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AIBU?

Kerry Katona

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Bryjam · 06/02/2019 20:33

She is currently advertising some diet injections, using an old picture of her as the 'result'. It's also the same picture she used for her Herbalife 'result'. It's also a picture that was taken after her cosmetic surgery!

AIBU to not be sure if she is being really stupid, because people who follow her will work this out, or if she really clever, because people are buying into her pish anyway?

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OhDearHowSadNeverMind · 06/02/2019 20:38

Is that even legal? Sounds like misrepresentation to me? I haven't seen the ad and wouldn't look at it for more than two seconds anyway because I can't bloody stand KK.
I think you can report this kind of thing to the ASA?

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Bombardier25966 · 06/02/2019 20:38

She's really stupid but has some very smart people using her as a money maker.

I have no sympathy, she's well aware of what's going on (even if she may not have been when she was younger), and she chooses to go along with it for the cash.

PBo83 · 07/02/2019 11:09

If the advert is on social media then there is a good chance she's had no involvement in it.

Martin Lewis recently settled out of court for the same reason. Some dodgy company selling a dodgy product will use, without their permission, photos of well-known people to add credibility to their product.

...Or she could just be an idiot.

Bryjam · 07/02/2019 11:11

It's on social media yes, but it's on HER social media so she must know about it, Kerry herself posts on her own instagram. It's also been in the papers, but I suspect they took it from her SM in the first place.

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PBo83 · 07/02/2019 11:18

@Bryjam - Ahhh...OK. I don't really use social media very much so won't have seen it. Definitely dodgy but she's sell her soul for a could of bag (or a couple of bags!) so it doesn't surprise me.

SmashedMug · 07/02/2019 11:21

If people are stupid enough to buy something on the basis Kerry Katona uses it, they are stupid enough to fall for old pictures.

RockyFlintstone · 07/02/2019 11:22

They are starting to come down hard on this, even without using pictures from ages ago.

There is currently a campaign to stop celebrities promoting diet products (eg. Appetite suppressant lollies, skinny coffee etc) on social media.

Birdsgottafly · 07/02/2019 11:27

She went on to loose Women, this week in a bikini.

That's the official image/bikini that is being used.

She had a mini tummy tuck, but all of the before pictures, were she put in weight, were after the tummy tuck.

The gutter press are running the old image when she was heavily into weight training.

But it's all good publicity, I suppose.

"but she's sell her soul for a could of bag (or a couple of bags!)"

You mean she's keeps making money and tries to work herself out of bankruptcy? Using her past drug issues is a cheap shot, it's been very much to do with being abused as a child and her MH issues.

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CatnissEverdene · 07/02/2019 11:32

There's probably a new love interest in her life that she needs to finance.

Bleurgh.

Bryjam · 07/02/2019 11:33

The gutter press are running the old image when she was heavily into weight training

That’s not the case though. The picture from when she was weight training is the picture Kerry herself has used both now and when she sold Herbalife. The gutter press have only used what she gave them, via her very own SM account.

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Fraying · 07/02/2019 12:05

Meh, maybe she uploaded the wrong bikini shot. If she was on tv in a bikini this week, then she's hardly trying to hide how she looks now.
Lots of female celebs endorse diet pills, injections, 'lifestyle' supplements. I have much less patience with the superstars endorsing these products. In fact, Jameela Jamil launched a petition this week calling for a crackdown on false advertising around the diet industry. You can sign it here That might be more productive than targetting Kerry Katona personally.

Bryjam · 07/02/2019 12:07

I wasn't targeting anyone? Don't try and turn my question into anything other than just that, a question.

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Fraying · 07/02/2019 12:14

Interesting that's the part of my post you focused on rather than the campaign . . .

UpToAndBeyond · 07/02/2019 12:17

Has Brian taken care of the children or given her any child support from Dancing on Ice?

Bryjam · 07/02/2019 12:18

Interesting that's the part of my post you focused on rather than the campaign . . .

Yes. Because my thread was about the advertising on SM. It wasn't a personal attack. I have the right to respond to that.

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Bryjam · 07/02/2019 12:19

Has Brian taken care of the children or given her any child support from Dancing on Ice?

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Butterpup · 07/02/2019 12:29

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UpToAndBeyond · 07/02/2019 12:35

www.itv.com/dancingonice/celebrities/brian-mcfadden-profile

Bryjam · 07/02/2019 12:36

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I don't get your point?

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UpToAndBeyond · 07/02/2019 12:39

Brian and Kerry have children together, he has a reputation for being a deadbeat Dad, offering no childcare and no child support.

You are criticised a single parent to five children for her choice in obtaining income.

Bryjam · 07/02/2019 12:44

Brian and Kerry's relationship and maintenance arrangements have nothing to do with my post. You may have well said Elvis Presley never provided for his child for all the relevance Brian has in this post. If I wanted to rip apart their lives I would have posted about them. But this was merely a question regarding the advertising Kerry is doing.

You are criticised a single parent to five children for her choice in obtaining income.

I have questioned the morality yes. Nothing to do with how many children or fathers of children Kerry has. But it's false advertising at best, and it's aimed at the younger generation. Our daughters, and that is not ok irrespective of how many children the advertiser has:

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halfwitpicker · 07/02/2019 12:45

The words flogging a dead horse spring to mind

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Doyoumind · 07/02/2019 12:51

There's a difference between actual advertising and promoting products through her own social media content. It's not covered by the same regulations.

Fresta · 07/02/2019 12:53

So single mothers can't be criticised now? FFS!

Bryjam · 07/02/2019 12:54

Legally yes. But promoting a product IS advertising. If you want to argue the point don't waste your time, just replace the word 'advertising' in my posts with 'promoting'. What she is doing is the issue here, not what you call it. You can't say have these injections and it will make you look like this if actually, you looked like this before having said injections

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