As a child, Daniela Katzenberger heard her mother "cry secretly in the kitchen at night when money was tight again". This hard time "left scars," says the reality star in an interview. It is therefore important to her that her daughter also learns how to deal with money.
Reality star Daniela Katzenberger 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. The 36-year-old now admitted to "Bild am Sonntag": "I've had an unbelievable panic about being poor since my childhood. [...] This fear is deep inside me, it dates back to my childhood. I would have to be against it really 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." Her mother, Iris Klein, who is also in the public eye, bravely did everything so that the three children "didn't 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 that their daughter Sophia 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."
