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Katie Price and the rift with her kids?

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youreactinglikeafunmum · 10/08/2025 15:26

I think that Peter Andre treated Katie badly and now it seems like the kids have turned on her?

Shes not allowed to be on Princess' show apparently

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Lotsofsnacks · 10/08/2025 20:51

Truetoself · 10/08/2025 16:54

On which show did PA treat KP badly? I watched their reality show and didn’t see any bad treatment and he was so upset after they broke up

I used to watch this all the time back in the day, cannot remember him being mean to her, but it was KP constantly taking the pee out of him.

Testerical · 10/08/2025 20:50

It’s a shame people (including me - because I read the media, and am commenting here, so … ) waste precious oxygen on these malingering wastes of space. There are a million other hugely talented people who deserve our attention. Why are we frotting over this moral vacuum of a family who measure their self worth in clicks and likes? It’s obscene.

Bankruptcy, farming disabled children out, multiple divorces, stupid dangerous plastic surgery in cheapie locstions, kids who have been exposed to the media from being little without their consent, dead pets, horrible reality tv shows … just grim.

MarieAndTwinette · 10/08/2025 20:41

MsChilds · 10/08/2025 16:27

There’s something mendacious about PA, I’ve seen clips of the old TV show where he is vile to KP

The clips are misleading. In the full programme KP is offensive and goading. She is in a bad mood and he tries to get her out of it but ends up getting into a bad mood himself. He comes across as having had some kind of mental breakdown and she seems to know his weak spots and twists the knife in bringing him to the brink of breakdown. She is not ok.

MouldyCandy · 10/08/2025 20:41

She's not academic. She opened her exam results on camera (TikTok?). She was (is?) enrolled at Beauty College but now appears to be going down the TV fame route.

berightorbehappy · 10/08/2025 20:40

I think they are both awful and it’s a wonderful fact of nature that children are born with their own personalities as Princess and Junior seem sweet ! Glad they have each other …

x2boys · 10/08/2025 20:34

lifeonmars100 · 10/08/2025 17:55

I think that both of them are less than ideal parents, and this whole concept of monetising your life, which has now become Princess's "career" option, is a bit grim. I wonder if his kids with Emily will be encouraged to go down the same route or if they will have a different focus such as education and qualifications. What exactly is Princess going to be doing? Promoting make up brands and mid range clothing I guess and then a stint on Love Island?

She's been on tv since she was a baby she's tol well known to get an ordinary job ,I have no idea if she is academic so university may or may not becout of the question so yes I imagine she will go down the z list celebrity route like a lot of " celebrities " kids

MarieAndTwinette · 10/08/2025 20:28

She is so fame hungry that she would be willing to take over her daughter’s show. Appalling. Most people want their kids to shine. Katie sees it as an opportunity to revive her stalled career.

it was obvious from the start that Katie wanted to do a double act with her daughter. I bet she would have supported Princess going on Only Fans but Andre would put his foot firmly down. Good.

I wish princess very success with her career.

choccytime · 10/08/2025 20:22

@Gemmawemma9 Do you believe everything you read ? She 's a lying narcissist

Glowingup · 10/08/2025 20:18

JayJayEl · 10/08/2025 18:44

Wait...her not ABANDONING her son makes you respect her?? That's the absolute basic of basic things you do for a child - be a parent. Just because he has complex additional needs it doesn't make her some sort of respectable person just because he stayed with her. I don't mean to be rude, but I find it absolutely barmy that you even think that she "could've... abandoned..." ANY child.

Also Katie’s mum raised Harvey. Not Katie. Despite what she says.

MegaMinion34 · 10/08/2025 20:12

I remember a couple of years back she did a documentary where she wanted to start IVF to have another baby with the man she was dating at the time (who she's no longer with). She's in her late 40s and already has 5 kids ffs, none of whom she has custody of. She seems desperate to stay relevant and in the limelight and has always exposed her children to the media/used them for money and fame, pretty much from birth. I'm not a huge fan of PA either but he at least appears to be a stable, responsible parent.

I do believe that she has suffered trauma and abuse, but I also believe that she isn't a particularly good person or responsible parent. All three of those things can be true simultaneously.

DaisyChain505 · 10/08/2025 20:10

She’s killed dozens of animals, done drugs around her kids, had her drivers license removed yet still driven, had two taken from her by social services and the older two have distanced themselves from her, she’s pimped Harvey out to make money by making him to appearances in nightclubs and many other awful things.

shes a shit person.

Glowingup · 10/08/2025 20:10

Gemmawemma9 · 10/08/2025 17:28

People are accusing her of lying about being raped.
Abhorrent.

Her mum says it didn’t happen. I’m actually more inclined to believe her mum on this than her.

Fancyflapjack1 · 10/08/2025 20:08

The 2 youngest children were removed from her care, the next 2 were raised by their father, the eldest has been in a full time residential college for years. She assaulted a woman at the school gates, housed her children in squalor (the ‘mucky mansion’ was not cute, it was a sign of her chaotic drug use and narcissism) killed their pets, had their childhood home repossessed through bankruptcy, crashed her car while drug/drunk driving with the youngest at home, and paraded them all as tabloid fodder throughout their lives. She is by any standards an unfit mother and a deluded middle age has been desperate for attention. Princess has to live with the knowledge that there is a photo of her mum with actual shit on her belly. Thank goodness she has at least one stable parent.

ohyesido · 10/08/2025 19:56

Just seen a clip of Peter reading/ hearing things men have written about Princess.

just why?

