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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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Chatonette · 04/04/2024 07:55

I hope she doesn’t have a baby with her current boyfriend/MAFS reality star. He’s an absolute loser. She seriously wants to procreate with him? 🤦‍♀️

WalkingThroughTreacle · 04/04/2024 07:59

She clearly has mental health issues. Maybe we should show some love and empathy for a fellow human being who is clearly struggling. If we are to judge, maybe we should be judging the sleazy industry (and society) that exploited a woman at a very young age and used a teenager as a topless model.

susiedaisy1912 · 04/04/2024 08:00

she hasn’t had a single decent person to support or advocate for her.

She's had her mum who has stood by her and supported her this entire time. She's a product of her own invention. Now that's she's no longer relevant in the public eye she can't accept it so her behaviour has become more and more bizarre.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 04/04/2024 08:02

Just because she’s had a crap life doesn’t make her a fundamentally bad person, most people aren’t.

Multiple drink/drug driving convictions and killing your pets makes you a bad person

Hoplittlebunnyhophophopandstop · 04/04/2024 08:03

Homesweethome23 · 04/04/2024 06:56

That’s incorrect. Her 2 youngest are currently in her care full time.

With ss involvement that doesn’t mean they been removed yet or will be. But she doesn’t have her oldest 3.

Brightandbubly · 04/04/2024 08:08

Not much of a Mother, v dysfunctional for them and uses Harvey as a performing seal

Homesweethome23 · 04/04/2024 08:13

Hoplittlebunnyhophophopandstop · 04/04/2024 08:03

With ss involvement that doesn’t mean they been removed yet or will be. But she doesn’t have her oldest 3.

SS are involved but that’s to do with the youngest 2 kids when they was in the care of their Dad.
Her oldest 3 are different as they are all over 16 now. 2 of them spend time with her when they choose to and then Harvey visits or she visits him due to his health conditions.

usernother · 04/04/2024 08:16

Chatonette · 04/04/2024 07:55

I hope she doesn’t have a baby with her current boyfriend/MAFS reality star. He’s an absolute loser. She seriously wants to procreate with him? 🤦‍♀️

Another child will ensure more time in the media spotlight and stories to sell. That's all it's for.

MsLuxLisbon · 04/04/2024 08:16

LSTMS30555 · 04/04/2024 00:57

I've always liked Katie Price. I think most her Ex's have used & abused her to inflate their own fame/career/profiles!
Since the young age of 17 she's been used by men for her body; I'd like to see anyone who wouldn't have struggled with that once she hit a certain age and had kids and that realisation kicked in.

Katie hasn't had a easy life by anyone's standards surely? I'm more shocked she hasn't had a mental breakdown long before now.
I wish her nothing but the best and really hope in time (after looking after herself properly first) she finds a decent man who loves her like she deserves.

Don't be absurd. She isn't a victim, she is a narcissist who thinks that rules are for the little people, who abuses animals, who thumbs her nose at her creditors, who drives drunk, who is a deadbeat mother. She doesn't deserve 'love' she deserves prison time! Why is this site so soft on crap women??

MsLuxLisbon · 04/04/2024 08:17

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 04/04/2024 08:02

Just because she’s had a crap life doesn’t make her a fundamentally bad person, most people aren’t.

Multiple drink/drug driving convictions and killing your pets makes you a bad person

Of course it does!! Good lord I feel as if I've taken crazy pills on this thread. The woman is a whole mess, not a poor ickle thing.

YourFluentCrab · 04/04/2024 08:21

I'm her age, and yes she's a mess. She needs better people around her and total media shutdown

Moonlitwalk · 04/04/2024 08:22

I'm fed up of the pious claims she is more to be pitied and merely in need of help. She's had endless allowance (because she's a celeb, and she cites Harvey) and opportunity to clean her act up, and the type of resources at her finger tips that regular people, who genuinely suffer depression and anxiety, could only dream of

I agree. If a non famous ordinary neighbour down the road was constantly drink driving and abusing animals in their care I highly doubt people would be defending them by saying they've had a hard life and so we should all care about them. People are so dazzled by fame its ridiculous.

Pluviophile1 · 04/04/2024 08:22

Misthios · 04/04/2024 07:41

Wikipedia tells me she's 45. You can add "deluded" to the long list of what's wrong with her.

Women can still be fertile at 45. Even if she isn't, she might pay for fertility treatment, so it is possible.

YoureALizardHarry11 · 04/04/2024 08:23

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 04/04/2024 08:02

Just because she’s had a crap life doesn’t make her a fundamentally bad person, most people aren’t.

Multiple drink/drug driving convictions and killing your pets makes you a bad person

No, it doesn’t necessarily. She clearly has mental health issues, her actions are symptoms of BPD/EUPD, caused primarily by childhood trauma/ toxic stress as a child. She has addiction problems. I don’t think she kills her pets in cold blood, THAT would be a bad person. I think she isn’t a rational person, is impulsive and reckless and has made bad decisions, is lax with responsibility at times. That’s not a bad person, that’s a troubled person.

willWillSmithsmith · 04/04/2024 08:25

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

Well there are different levels of mistakes aren’t there? The problem with Katie is she never learns from hers. She is her own worst enemy.

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 04/04/2024 08:25

Eastie77Returns · 04/04/2024 00:25

She seems very devoted to her oldest child.

Is this not a minimum expectation of any decent parent? And so many without the opportunities and wealth she has are much better parents to their SEN kids, not mainly but also because they give their kids privacy and dignity

Moonlitwalk · 04/04/2024 08:26

She is clearly unwell and needs help

She has had help! bloody hell- do you think she hasn't?- she's in therapy, has had multiple stints in the priory and has access to the best psychiatrists/therapists that money can buy. She has a supportive family-her mum, brother and her sister. She's not alone by any means. It's hardly our fault if she then chooses to spend her cash on plastic surgery rather than getting psych help is it? thats HER choice, she's not helpless.

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 04/04/2024 08:27

Her life has gone downhill because of the judgement/ set up to fall,mentality . She is clearly reacting to the poor media coverage.

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This will be useful for her kids to know when they end up in therapy, that none of it was her fault Confused

moreminieggsplease · 04/04/2024 08:29

I don’t doubt she loves and does a lot tor Harvey, but I’ve also witnessed her using him as a prop when she appeared on a show to answer about something she’d done. There was zero reason for his presence and all she did was mention her trauma and that she couldn’t go into it.
she has been a victim of many things but also chooses to be one in general. At some point you have to take accountability for your actions

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 04/04/2024 08:29

I wonder how forgiving her fans would be if she ends up killing another mums child on her next drink and drive escapade?

whatajoke26 · 04/04/2024 08:31

The biggest thing for me is that she continues to drive, despite being banned. She's off her head on drugs whilst driving illegally aswell. Why put other road others at risk?

However, she is a really good mum and would stand up for her children.

CantDealwithChristmas · 04/04/2024 08:31

As a recovered drug addict I can confidently say that it's always very curious how, when one stops taking drugs, one's life magically becomes a lot easier. Bad things stop happening to one; one stops doing bad things.

My experience says that one single action (putting down the drugs) can resolve a whole host of problems, messes and screw-ups in one's life.

Mitsky · 04/04/2024 08:33

She’s clearly on the PR trail with her appearances on the gentle middle class podcasts like how to fail and comfort eating.

Nicetobenice67 · 04/04/2024 08:35

I think her heart is still with Peter

LuckySantangelo35 · 04/04/2024 08:37

It’s been recognised that most women do NOT need 2000 cals a day unless very active, breast feeding or whatever.
2000 is too much otherwise.
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