Reality star Daniela Katzenberger (36) is usually just as colorful as she is squeaky happy. But there are also fears and worries in the life of “the cat” that keep her from sleeping at night. In an interview with “Bild am Sonntag”, for example, the 36-year-old admits: “Since my childhood I have had an incredible panic about being poor. […] This fear is deep inside me, it dates back to my childhood. I really need to go to therapy!”
Due to the current situation with sharply increased energy and other living costs, this primal fear has now come up “double and triple”. The reason: As a child, she “grew up with the feeling of constant lack. My mother was a single parent with three children, we lived in social housing, often didn’t even have enough money for the next electricity bill. Then it was suddenly in the booth too sometimes dark.” Bravely, her mother, Iris Klein (55), who is also in the public eye, did everything so that the three children did not “notice their worries”.
However, Klein could not always hide her desperation from her daughter. She often heard her mother “cry secretly in the kitchen at night when money was tight again. That was hard and has left scars on me to this day.” For the star, however, it also contained a kind of motivation, as she reveals: “My fear of becoming poor was always my motor.”
It is all the more important for Katzenberger and her husband Lucas Cordalis (55) that their daughter Sophia (7) learns how to handle money well. The seven-year-old should not fall for the fallacy that things always go so well financially. “How is Sophia supposed to live alone later and take care of herself if she only knows that you can always get everything? Sophia should also drive the bus and learn that toys cost a lot of money that you have to work for.”
