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Katie Price is a mess and seems beyond help?

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whatthesaar · 03/04/2024 22:44

Reading the tabloids of late and Katie Price seems desperately out of control.

  1. She has been declared bankrupt for the second time, owing nearly £762,000 in debt to HMRC.

  2. She has been caught driving without a licence and insurance again and claimed she did not her attend her court appearance due to her ADHD.

  3. Currently planning on having a baby with her latest boyfriend who she has only been dating for a couple of months.

  4. Constantly making snide remarks about her ex's.

  5. Announced to the whole world on a podcast that she took Gareth Gates virginity when he was 17 and she was 6 months pregnant.

  6. Promoting a low-calorie diet on Instagram where she detailed her meals adding up to only 755 calories a day.
    The NHS states the recommended daily intake is around 2,000 calories a day for women and 2,500 for men.

I know Katie Price has never really had a clean cut image but surely she must realise what a mess she has become?

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Beefcurtains79 · 04/04/2024 10:44

lul1 · 04/04/2024 10:43

@LolaLaRue No some of the driving offences will be true but who has a list?

Who knows every animal killed on her property?

What about the revenge porn?

ConsistentlyElectrifiedElves · 04/04/2024 10:44

I can't imagine it ending well for her, sadly. She's been given such opportunities over the years, but has squandered all of them in exchange for more and more "fame", whatever she sees that as.

Quite frankly she comes across now as a washed up hasbeen that is desperately trying to cling on to her 20s but is effectively a glorified sex worker on OnlyFans.

How she ends up bankrupt so many times, gets caught driving without a licence repeatedly and all the animals that die under her care, yet has still never ended up facing serious time I'll never know.

I feel sorry for the kids. Thankfully Harvey is now living somewhere with appropriate supervision and the other kids are close with their fathers. Peter Andre's kids particularly have a stable second home where they seem to have routine and support.

lul1 · 04/04/2024 10:43

@LolaLaRue No some of the driving offences will be true but who has a list?

Who knows every animal killed on her property?

producing24 · 04/04/2024 10:42

I cant forgive

  • constant lies about SA. Eg every time she mentions rape, the park incident its totally different (her mum said it was a flasher in her mums book publishsd 2023).
  • lying about south affrican car hijack (said was raped in front of her children) but was 100% fine no marks on camera laughing next day. iTV denied it and not worked with her since. Junior barely been seen wirh her since thay massive lie
  • dwight paid £30k pa and wanted to see harvey. She is so awful to dads they always go theu her mum or new man of the momenf as she alienates/ ruins reputafions pf all. She barely saw Harvey her mum had him 24/7 tjen he went straight into care age 18
  • the revenge porn on alsx reid and never paying him damages. Wtf! Should have been cancelled then. Hes a nice man
  • coercive control on so manu of these younger guys she captures. Eg getting pregnant ASAP by kieran hayler (so soon he didnt think it was his), tricking Alex Reid into marriage after a few months when she obv barely tolerated him (watch it on her tv show, quick shocking how calculated she is tricking him, his poor mum didnt go and he felt he couldnt back out)
  • alienating her youngest 2 from theor dad due to jealously (as always!!) over his fiance michelle. So sad as rhe two are lovely people and could properlg nurture them
  • all the cruel commenfs about princess looks over the years (called her ugly last week) hence princess is low contact eg sees her 4-5 times a year despite living locslly. Commenfs to emoly andre 'fishy' etc. just horrendous
Beowulfa · 04/04/2024 10:40

I'm genuinely appalled that people are so willing to gloss over her multiple driving offences.

When I was 12, a kid in my class lost his dad to a drunk driver on the wrong side of the road.

It is disgusting arrogant, selfish, shameful behaviour regardless of celebrity status. It is only by luck that she hasn't maimed or killed anyone so far. How long do you think this luck will hold out?

Ihateboris · 04/04/2024 10:37

YaMuvva · 04/04/2024 01:06

She’s always had poor media coverage. Drink driving is not an acceptable reaction to that

Indeed. Nor is cruelty and neglect to animals 😢

anxioussister · 04/04/2024 10:35

But she’s exactly the sort of mess the public love to hate isn’t she.

Hot / objectifyable enough for lads mags, ‘shameless’ enough to own it in a way that makes it seem less like she’s being exploited - but never quite together enough to make it work and come out the other side - so we also get to feel a bit superior despite her periods of financial success. She’s also been around long enough to have a pretty wide ranging audience

There is undeniably a part of me fascinated by her - she’s absolutely perfect tabloid fodder and I can’t work out how carefully calculated it is. I hope it is more calculated than it appears, because the reality looks increasingly awful for both her and her family.

Moonlitwalk · 04/04/2024 10:29

She has failed to find some class as she’s aged and can’t compete with the love island influencers. I honestly don’t know what the future holds which must be extremely sad for her family. When you’ve spent a life time trading off your body and face it’s going to be difficult to find an alternative career when the looks and body fade

Yes, I always think it must really suck when your entire self worth/career is based on your looks alone. When you age and your looks start to fade the ones who remain successful are the ones who invested their wealth when they still had it. If she had invested properly back then she'd still be worth millions now. But she was stupid and thought the gravy train would never end- very very foolish. It's also quite astonishingly arrogant.

