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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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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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 😢

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?

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
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?

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.

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?

mamacorn1 · 04/04/2024 10:46

It’s hard not to feel sorry for her really, she clearly is emotionally all over the place. In the same vein I absolutely do not like Peter Andre , and his ever smug wife, who clearly have all they have through his relationship with Katie price, as prior to that he was a former star with no interest at all.

Viviennemary · 04/04/2024 10:46

I agree this won't end well unless she turns a corner and ends this gate crash life style. She seems to enjoy sailing close to the wind and getting away with outrageous behaviour. I don't like her very much.

Crikeyalmighty · 04/04/2024 10:48

This is what you get when someone has a chronic need for attention and a lifestyle that depends on lots of cash- it's like Eastenders on acid. If she was wise she would have banked the cash , downscaled and faded out of public view at 35- but that wouldn't suit the desire to be 'in the public eye' - she's a bit of a sad case, but the press also need her to be so. I don't think there is a need to be vindictive, but for people defending her as others have said, you really wouldn't if this was a girl off the local council estate and if you would then you need to raise your standards

eggplant16 · 04/04/2024 10:49

She was absolutely stunning as a young woman. Its so sad. And Lauren and Kerry. All sad.

LolaLaRue · 04/04/2024 10:50

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?

Er, she's talked about all the animals she's killed- it's not a secret. She's made lame excuses for every single one.

What do you mean by list?- her driving offences have been widely publicised. It's not a secret that she's been in court multiple times for drink/drug driving. You dont need to keep some weird list to know she has done it many, many times. She narrowly escaped going to prison for it.

If she was drink driving and hit one of your family how would you feel?

StarbucksQueen1 · 04/04/2024 10:50

She’s an absolute state yes!

DoreenonTill8 · 04/04/2024 10:51

mamacorn1 · 04/04/2024 10:46

It’s hard not to feel sorry for her really, she clearly is emotionally all over the place. In the same vein I absolutely do not like Peter Andre , and his ever smug wife, who clearly have all they have through his relationship with Katie price, as prior to that he was a former star with no interest at all.

Whatever do you mean?

BloodyAdultDC · 04/04/2024 10:52

Thatslife18 · 04/04/2024 09:03

Let those without sin cast the first stone. Katie Price has been diagnosed with ADHD which definitely contributes to her issues. Most importantly she is a wonderful mother.

Wonderful mothers don't drink and drive, or drive whilst high, or drive whilst disqualified, or without fastening their kids' seatbelts. They don't abuse other mum's in the playground. They don't drag their disabled kids on PR tours for publicity. They don't abuse their former partners. They don't get arrested for all the things listed in a pp, or kill pets.

If KP was a random woman and their ex was posting about her atrocious behaviour, NOT ONE poster would say she was anything close to being a wonderful mother. We read it all the time on here about women claiming their partner is an abusive arsehole 'but he's a great dad', the overwhelming response is that he can't be if he's abusing their mum. KP has been in trouble so many times yet is still described as ' a wonderful mum'? I don't think so!

Beefcurtains79 · 04/04/2024 10:53

mamacorn1 · 04/04/2024 10:46

It’s hard not to feel sorry for her really, she clearly is emotionally all over the place. In the same vein I absolutely do not like Peter Andre , and his ever smug wife, who clearly have all they have through his relationship with Katie price, as prior to that he was a former star with no interest at all.

She’s a doctor isn’t she? Nice of you to completely dismiss her achievements.

tkwal · 04/04/2024 10:54

I agree with other posters . She was a beautiful girl when she first became famous but she seems torn between maintaining her fame at any cost or having a settled family life.
I don't believe any surgeon who cared about his/her reputation would continue to allow her to have more procedures but as in most professions there are some for whom money speaks louder than ethics.
I do believe she has low self esteem , it's getting worse as she ages and that's something no surgeon can fix. ADHD might explain some of her poor decisions but it doesn't excuse them. I doubt if she's willing to accept advice from outsiders , let alone seek the MH help she desperately needs.
I hope she can somehow realise that she can manage without a toyboy or another surgery, or another baby . If she keeps going as she is I can only see a very sad end to her career, but maybe that's the only way she will realise that its not the most important thing.

turnips4u · 04/04/2024 10:55

and his ever smug wife

How is she smug? she never, ever talks about KP and is getting on with her life as a doctor and mother. You have a very weird definition of "smug"

whynotwhatknot · 04/04/2024 10:56

she can blame add or some other thing all she likes

she consistently breaks the law uses her isabled son to get out of situations and in her house has ad numeruous pets die-the rspa want her banned but cant do anyting

she threatened her exes partner so much so she ha a restraining order-owes thousands but still as numerous surgeries an now wants a baby

why do people till stick up for her