Katie Price is a mess and seems beyond help?

None of this is new information. She's been like this on some level for years.
Personally, I feel sorry for her. Something has apparently gone badly wrong in her life and she has a LOT on her plate, some self-inflicted yes, but a lot no.

Yes, she puts herself out there constantly, talking about whatever her latest drama is. But she doesn't know how to do anything else but pimp herself out. She needs more support than she's clearly getting.

The social worker who gave her back custody of her two youngest was sacked because she was allegedly telling her how to scam the system in return for a job. This is possibly why, despite the issues, the youngest kids are with her full time.
The domestic violence incident where she left her 2 children alone with her abuser who was on a cocaine rampage (according to her own words) had lost her custody in the first place. At the time Harvey, who she loves so much, was left in a rented house with an unqualified babysitter and the guard dog (whose bark was removed and who had allegedly killed other pets due to its aggression) as her boyfriend refused to live with him.
Sorry for the daily mail link :
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12795743/Katie-Prices-social-worker-breaks-cover-driving-reality-TV-stars-children-sacked-council-getting-close-ex-model.html

I think Peter Andre did a real number on her and she's never been the same since.

I can't bear Katie Price. Saw her at Badminton Horse Trials many years ago waking around with a bevy of huge minders. She was promoting an equestrian clothing line there. What struck me was her demeanour- she was absolutely loving all the attention that she was attracting, which seemed hugely superficial. Really talented riders who have won Olympic medals just dip in and out of venues there doing sponsorship appearances etc by comparison. Her ego seems to hang entirely on being the centre of attention.

@Northernsouloldies

I looked at the videos. Harvey didn't look distressed and if it was, it was probably towards the end (which is very common for Autistic child even if they like the activity). Katie also did a special request and the club played Harvey's favourite songs. He is bound to be photographed / signed due to his mother! That is the unfortunate part of being in the limelight. She cannot keep him at home. He was 20 at the time, and was his first experience at a night club. Just because he has additional needs, doesn't mean he can't do "normal" activities.

I completely disagree with you. We need to always keep talking about drink driving and how it affects people, not pretend it doesn’t happen to spare the feelings of people who drink drive.

The campaign against drunk driving made HUGE strides in the late 90s/early 00s precisely because it brought a level of shame to people who did it. Why on EARTH would you object to shaming selfish arseholes running the risk of killing people?! What’s her excuse to drink drive - she can afford taxis, go on, what’s her excuse that we shouldn’t be talking about.

it isn't going to make the slightest difference to KP being out there and at risk of running down a MNer's loved one by slagging her off on here. That's disingenuous.

what a silly comment of course she could kill anyone if she continues her behaviour

I think she has mental health problems and it doesn’t help to start a thread which will inevitably end up in a bun fight between supporters and detractors. No-one can really know what goes on when celebs are out of the public gaze and I don’t think it’s helpful to speculate.

Just a point on a comment in the OP about dietary advice ‘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’.

The NHS doesn’t recommend these calorie levels for either gender if you’re trying to lose weight - they’re guidelines for weight maintenance and they vary according to age, metabolic rate and how active you are. My partner is diabetic and was recommended a supervised short term calorie controlled diet of around 500-750 calories a day for rapid weight loss to help his diabetes - in some cases it can actually put the condition into remission. I’m a wheelchair user and I know if I eat above around 800-1000 calories a day without adjusting I will gain weight. A lot depends on the individual.

I’m gonna actually go out on a limb and say (DISCLAIMER: I am NOT referring to what happened to her as a child or any assaults shes experienced) but when people say “She’s been treated badly by so many people especially exes” I tend to think “Well what’s the common denominator?”. She’s had 3 marriages and loads of serious relationships and just happens to have these enormous grievances with all her exes to the point she’s been slapped with a restraining order over the latest ex-H. I don’t have those grievances with my exes. Do you? I’m not buying that she’s never the problem. I think her fans maybe need to consider that she isn’t that nice a person

I completely disagree with you. We need to always keep talking about drink driving and how it affects people, not pretend it doesn’t happen to spare the feelings of people who drink drive

Well said.

