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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?

OP posts:
SilkFloss · 04/04/2024 18:26

"Her mum seems absolutely lovely"

Trust me, Amy Price is absolutely NOT lovely!

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 04/04/2024 18:27

OhhhhhhhhBiscuits · 04/04/2024 18:03

Her mum isn't 'dying" anymore than any of us are. She had a lung transplant some 16 months ago. Since then KP has stopped with the my mums dying and it's her last Xmas stories etc..... as she can't use that for press attention anymore.

Her Mum and Sister have enabled her behaviour for years and years to keep the gravy train afloat. Her Mum basically brought up Harvey on a decent wage paid by Dwight Yorke.

How any family can stand by and let her tell these lies in front of the children and neglect the children every time a new man comes on the scene is obscene. They should hang their heads in shame.

That's interesting re KP's mum and her mum and Harvey and Dwight Yorke.

I do think Katie seems interesting, if not annoying but her kids must be (well I would be) so embarrassed by some of her antics, there's a well known sex tape of her shagging Dane Bowers and she never seems to stop re selling her stories to the papers, she must have some sort of contract with them.

I think she's really lost sight of who she is and what she is and believes her own hype. Anything she's tried to make a go of that she's good at (the horsey stuff) has flopped, so she has go to back on the band wagon of boyfriends, trying to get pregnant, cosmetic procedures and staying relevant. There must be some people who've paid to see her in panto, doing live interviews though but to be honest she just looks silly a lot now. Even the DM etc articles, you can tell (as with every other Z list) what it's going to be next for her, she's lost her allure and appeal to everyone but the real thickos of the general public.

Blondeshavemorefun · 04/04/2024 18:33

And the op @whatthesaar never returned

What was the point of this thread and replies

Totallybannanas · 04/04/2024 18:35

SilkFloss · 04/04/2024 18:26

"Her mum seems absolutely lovely"

Trust me, Amy Price is absolutely NOT lovely!

How do you know this? Obviously I don't know her in real life but she always comes across as worried about Kate. I do stand by that Kate's family cannot help her if she doesn't want the help. It's the same for any addiction/mental health issues. Every time she had surgery, people like Pete would be telling her not to have it done but she went ahead any way. As for the sexual assaults, what happened to women being believed? She seems to suppress her feelings alot maybe she has blocked alot of the details (self preservation).

LassyLook · 04/04/2024 18:38

”…. her dad running out on her mum and Katie at age 4 …”

What’s that got to do with the price of fish? I am sure there are many women who have uninvolved fathers who do not behave like KP! Sex revenge tapes, killing their pets including dogs and horses, drunk driving, part of the sex industry, constant lies, etc etc.

I don’t feel any specific hatred towards KP, she’s just an another low rent Kardashian type celebrity - but equally find the fawning love-in fans on this thread completely bizarre.

PS I once saw her sister on TV and she did seem completely normal by comparison. However… maybe it is the case of “follow the money !” Her mother got money for looking after her grandson, according to a pp. Maybe also her sister was part of the gravy train. So they may question “her choices”, but not too closely- ultimately are not going to upset the apple cart ?

SpecialOPs · 04/04/2024 18:47

Yes I read the Dwight Yorke paid her mum to be Harvey’s carer. I assume that money stopped when he turned 18 (did he have another paid carer after her mum got ill?) hence why he went into residential care. There’s no way Price could have been his 24-7 carer, like most parents of disabled DC are, anyway as she was always off on holidays or with her new men. Yorke also wanted to have contact with Harvey when he was little but she made it impossible apparently (quite believable from the way she behaves). Not defending him but I don’t think that was all it seemed. Didn’t she also stop Peter Andre from seeing Harvey again after they split after he’d been in his life for many years and called him ‘Dad’.

Having a DS with disabilities on a lesser scale to Harvey’s, I’ve always been disgusted how she has used him as a project to keep the stories coming. The SM bullying wouldn’t have been able to happen if she hadn’t put him in the public eye, he was not protected at all and did not have the capacity to consent, and she completely threw him to the wolves just to make money for herself. She’s absolutely despicable IMO. Now he’s getting older, I hope someone steps in to legally restrain her from using him in this way. Should have been done when he was much younger. The nightclub thing was horrendous. If she really wanted to introduce him to a nightclub, she could have done it when she herself wasn’t being paid for a PA. I can’t imagine a young man with his disabilities would have asked to go, knowing what that entailed, especially with how distressed he gets.

People are having a laugh saying she’s a great mum. The stream of men she’s introduced into her DCs lives, exposing her DC to the public, drug addiction, drunk driving, filthy house, financial mess all played out in the media. I imagine there’s much more gone on in private.

As somebody who’s suffered significant childhood and adult trauma similar to what she says she has, without the massive cushion of the enormous wealth and family support she had, I find it disgustingly insulting to use that as an excuse for the way she is.

Absolutely no doubt that she is desperate to stay in the public eye and will do whatever it takes to do so. She needs a complete media blackout for the sake of her DC and the younger two taken off her for good. I can’t imagine what they are being exposed to.

