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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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NonPlayerCharacter · 04/04/2024 10:11

PenelopeTitsdrop1990 · 04/04/2024 09:56

Sorry but I don't believe her.

Why not? Because if true, it hasn't made her a wonderful person?

Northernsouloldies · 04/04/2024 10:09

secular37 · 04/04/2024 09:23

Well Harvey is 21 I believe. Despite him having additional needs, what's wrong with him visiting a night club?

If I recall he was reportedly distressed and taking him to a pa for cash is bottom of the barrel stuff.hes a person not a prop..clubbers hanging off him taking selfies..

What of any of that do you think is acceptable?.

usernother · 04/04/2024 10:09

I don't remember Peter being really horrible to her but I do remember her talking to him in an awful manner.

LolaLaRue · 04/04/2024 10:08

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.

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.

Butchyrestingface · 04/04/2024 10:07

Number 5 - she made that announcement about 20 years ago. It's not news. How far back are you going, @whatthesaar ?

Would have thought the fact she's the Harold Shipman of the animal kingdom was a far more recent and present danger.

Ap24 · 04/04/2024 10:07

Plenty of us have been through horrible stuff, had terrible childhoods and MH problems. It's not an excuse and she needs to take some personal responsibility. If she doesn't have the capacity then she should be put in some kind of supported living.

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.

PenelopeTitsdrop1990 · 04/04/2024 09:56

FeckOffNowLads · 04/04/2024 09:36

Are none you aware that she was gang raped aged SEVEN?

What do you think that does to your mental health/ brain development exactly?

Sorry but I don't believe her.

hevs03 · 04/04/2024 09:50

She is a bitch, and needs locking up, cruel to animals to the point of death, an unfit mum, she is a coke head and cares about nothing and no-one other than herself. I hope the press do leave her alone so she can fade into obsurity only after she has served time, and paid back all of her creditors as I can imagine there are a few small businesses she owes money to who are struggling massively. She is one big red flag and her family (Mum/Stepdad and Sister) are no better. Can't stand the woman as you can probably tell.

PenelopeTitsdrop1990 · 04/04/2024 09:43

MarkSloaneComeBack · 03/04/2024 23:52

She's been through shit loads.

I like her. Yes she's made a lot of mistakes but haven't we all

Hope you haven't killed a shitload of your pets as well? 😡😡😡

How can you excuse that behaviour? 😡

Easipeelerie · 04/04/2024 09:37

I have both sympathy for her (because of the effects of her ADHD and possible other issues) but also surprise that she’s evaded harsher punishments for the various offences.
I’m stunned at how PA appeared to be so unpleasant to her (in their old programme together) but lovely to his new wife. I’m guessing it’s a combination of new wife being more stable and him being the same old personality innately but showing his faults in a moderated way. Or maybe he’s grown up a bit.
It appears that KP has support needs. She needs someone with her most of the time to help her with her organisation.

FeckOffNowLads · 04/04/2024 09:36

Are none you aware that she was gang raped aged SEVEN?

What do you think that does to your mental health/ brain development exactly?

YoureALizardHarry11 · 04/04/2024 09:34

YaMuvva · 04/04/2024 09:28

Can I ask where you personally draw the line on things like this? You obviously think continually committing dangerous and harmful crimes is fine if you have MH problems, what crime could a person commit before you decided their behaviour was inexcusable?

No. I said in an earlier comment she should be punished, but at the same time I don’t think she deserves the vitriol she gets from the public and simply being labelled as a bad person, attention seeking etc. people have no idea what she’s been through and it’s ignorant, frankly. It’s blindingly obvious she has significant mental issues from what is known about her, and she isn’t like that for absolutely no reason.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 04/04/2024 09:30

strawberryandtomato · 04/04/2024 09:17

Licence being taken away and court appearances. How has she gotten away with it?
I would hardly say she has

You do realise she doesn't give a shit and carries on regardless?

YaMuvva · 04/04/2024 09:28

YoureALizardHarry11 · 04/04/2024 04:05

Well, I guess that’s good for you then, isn’t it? You don’t know that she didn’t care. Sometimes things are nuanced, you can literally forget your responsibilities and become so wrapped up in yourself and overwhelmed. I have no opinion on her either way, really, but I’m wise enough to know that you don’t end up the way she is unless you have some quite extensive trauma. It’s pretty obvious to me that she’s unstable and being judged to hilt by people who don’t know her would only make it worse. It begs the question why her family didn’t step in and take care of her animals.

Can I ask where you personally draw the line on things like this? You obviously think continually committing dangerous and harmful crimes is fine if you have MH problems, what crime could a person commit before you decided their behaviour was inexcusable?

YaMuvva · 04/04/2024 09:26

RogueFemale · 04/04/2024 03:38

Shit happened to me, too, but how does neglecting animals make you feel better about yourself?

Happened to me too. It has, in a way, fucked me up but I’m not a criminal

SpidersAreShitheads · 04/04/2024 09:26

I think more than one thing can be true simultaneously.

