Friday, March 10, 2006
Thesun
KERRY Katona was blasted yesterday for claiming her doctor gave her the green light to smoke when pregnant.
The mum of two made the claim as she defended GMTV star Kate Garraway — caught puffing a ciggie weeks before she is due to give birth.
Ex-Atomic Kitten Kerry, 25 — twice voted Celebrity Mum of the Year — said: “My doctor said, ‘If you’re more stressed about not having a cigarette then you are better off having one’.”
She claimed the medic’s explanation was: “The stress of not having one harms the baby more.”
Anti-smoking campaigners branded her comments “ludicrous”.
Deborah Arnott, director of Ash, said last night: “There is no way the stress of not having a cigarette is going to be worse for your baby than having a cigarette.
“She has obviously interpreted her doctors wrongly.”