OhhhhhhhhBiscuits · 04/04/2024 18:51

Totallybannanas · 04/04/2024 18:35

How do you know this? Obviously I don't know her in real life but she always comes across as worried about Kate. I do stand by that Kate's family cannot help her if she doesn't want the help. It's the same for any addiction/mental health issues. Every time she had surgery, people like Pete would be telling her not to have it done but she went ahead any way. As for the sexual assaults, what happened to women being believed? She seems to suppress her feelings alot maybe she has blocked alot of the details (self preservation).

I have said this numerous times on this thread. Women are believed but when you have numerous different accounts straight from the horses mouth that change over the years over and over and over again it puts doubt in people's mind. If you were sat on a jury for the SA 'rape' could you honestly beyond a reasonable doubt say it happened? When there have been 4 or 5 different accounts from the victim, tv cameras there recording the aftermath, witnesses who were part of the robbery saying it didn't happen, the TV production company who will have viewed all of the unedited footage saying it didn't happen would you convict? Honestly? It gets more and more gruesome every time she tells the story. And this is in her own books and spoken interviews so you can't say the press lied or misinterpreted it. This is straight from her mouth.

Take today for example, I have just looked at her Insta. She says she is at the gym with the latest boyfriend. Next thing she is having more lip fillers in Essex, and her lip filler woman has a video on her Insta that says she is driving to KPs house to top up her lip filler. Which is the truth? Gym, Essex or home? All straight from her social media. She is a lying, cheating, abusive woman.

LassyLook · 04/04/2024 18:55

People are having a laugh saying she’s a great mum. The stream of men she’s introduced into her DCs lives, exposing her DC to the public, drug addiction, drunk driving, filthy house, financial mess all played out in the media. I imagine there’s much more gone on in private

^ this.

LassyLook · 04/04/2024 19:04

And, finally, I have no time for women who use their “sexuality” as a cover for nefarious activities. I would include Amber Heard, Meghan Markle, the Kardashian woman who-sold-her-sex-tape-to-be-famous and Katie price in that category. When they play the victim card and LYING on top, it is of course especially gross.

SilkFloss · 04/04/2024 19:09

One of the "but she's such a great mum" posters earlier commented on her kids appearing well-brought-up.
Leaving Harvey aside for obvious reasons, the fact that Junior and Princess come across as polite, humble and well-behaved is almost entirely due to them having lived full-time with Peter for many years and, before that, the amount of time and effort he put in with them. Katie is on record as saying that she likes her kids "to be feral."
The younger two, I won't comment on but I would suggest there are serious issues there, manifesting in different ways. The sooner they are back with their father, the better for both of them, in my opinion.

SpecialOPs · 04/04/2024 19:12

I remember reading that the stories about Kieran’s ‘sex addiction’ and shagging numerous nannies were fake (she apparently owed thousands in unpaid wages to one?) but were put out so she could get coverage.

Can you imagine the mentality of dining out on the press coverage talking about your children’s nanny (who she said the younger two were close to) shagging your husband in their bedrooms and making comments on her being ‘smelly’ if they were just for clicks and interviews.

I mean that is seriously fucked up.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 04/04/2024 19:13

LassyLook · 04/04/2024 18:38

”…. her dad running out on her mum and Katie at age 4 …”

What’s that got to do with the price of fish? I am sure there are many women who have uninvolved fathers who do not behave like KP! Sex revenge tapes, killing their pets including dogs and horses, drunk driving, part of the sex industry, constant lies, etc etc.

I don’t feel any specific hatred towards KP, she’s just an another low rent Kardashian type celebrity - but equally find the fawning love-in fans on this thread completely bizarre.

PS I once saw her sister on TV and she did seem completely normal by comparison. However… maybe it is the case of “follow the money !” Her mother got money for looking after her grandson, according to a pp. Maybe also her sister was part of the gravy train. So they may question “her choices”, but not too closely- ultimately are not going to upset the apple cart ?

This isn't what I believe - it's what a magazine/online article says - not me!

I don't think the same either way, but you never know, she could have 'daddy issues'.

LassyLook · 04/04/2024 19:17

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 04/04/2024 19:13

This isn't what I believe - it's what a magazine/online article says - not me!

I don't think the same either way, but you never know, she could have 'daddy issues'.

Understood. But these are clearly simply nonsense justifications.

MsLuxLisbon · 04/04/2024 19:45

RosaMoline · 04/04/2024 18:03

Regarding South Africa:

if she had been raped at gunpoint she would’ve immediately been admitted to hospital for a battery of tests for STIs (don’t forget HIV is rife in SA) and for evidence (DNA)
she would’ve been utterly traumatised and then flown home asap, not cage diving with sharks the next day & enjoying the rest of the trip.
Not only that, I saw a clip from her YouTube channel when she and her two youngest were watching Rupaul’s Drag Race UK. One of the queens was impersonating her, and made a joke about ‘my implants being held up by gunpoint in south africa’
KP was laughing along with the kids at this. If I’d been raped and it was being used as joke fodder on TV, I certainty wouldn’t be laughing.