She's an idiot, car crash, shallow, neglectful. Self obsessed.
I don't know why I don't hate her but I don't.
It's true she comes across as a wonderful mother to Harvey. But again you don't know if that's just for the cameras.
I always liked Peter Andre. Katie saying she made him, rubbish, he was a famous 90s pop star before he met her.
Neither were that nice on the programs I've seen but I remember Katie being absolutely horrible to him.
I've seen photos of her with her son Junior, he looks genuinely embarrassed. And Princess isn't close to her now. I think the youngest 2 will go with their dad and Harvey will be in care in future years.
I can see Katy being quite lonely and hankering after younger inappropriate men for years.
She's trying to cling onto her youth. We all have to let that go.
I feel sorry for her.

She's a dumpster fire and is to be pitied.

I fear that she will meet an untimely death

I will defend her on the Gareth Gates front.

She was 23 he was 17. Not an alarming age gap IMO. Nothing wrong with having sex whilst pregnant at all. She was single as was he. After she spoke about it, he lied and said she was a liar. He dragged HER name through the mud and made her look crazy. He only told the truth once he was no longer relevant. I don’t think she did anything wrong on that score

I know someone who's met her in a quiet pub and says she's lovely.

I think she has a lot of issues but she's also an attention seeker. Look at the other Z listers like Kerry Katona, Daniella Westbrook etc who sell their stories to the papers to keep them relevant, if people don't buy the papers or read about them online to keep them relevant then they'd just live their lives.

However, a few of them seem to have mental health issues which isn't helped by the media courting them for stories.

Nobody is beyond help.

I hope she gets the help she needs. To me she is the very example of what’s wrong with the ‘I take my clothes off because it empowers me as a woman’. Being famous for large boobs and a willingness to act like a male fantasy is shallow and, eventually, a route into poor mental health.
when your self-worth is based on shock value, there’s only one way it can go.
I suspect she has a personality disorder, formed in no small part by hideous experiences and expectations in her career.

Obviously I meant drink driver. Sorry.

Peter Andre is a complete and utter abusive arsehole and was a faded 90's pop star past his prime who was trying to reignite his fame star. What has he actually done since apart from singing, TV presenting and appearing on TV shows, as either a judge or guest or 60 Minute Makeover? He must be over the moon to be married to Emily who has a good job. I'm sure Katie is lovely face to face but must be very hard to live with, work with etc.

My aunt used to live near where Katie lived when it was in the countryside or where she was brought up and says she horse rides a lot but didn't say much else about her.

LOL at comparing women being murdered brutally for being a bit different or having an opinion to a woman who repeatedly flouts the law and behaves very dangerously.

Get a grip

I think Peter Andre did a real number on her and she's never been the same since.
@MsRachelHasSavedMySanity
I think there is an element of truth to this.

I think people need to stop commenting on other people's misfortune and treating it like salacious gossip.

Bitching about her on a chatboard isn't going to get it done, is it? You are being entirely disingenuous.

Why isn't there a thread about the work of MADD (Mothers Against Drink Driving)? That would be far more informative and perhaps effective since so many are talking of it in relation to KP.

It wouldn't though have the gossip value, I get that. I agree with daisychain01's post.

Yeah, blame PA- before that she was a perfectly lovely girl...😂

She has always been a mess. Things happened to her in life, her coping mechanisms are poor. It can happen to anyone, unfortunately she's in the public eye, which I think exacerbates everything. So many people are living similar lives in private - but obviously because she's had money and fame it's on another level with her.

At the other end of bankruptcy is people not being paid; at the other end of drunk driving is the potential to kill others. I have little sympathy; sometimes, one or two things go wrong in anyone's life, but with all the wealth she's had and the opportunities that brings, she really should have got her shit together by now. And it's going to get harder and harder for her to make money as she gets older, as her body was her main thing. The money she's wasted what good could it have done?

I didn't say anything of the sort. I simply said that I think he'd done a number on her - there's video footage of some reality show with them in and he was a real bastard to her.