CagneyAndLazy · 04/04/2024 10:29

I’m sure her mother is worried sick.

Any reasonable mother would have washed her hands of her years/decades ago.

CagneyAndLazy · 04/04/2024 10:28

She should be in prison. Multiple times over.

Driving while disqualified carries a sentence of up to 6 months in prison, and she's been caught doing it multiple times. God knows how she isn't behind bars.

She's probably planning on getting knocked up yet again to avoid custodial sentences for all the crimes she commits.

Vile, vile woman.

EraOfTheGrey · 04/04/2024 10:26

The worse thing that can happen to that woman is to not give her a single second of publicity.

My brother sustained brain damage from being hit by a drive driver. People that drink drive are despicable, it's unforgivable.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 04/04/2024 10:19

You’ve only got to look at interviews with her when she was really young to see her personality and nothing has really changed. She would blurt out inappropriate, crass things and everyone would laugh awkwardly. She got away with it because she had the naivety of youth in her side (and we were in the era of ladettes).

Unfortunately she is rough as old boots now, so telling stories about taking a young man’s virginity whilst being six months pregnant just makes most viewers feel 🤢. She has failed to find some class as she’s aged and can’t compete with the love island influencers. I honestly don’t know what the future holds which must be extremely sad for her family. When you’ve spent a life time trading off your body and face it’s going to be difficult to find an alternative career when the looks and body fade. I’m sure her mother is worried sick.

lemans · 04/04/2024 10:19

After her first bankruptcy she bought her boyfriend at the time a new Bentley. Not my idea of bankrupt!

LolaLaRue · 04/04/2024 10:17

lul1 · 04/04/2024 10:15

You can't believe everything you read online l

Oh, so the drink driving offences arent true then? well that was a very elaborate set up from the courts then. Who paid them to set that up? and who placed her car overturned on that country road?

Ap24 · 04/04/2024 10:17

JudgeJ · 04/04/2024 10:11

I don't understand why so many people on MN jump to her defence, if they were to be caught with so many driving offences do they think they would still be walking around free? She seems to get away with everything and has a constant stream of fashionable excuses, I have no sympathy for her, she is the victim of her own arrogance.

I wonder if they would be so sympathetic if she were to hit them or their family members whilst drink driving?

FluffyFanny · 04/04/2024 10:17

KP claims to have been raped at least 3 times. Hmm, funny how she wants to be so vocal about it yet at the same time doesn't want to prosecute.

lul1 · 04/04/2024 10:15

You can't believe everything you read online l

LolaLaRue · 04/04/2024 10:14

Well the prisons should empty as am sure that covers most of the inmates!

Yes! let them ALL out as this covers everyone in prison surely?

horseyhorsey17 · 04/04/2024 10:13

LolaLaRue · 04/04/2024 10:08

Yup. I also have ADHD. I have never driven drunk (let alone multiple times), killed animals or neglected my kids to the point they were taken away from me. Thats really bloody insulting to those of us with ADHD.

I wouldn't be surprised if she's actually self-diagnosed herself with ADHD, rather than having an actual medical diagnosis. It sounds like she's just using it as an excuse, which makes me suspicious of the veracity - especially as there is something of an ADHD bandwagon going on at the moment.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 04/04/2024 10:13

Beefcurtains79 · 04/04/2024 07:47

This. Mumsnet is full of celebrity arse lickers, it’s so strange. She was banned from her child’s school for screaming at her children’s stepmother that she was a fucking cunt, many times in front of all the children present- including her own.
I imagine if that tale was told in AIBU? Everyone would think she was a terrible mum, but she’s famous so her behaviour is constantly ignored, justified and excused on here.

Edited

That is true. It is also true that this is a bloody horrible thread and, if people stopped talking about this woman she would simply fade away.

But, what for spiteful chat then? I see the dilemma.

StBank · 04/04/2024 10:13

If you like podcasts listen to her on Elizabeth Day's How To Fail. It's quite interesting. She's had such a strange life that I'm not surprised she's like this.

DoreenonTill8 · 04/04/2024 10:12

horseyhorsey17 · 04/04/2024 09:59

I've got ADHD - it's not an excuse for being a dick.

She's just an obvious massive cokehead. The problems will continue until she stops spending a fortune on sticking powder up her nose.

Exactly.
So we're now saying reasons for not being held responsible for criminal behaviour and it should be 'poor you' include
-drug/alcohol use
-having children
-problematic childhood
-employed in six industry
-fame
-suspected/actual ND
Well the prisons should empty as am sure that covers most of the inmates!

JudgeJ · 04/04/2024 10:11

DoreenonTill8 · 03/04/2024 22:48

I don't understand her apologists who constantly state she's a poor victim in all of this, and it's all everyone else's fault!

I don't understand why so many people on MN jump to her defence, if they were to be caught with so many driving offences do they think they would still be walking around free? She seems to get away with everything and has a constant stream of fashionable excuses, I have no sympathy for her, she is the victim of her own arrogance.

turnips4u · 04/04/2024 10:11

what's wrong with him visiting a night club? he is distressed by loud noises and is blind. So yeah, taking him to a loud nightclub is cruel and he was obviously distressed in that environment.