She is a liar, a grifter, a narcissist, and a vile person all around. People making excuses for her should be ashamed of themselves.

Sn1859 · 04/04/2024 22:00

KP is slowly turning herself into a ‘love island babe’ because she's not relevant anymore. It's nothing to do with her or her attitude, it's just that times have changed since she started at 16 and she can't hold on to what she once had. She has said before that she loved the attention. As for the constant stream of partners, I know many people like that, she just wants to be loved. She won't be going after younger men who seem to just want her for fame (the last two more than anything). I try and avoid as much of her as I can but sometimes it's difficult

Hyperfender · 04/04/2024 22:05

RosaMoline · 04/04/2024 18:03

Regarding South Africa:

if she had been raped at gunpoint she would’ve immediately been admitted to hospital for a battery of tests for STIs (don’t forget HIV is rife in SA) and for evidence (DNA)
she would’ve been utterly traumatised and then flown home asap, not cage diving with sharks the next day & enjoying the rest of the trip.
Not only that, I saw a clip from her YouTube channel when she and her two youngest were watching Rupaul’s Drag Race UK. One of the queens was impersonating her, and made a joke about ‘my implants being held up by gunpoint in south africa’
KP was laughing along with the kids at this. If I’d been raped and it was being used as joke fodder on TV, I certainty wouldn’t be laughing.

That's your assumption of how a victim 'should' behave.
The day after I was raped I went out shopping for the day with my mum and sister. It baffles me now. But I was in shock, and desperate for things to be normal, so was determined to go through with the day.
I wasn't traumatised for a long time. It takes a while to get over the shock and disbelief, and to then attempt to process.

jennylamb1 · 04/04/2024 22:16

I do feel that there is a pathology to some personalities such as Katie Price, which interests me because it helps to explain the behaviour of other people you meet in general life who fit the same profile and who you puzzle over. Amber Heard has been diagnosed with histrionic personality disorder and I think that Katie Price could also easily fall within this this diagnosis:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionicpersonalityy_disorder

RosaMoline · 04/04/2024 22:17

Hyperfender · 04/04/2024 22:05

That's your assumption of how a victim 'should' behave.
The day after I was raped I went out shopping for the day with my mum and sister. It baffles me now. But I was in shock, and desperate for things to be normal, so was determined to go through with the day.
I wasn't traumatised for a long time. It takes a while to get over the shock and disbelief, and to then attempt to process.

But my point was, she would’ve been in the hospital having tests for STIs/DNA/the full works! - not on a bloody day trip.
I believe the carjacking happened and they were robbed. There are plenty of witnesses to attest to this. And that’s how it was initially reported. Over the years, she has embellished it considerably. Even the TV crew said there was no rape.

MsLuxLisbon · 04/04/2024 22:19

Sn1859 · 04/04/2024 22:00

KP is slowly turning herself into a ‘love island babe’ because she's not relevant anymore. It's nothing to do with her or her attitude, it's just that times have changed since she started at 16 and she can't hold on to what she once had. She has said before that she loved the attention. As for the constant stream of partners, I know many people like that, she just wants to be loved. She won't be going after younger men who seem to just want her for fame (the last two more than anything). I try and avoid as much of her as I can but sometimes it's difficult

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'Love Island Babe?' She looks like an old leather shoe.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 04/04/2024 22:37

MsLuxLisbon · 04/04/2024 22:19

'Love Island Babe?' She looks like an old leather shoe.

She looks awful but that’s the way she looks.

I know someone (sort of family friend) who about 15 years was saying she wanted to look like her and be like her and thought she was like her. This person has her own designer clothes and footwear label specialising in leather and fur but isn’t the Pricey type, or at least I didn’t think so. I mentioned (not that I believe in this) that their star signs are different but that Katie isn’t a Cancer and the friend was most put out.

I’ve gone down a rabbit hole with her and saw that her ex best friend who slept with one of her husbands is now forgiven so I don’t think she’s all bad.

icallitasplodge · 04/04/2024 22:52

Also just remembered when she jumped off a wall in Turkey and feared she would be in a wheelchair for life.

theres always something isn’t there Katie. I suppose PA made her jump off the wall….

Blondeshavemorefun · 04/04/2024 22:53

icallitasplodge · 04/04/2024 22:52

Also just remembered when she jumped off a wall in Turkey and feared she would be in a wheelchair for life.

theres always something isn’t there Katie. I suppose PA made her jump off the wall….

Didn't she break both her ankles /legs so wasn't sure if would walk

icallitasplodge · 04/04/2024 22:58

Yes very unlucky stuff. If I were as unlucky as KP I might go so far as to start doing something sensible like putting seat belts on my kids.

MsLuxLisbon · 04/04/2024 23:00

Blondeshavemorefun · 04/04/2024 22:53

Didn't she break both her ankles /legs so wasn't sure if would walk

Yeah, one minute she feared she wouldn't walk again, the next was tottering around on six inch heels.

dayswithaY · 04/04/2024 23:02

She really milked that one. I seem to remember her injuries became life threatening when her wheelchair got caught in a revolving door or something?