Didibluex · 10/08/2025 19:53

I don’t think she’s lied about being SA as a child. I remember reading her first autobiography 20 years ago and it was mentioned.

I used to watch her series with Pete. If anything rewatching it, he seems the narcissistic one.

carchi · 10/08/2025 19:52

Call me old fashioned but I thought mothers tried their best to be good role models for their children. Maybe her children are old enough now to realise that they don't want to follow her lead but make something better for themselves. Her hanging onto them will only hold them back she will use them and exploit any success they have for her own sad glory.

Illegally18 · 10/08/2025 19:52

Plastictreees · 10/08/2025 19:25

I know it’s not the point of the thread, but I find it depressing how young people now aspire to be ‘influencers’ and create ‘brands’. It all seems to vapid and vacuous. Especially those with rich parents who have so many opportunities for further learning and growth. It seems KP’s children’s futures were mapped out from birth, they’ve always had so much media exposure. Did they ever think other career options were available to them? You have to wonder about the harms of it all.

I totally agree... You'd think Princess had already had all that nonsense up to her eyeballs! Apparently not. An 'influencer' FFS!

SaratogaFilly · 10/08/2025 19:48

youreactinglikeafunmum · 10/08/2025 16:01

For me its how peter treated her on that documentary which shows me that hes a shit person

There's some talk a out his manager having an input in the show, and having had a part to play in destroying Katie's image

She is a mess, there's no doubting it. Shes gotten many things wrong and hasn't changed her ways, its not good and I dont judge anyone for disapproving of her 🤷‍♀️

But I cant help but feel that shes also a victim and that Peter's impact on their kids has helped contribute to the rift

I would say that she never abandoned Harvey, when she really could've though. That for me, makes me respect her a little.

I agree with this. I’m not a fan but I do feel she’s been used & abused by the men in her life.

LadybugsAndSunshine · 10/08/2025 19:48

What happened to Bunny and Jett? I heard they were removed from their dads care after his girlfriend assaulted them ( I saw a video at the time of her screaming and throwing food at them) And then KP got custody but lost it, I don’t know why though.

PersephonePomegranate · 10/08/2025 19:48

I didn't watch their shitty reality series, so can't comment other than everything we see is edited to suit someone's agenda and sell, basically.

Not defending PA, my impression has always been that he's an absolute wanker, but KP is certainly no better. Turbuent relationships, multiple kids with mutliple partners, all the surgeries, financially insecure (how? We can only guess, but mine is white marching powder), the 'mucky mansion' and so many pet dog deaths.

Those poor children.

YouOKHun · 10/08/2025 19:44

I’d be interested to know about the people around KP. She is clearly not psychologically healthy but seems to have people around her not acting in her interests and who gain from her decisions and publicised chaos. Whether that’s the endless knuckle heads she dates or the cosmetics surgeons who agree to operate on her. She needs different people around her.

I know two people who have worked in close proximity with both KP and PA who have both come to the same conclusion about them, which is also what I would have assumed. One person I know worked with them for over a year regularly, away from the media. She started off expecting to loathe KP and find PA the sensible one. She came away from the experience feeling very different; that Katie was troubled but basically a much nicer person than PA who she thought was a nasty piece of work (but less troubled and therefore much better at presenting an acceptable face). The other person I know said exactly the same to me after months of working with them. Neither of these two people know each other yet they both, separately, came away with a deep dislike of PA, not KP.

Jibberjabba · 10/08/2025 19:43

she churned out babies so she could sell her pregnancy, birth, early days at home etc to the likes of Hello and OK magazine back in the day, all her children have been used as money making machines.
Comes a time when she has to start taking responsibliity for her own actions, she hasnt brought up any of her children, the dads have. Social services would not have taken this decision lightly and imo absolutely she has no defence.

DollydaydreamTheThird · 10/08/2025 19:40

Literally could not give less of a fuck! I have no idea why people become obsessed with the lives of people they don't even know!! I don't think I will ever understand it. They are both pricks for what it's worth.

SomethingInnocuousForNow · 10/08/2025 19:38

MrsLizzieDarcy · 10/08/2025 15:57

She's a drug addict and has an addiction to surgery. She doesn't have custody of any of her children, Harvey has been shunted off to live with 24/7 carers and she can't even keep her pets alive. She's a disgrace of a human being and a mother. Peter Andre is a decent man who has had a much more successful second marriage with a well educated and intelligent woman. My money is on KP being the issue here....

Harvey is a large adult man with very complex disabilities including violent behaviours, I don't think 'shunted off' is fair :/

Mirabai · 10/08/2025 19:38

The last time I saw KP and PA together was the last series of their reality show and she was bullying him into ground. She’s a really nasty piece of work and totally fucked up.

He’s gone on to marry someone intelligent and sensible and what has she done?

Now she’s trying to muscle in to her DD’s TV show.