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To feel touched by Katie Price's article on Harvey?

415 replies

emkana · 30/06/2011 13:27

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2009642/Katie-Prices-heartfelt-denunciation-Frankie-Boyles-vile-slur-Harvey.html

OP posts:
Itsjustafleshwound · 30/06/2011 14:28

She wants FB to apologise - he won't ...

here

Couldn't give a continental as to why her son is disabled or what sort of mother she is or pass judgement on something I know f*k all about ....

MooMooFarm · 30/06/2011 14:29

Hmm not sure about her 'loving them to bits'. I'm sure she does love them, so maybe it is ignorance that leads her into constantly making such bad decisions in her life (and therefore also in theirs). But then I struggle to understand how she can have the brains to run such a successful 'brand'.

EricNorthmansMistress · 30/06/2011 14:31

A very touching article. I don't doubt that KP means it, though she clearly didn't write it.

OmniaParatus · 30/06/2011 14:33

It was a lovely article and I do feel sorry for the challenges she faces raising her son. But I can't get over the fact that she will use even this most personal aspect of herself, and her son's, lives for publicity. It really does beggar belief. He has no way of consenting to this or understanding what it is about, and she has justified treating him like this to make money on the basis of one (admittedly really vile) joke.

She says she is doing this on behalf of every disabled child so that they are not an object of ridicule- is she donating proceeds from this series to disabled childrens charities then?

If she really wants to help others that is what she should do. And I would be asking Frankie Boyle to match her donation as well.

BalloonSlayer · 30/06/2011 14:35

I liked the article. Of course it was ghost-written, what's the matter with that? I have a degree in English, so I might flatter myself that I am quite good at written English, but I wouldn't attempt to write an article for a daily newspaper without some help and advice.

Lexie1970 · 30/06/2011 14:36

KP does get a lot of stick and if you read the article it does actually state that she knows she courts publicity and she takes what is aimed at her and retaliates as necessary or as she sees fit.

However from the word go she seems to be totally devoted to Harvey and whilst some of what she does with Junior and Princess is questionable Harvey is never part of it.

I read the article earlier today and had complete empathy with her situation and feel that she is totally right to want and expect an apology from C4. When you read things like this it makes you truly grateful to have a child without special needs or disabilities

piprabbit · 30/06/2011 14:38

As far as I can see KP does plenty of work with various charities.

In fact there's been a press announcement today that she is going to be working with Mencap to support their three-year national campaign against disability hate crime.

LolaRennt · 30/06/2011 14:39

KP doesn't even write her own books

OmniaParatus · 30/06/2011 14:43

Well that's good timing then, announcing she is going to work with Mencap when she has a TV programme showcasing her disabled son. If they have been running this campaign for 3 years why is she only getting involved now? I'm sorry, everything she is doing looks very calculated to gain maximum publicity.

AitchTwoOh · 30/06/2011 14:44

the matter, balloonslayer, is that it doesn't remotely tally with what we know of her speech patterns and vocabulary from having seen her on the telly. no one objects to ghosting, unless it is bad ghosting, afaia.

razzlebathbone · 30/06/2011 14:44

I don't believe the article was contributed to by her in any way. She is supremely inarticulate and stupid. From what I've seen of her on her reality shows she displays a startling lack of empathy bordering on sociopathic. Her oxygen is publicity and attention.

The article is manipulative and contrived to suck the sentimentalists in. There is nothing about her I would aspire to as a woman or a mother.

piprabbit · 30/06/2011 14:48

She's so stupid that she's on the Sunday Times rich list. She didn't inherit the money, she earned it herself. I might not like how she earned it, but it certainly doesn't make her stupid.

If she was stupid she would be called Kerry Katona.

AitchTwoOh · 30/06/2011 14:49

ooooh, razzlebathbone. good name.

razzlebathbone · 30/06/2011 14:52

She's stupid. I couldn't give a fuck how much she's earned. I don't equate the two. Or can only poor people be stupid?

LolaRennt · 30/06/2011 14:52

I dont think being overpaid to be on telly and marry people makes you clever piprabbit.

Rockerchic · 30/06/2011 14:59

Again she's using her children to get a spot in the limelight, ruthless woman she is.

notbothered · 30/06/2011 15:03

I feel sorry for that child, but I bet you any money she does not spend a lot of time with him. She has nanny, nursers, her mother and some others to help. Shes away all the time with her new lovers without Harvey... now making big show about him and how hard is to look after him. 1000's people in this country have disabled children, but no money and help like she has. ..and shes still making money out of that...pathetic

pretentiouswasteoftime · 30/06/2011 15:05

She is utterly ruthless BUT if this helps attitudes then I accept her cynical actions.

Self serving and publicity seeking nonetheless. I don't believe for one moment that she wrote the article - she can barely string two words together in any meaningful way.

Fair play to her for achieving so much with so little though.

(you can leave the saucers of milk just here)

silverfrog · 30/06/2011 15:06

If I had the opportunity she has, right now - with all the lead up and background of disability-abuse - I might well take the opportunity to make a documentary about life with dd1, and how she is a human first and foremost, and not deserving of the kind of vile abuse the FB came out with.

I cannot believe that you are all reducing this down to simply 'oh, KP making money again'

I do believe what she says re: how she felt to hear that. as a parent, she had to listen to her son being ridiculed both for his disability, and because she is his mother. she had to hear people laugh when FB said she was fighting to get rid of him - the laugh of recognition that said "shit, yes, who'd want a child like that?" - her child described as un-lovable, and un-wantable, and that's without even going near the rape comments.

try imagining how you would feel in that instance, and thin whether you might want ot try to put the world to rights, if given the opportunity.

I am no fan of hers, by any means. but this whole thing has the ring of truth about it (other than the obvious ghost writing Grin) - and it rings true, because I know (thankfully not to the same vile degree) how it feels to be pitied for "having a child like that". I know how it feels to have people wonder how I manage, and why I don't put dd1 into care/residential school. I know how I felt when, on announcing my second pregnancy, I was told "oh, how lovely. now you can be a proper mum" - this in front of d1 as well, as though the years I had been parenting her did not count (of course they don't, she's not a "real" child, is she? Hmm)

mumblejumble · 30/06/2011 15:11

I am not bothered about whether or not she wrote the article. I also think she is right to publicly speak out about the disgusting attack on her son.
Good for her.
Harvey is a beautiful boy. She obviously loves him and is entitled to defend him.
I would kill anyone who said that my disabled sons were a liability or a burden.
I feel more affinity with her than I ever did with David Cameron that is for sure.

AitchTwoOh · 30/06/2011 15:11

jesus, silverfrog, what an extraordinary thing for someone to say. horrifying.

mauricetinkler · 30/06/2011 15:12

Oh wise up silverfrog, for god's sake.

Rockerchic · 30/06/2011 15:12

I've actually seen her at a dressage event. She's a good horsewoman but with too many hangers on. Yes her kids don't want for anything but how much time does she actually spend with them, especially Harvey.

razzlebathbone · 30/06/2011 15:13

Trying to imagine how I would feel in a situation is of absolutely no use in trying to imagine how Katie Price feels in a situation. I seriously doubt that she feels much at all. If ever a woman was dead on the inside it's her.

bullet234 · 30/06/2011 15:14

"Havent read article but wasn't all the Frankie Boyle stuff, like a YEAR ago"

Yes, it was. Maybe longer. And Boyle has yet to apologise for the disgusting comments he made.