Personal Life
Woodburn was constantly beaten by her mother throughout her childhood and neglected by her father, who later attempted to molest her as a teenager. Woodburn has one sister and one brother, and several half-sisters and half-brothers born to her mother and various men. Her mother died in 2000.
After fleeing from her home and moving from job to job, she became pregnant by her then boyfriend, who then left her. In February, 1966 she gave birth three months prematurely to a stillborn boy. Terrified of the stigma of being an unmarried mother and alone, she buried the baby's body in a nearby park. After this, she changed her name to Kim in an attempt to forget her past.
Her first marriage to a policeman ended in divorce in the 1970s, after she became a victim of domestic violence. She is currently married to Peter, also a former police officer and three years her junior. She has no children.
She owns two properties, one in Old Oxted, Surrey, the other in Crowborough East Sussex.
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