studies and it’s believed she’s progressed to the three-year, full-time, intensive honours degree, which she will complete in 2025.

The degree course at the the Lir Academy is described as being ‘completely different’ to other drama schools where students might have classes for 14 hours a week.

Lir Academy students are in classes, workshops and rehearsals for at least 35 hours per week, and sometimes more when in production, and the environment is designed to simulate what you’d expect in a professional theatre.

Prior to her move, Molly lived in Cheshire with her mother Kerry and younger sister Lilly Sue, 21. Kerry also has Heidi, 17, and Max, 16, from her marriage to Mark Croft.

She shares her youngest daughter, Dylan-Jorge, 11, with her late ex-husband George Kay who died aged 39 in 2019 following an overdose.

Brian was based in Australia for much of Molly’s younger years while he was in a relationship with singer Delta Goodrem.

He eventually moved back to the UK in 2013 with his now ex-wife Vogue Williams, saying at the time he was ‘missing all the growing up’ of his daughters.

Molly has been living a regular student life in Dublin with snaps from her social media showing her enjoying nights out and trips to Europe with her friends.

Kerry travelled to Dublin in October to watch Molly perform in a play at the Lir Academy and gushed how proud she was of her.

Far from being a nepo baby, Molly’s showbusiness connections didn’t play a role in her acceptance because all students are required to audition for their place on the intensive course, which is described as being much more rigorous than other drama schools.

Appearing on Loose Women with Kerry in 2020, the youngster made a telling comment about how seriously she takes her career when she shot down rumours that she was set to appear on Love Island, insisting: ‘I’ll leave the reality TV to my mum.’

The budding actress instead has turned her hand to Shakespeare, appearing in student productions such as Much Ado About Nothing, in which she played Leonora, a female version of Leonato.

Molly has been based in her father’s native Ireland for quite some time after moving when she was 15 to live with her grandparents in Artane, north Dublin, and prioritise her education.

‘She did her GCSEs here in England, she didn’t get what she wanted so we spoke to her nan because Brian doesn’t live in Ireland,’ Kerry recalled in an interview with 2FM.

‘People think that Molly lives with Brian, she lives with her nan and grandad who absolutely adore her and have worked wonders for her.

‘She moved over there and she did three years of education and then she moved to London which she absolutely hated.

‘Then she moved back home and I said, “Why don’t you move back to Ireland, you were flourishing over there.”

‘She was desperate to get into the Lir and she finally got in the Lir.’

Lilly-Sue McFadden

Lilly-Sue McFadden was born when Kerry and Brian were at the height of their pop fame.

Despite having famous parents, Lilly has never desired to live off their names like other ‘nepo babies’.

Indeed, she spent several years working as a support worker in a care home for young adults with learning disabilities, a shop assistant in SpecSavers and a barista.

Lilly told the Daily Mail in 2023: ‘There’s a negative connotation around nepo babies. It is absolutely true, I technically am a nepo baby because I come from two wealthy parents who are famous, which has given me more opportunities but there’s nothing wrong with that.

‘I’m a completely different person to my parents and that is the truth. I have worked hard doing jobs that have paid me peanuts and I worked many hours.

‘I have made a name for myself in my own jobs but at the same time I do have opportunities that other people wouldn’t have… You just have to be self-aware. It’s not fair, of course it isn’t fair but that’s just life.’

Lilly has appeared on reality TV shows alongside her mum, namely Celebrity Ghost Trip in 2021 and has also starred in panto.

Her good looks, links to her parents and the fact she’s single have sparked rumours that she could sign up for Love Island, but Lily admitted the ITV2 show isn’t a natural fit.

She explained: ‘I love a pint, I’m not a wine drinker, I like a beer and my mum always says I’m such a bloke. I go down to the pub to watch the football and I have a pint.

‘I’d never say never… but I don’t really think it’s a bit of me. If they could swap out the glass of Prosecco for a pint of San Miguel, then I’d probably do it!

‘Maybe in a couple of years it might end up being me, I’m always growing and changing but at the minute that’s not really where I’m at.’

And in May 2024, Lilly decided to move to Ireland, as she confessed she is ready to ‘quit the UK’.

At the time, Kerry revealed in her OK! column that despite feeling emotional over having just one child left in school, she is ‘proud’ of Lilly because she has been accepted into a drama school.

She wrote in OK! Magazine: ‘Lilly is looking for a fresh start so has decided she’s going to move over to Ireland to live with her grandparents on her dad’s side.

‘I think it’s a good thing because she’s 21 so it’ll be nice for her to stand on her own two feet, she rules the roost at our house.’