Shes not had it easy, and raising Harvey would have been extraordinarily difficult.

But also, she exploits her children, particularly Harvey, for media coverage and social media likes.

She’s not “devoted” to Harvey. Shes rolled him out in the media at an age where he was incapable of providing informed consent, and arguably still isn’t in a position to do so. She repeatedly used him for sympathetic media coverage with no regard for his dignity or privacy.

When you have a child like Harvey, absence and change in routine causes them real distress. I know many, many SEN mums who can’t take a weekend away from their child because of how traumatic the child would find it. KP has fucked off on holiday after holiday after holiday - she’s not led a life that’s “devoted” to Harvey. She has left his care to others and flitted in and out as she wants. Now he’s older and in residential care she allegedly barely sees him - unless there’s a camera to capture it.

Of course she loves him- but surely that’s a bare essential?! That’s the minimum you’d expect from any parent. Just because she loves her child with additional needs, it doesn’t make her a good mum.

It’s almost as if having a child with complex additional needs has given her a free pass. She has exploited/not protected all of her children, but none more so than Harvey.

Having SEN DC myself that fall into the same category, seeing her described as a good mum is insulting.

JosiePosey · 04/04/2024 09:26

MarkSloaneComeBack · 03/04/2024 23:52

She's been through shit loads.

I like her. Yes she's made a lot of mistakes but haven't we all

Most people learn from them.

I used to like her and thought she had good business sense etc but then it all seemed to go down hill. The repeated animal deaths are what did it for me.

Its a shame because she did do a lot for autism etc and quite a bit in the background away from the press, I believe and could have become a real champion/change maker.

She needs some real time on her own with good support to look after her kids & herself properly and focus on them instead of the latest bloke.

Self esteem issues innit.

YaMuvva · 04/04/2024 09:25

YoureALizardHarry11 · 04/04/2024 03:28

She’s clearly quite mentally unwell. I don’t know why it’s seen as acceptable to chastise her all the time. To be that way someone has to have been through a pretty shitty life, you don’t end up that way for nothing.

Yes, she’s made some appalling choices but she clearly has some issues for her to accept the way Peter Andre treated her for one example, and probably others. It suggests she is vulnerable to abuse. It’s okay for people to get on their high horses. If your mate struggles mentally, you support and love them but because she’s a celebrity it’s somehow different.

To be honest she comes across as someone who has borderline personality disorder.

If my mate constantly drunk drove and harmed animals I’m not sure they’d be staying my mate for very long

secular37 · 04/04/2024 09:23

Northernsouloldies · 04/04/2024 05:45

Taking Harvey to a night club appearance? Just another cash cow to be milked.
If her name was Chantelle off any council estate in the UK , how much sympathy would she get...none .

Well Harvey is 21 I believe. Despite him having additional needs, what's wrong with him visiting a night club?

Halloweenrainbow · 04/04/2024 09:21

Agree the driving offenses, and parenting young children while clearly high on cocaine (as we saw in one of her docu-series) does put her in a bad light, but I think there's many positives to her character. I admire her speaking out about disability discrimination and the work she's done to criminalise online disability bullying/hate crimes. She tries her best. She never claimed to have a healthy diet in fact admitted having Marshmallow Fluff for breakfast! So glad to hear that her mother is doing better- they seem to have a great relationship and I think she needs her mother to keep her grounded. I hope she accepts help and heals from her trauma because its dominating her life and about to undo all the positives.

NOTANUM · 04/04/2024 09:20

I have no comment on KP other than she clearly needs professional help rather than public scrutiny.

Peter Andre did well out of the marriage though. He got a huge settlement which was never revealed (6 million?) and didn’t get the tax bills. He has capitalised on it well, seems to have had a decent life afterwards but it’s still a lot of money.

turnips4u · 04/04/2024 09:18

Gowlett · 04/04/2024 09:14

turnips4u, ah that makes sense then. Claire is the one I was thinking about. She was probably behind the reinvention from Jordan to Katie Price. The OK mag days with Peter & the kids (which he’s now doing to brilliant effect with Emily). That was the right direction… I think their divorce really ruined KP.

Yep. Claire was the one who encouraged her to change from Jordan to KP and then she ended up doing loads of OK covers which was the point where she was earning tons of money. Claire earnt her a lot of money and she still does for Peter. I think once her and Peter split she left Claire and started making up all kinds of slander against her probably out of jealousy and spite.

She really is her own worst enemy. She should have stuck with the team that took her to the top. She was worth 45 million at one point.

strawberryandtomato · 04/04/2024 09:17

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 04/04/2024 09:16

Plenty like this, just not in the public eye.

Anyone not in the public eye would be punished, unlike KP who is allowed to get away with it time and time again

Licence being taken away and court appearances. How has she gotten away with it?
I would hardly say she has

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 04/04/2024 09:16

Plenty like this, just not in the public eye.

Anyone not in the public eye would be punished, unlike KP who is allowed to get away with it time and time again

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