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to think katie price wouldn't know what a hard days work is.

52 replies

carriedababi · 12/10/2011 21:25

here

sorry but selling every detail of your life[weddings births, more silly weddings!] to magazines is not work

nor isbeing a brand, basically a company making various prioducts that you just put your brand to.

don't get me wrong, i don't actually mind the girl, i certainly am not what she would call a hater.
just please don't preach about how hard you work!
its a joke

OP posts:
Sleepyspaniel · 12/10/2011 22:48

I do think she works hard. She looks to have an exhausting schedule even if she does get driven to events, she is probably using the travelling time to make/take phone calls, business decisions etc. She has many different pies so even if individually, they don't seem much, collectively they must all require quite a lot of time and attention. She has a lot of maintenance work to keep up the looks, I mean I find it hard to put fake tan on once every 3 weeks let alone extensions/nails/tan/full on makeup etc etc.

I would equate her work to that of a business executive, which is essentially what she is. No, it's not down the mines but then jobs don't need to be physically demanding to be hard these days. Plus, she constantly has to be dreaming up new money making schemes or else she won't continue to make money.

And she is a single mum of three children including a special needs child.

Do I like her? No, not all the time. Do I think she works hard? Definitely.

ChickenLickn · 12/10/2011 23:21

are you joking? On balance, its probably you who doesnt know what a hard days work is.

As Sleepyspaniel said.

LynetteScavo · 12/10/2011 23:31

I don't particularly like KP,but one thing she isn't is work shy.

Salmotrutta · 12/10/2011 23:36

I can only echo what others have said. I am no fan of Katie Price either but I do think she's a canny businesswoman (or has very good agents) who works hard.
I don't believe there is any celebrity - Z list or A list who doesn't have to put in a lot of grind to keep the money coming in until they may, just may, have earned enough to sit back and retire.
I can't stand Bruce Forsyth (who will attend the opening of an envelope) but I do believe he is a hard worker. Like-wise with someone like Barbara Streisand - mega rich and no doubt has assistants/servants/chauffeurs etc. but she has a reputation as a workhorse and perfectionist.

... Now, I know Katie hasn't "entertained" Hmm us for 70 years like Brucie and doesn't possess talent or anything, like Barbara, but I do believe she works hard. Just not in a way that you or I might find laudable.

FrightNight · 12/10/2011 23:39

The point is she's created a product that's found a market, so whether that's blokes that read the current bun or their other halves that suck up OK, Heat, her stupid programmes she exploits that market to the max.

I don't care for her views, methods or her product in the same way I don't like burger king or kebabs but lots do and all the time they pay to feed the beast Katie will prosper. But let's keep her in context and never confuse her with a positive role model for our DDs.

discobeaver · 13/10/2011 03:28

I just found out she is part mythical creature; I like her even more!
In her address to the Oxford Union she said her grandmother was "a topless mermaid" :)

savoycabbage · 13/10/2011 03:56

I can't say I'm a fan but I think she works very hard. She has made herself into someone who is far more than a glamour model. There are loads of page three girls out there and she saw that that wasn't going to last forever. I admire her for that.

SeoraeMaeul · 13/10/2011 04:24

I actual know a Z list celeb and yes you can make decent money for little effort - by this I mean you can make just above average office worker pay by showing up at openings, staging some pap shots and selling a few stories.
But if you're going to make millions like KP you have to work hard and exploit the market like any successful business. Like a lot of other posters - I don't like what she does or represents but she is bloody good at it!
Loved the analogy someone used with Burger King! Very good comparison Grin

HengshanRoad · 13/10/2011 05:25

She's a mealy-mouthed, unintelligent, tawdry specimen with zero business acumen.

weevilswobble · 13/10/2011 05:42

I dont like her, but shes made her own money, not inherited it or married it. As others have said, also a single mum of three, one of them a huge job in itself. Yes she knows a tough day and shes worked, using your brain and being cunning is as hard as coal mining.
OP, what do you do?

BaronessOrczy · 13/10/2011 06:37

I can't say I like her or agree with her approach to life but I do admire her. She's got guts, I suspect she's very astute business-wise, and I think she does work hard. Really hard. It's not at something I would want to do, but fair play to her, she's got fingers in many money making pies. At least she's out there earning her cash not expecting Dwight Yorke or Peter Andre to pay for her lifestyle.

callmemrs · 13/10/2011 06:54

Agree.
I don't like the woman or what she stands for but I do' admire her work ethic. Plenty of women would rather sit back and live a WAG lifestyle. She could live off the earnings of the fathers of her kids quite easily but she chooses to pay her own way instead. I admire the fact that she doesn't believe girls and women should get pregnant and expect to be 'kept' by a man thereafter. She's gutsy and feisty and doesn't believe that having 3 children including a disabled one, should stop you getting on with life. And yes, she DOES have a small army of Helpers but she pays for them - and I bet shes the sort of person who would be getting out there and doing, even if she were a single mum of 3 on a low income- because its not all about the money, it's a mindset too.
Compare with someone like Kerry katona who has managed to squander a fortune on drugs and partying, has lost contracts which would earn her good money, is bankrupt and relies on her agent to house her and pay her kids school fees to try to keep her hanging in there long enough to make some sort of desperate comeback.... I know Which one I have more respect for

AisforAcorn · 13/10/2011 07:33

I'm really really not a fan of hers but I do have to disagree with you. I think she works bloody hard, albeit in a soul destroying way. She is a very good businesswoman.

Also as a single mum of one I have to give her my respect for managing her 3 children by herself. Yes, i'm sure she has nannys and cleaners but it is still a hard job.

halcyondays · 13/10/2011 07:41

I don't think she would have made her fortune if she had zero business acumen. She must work very hard to keep herself in the public eye, promoting her new products and making sure she gets into papers and magazines. If anything she must be something of a workaholic, after all she doesn't need the money now, she could sit back and take it easy. While looking after three children, one with a disability is never easy, I wouldn't say she does it by herself. She has joint custody with PA and clearly has a huge amount if help from babies and her mums and sister.

discobeaver · 13/10/2011 07:49

Yes, zero business acumen. That's why she's a massive brand with a multiple million pound fortune. I wish I had zero business sense.

discobeaver · 13/10/2011 07:53

Anyway, everyone knows mermaids are great in business.
They know when something smells fishy, and they won't shell out for much.

FagAshLill · 13/10/2011 07:59

You can say what you want about her but we all have to admit, she is one hell of a business woman, knows what she wants and gets it, she's got drive and that is a lot more than what we normally see on TV reality shows.

BrandyAlexander · 13/10/2011 09:09

YABU. Katie Price may be totally vacuous and with many ishoooos but she clearly works damn hard. I am gobsmacked that anyone would even question it.

porcamiseria · 13/10/2011 09:11

of course she works hard you muppet, I dont like her but she has grafted to make millions

wicketkeeper · 13/10/2011 09:17

AND, unless she changes her image considerably, she only has a few years left in which to make money based on her looks. Personally I think she's in great danger of lingering too long. I would love to see her re-invent herself as a smart sophisticated business woman - and I actually think she could make the change. Lose the boobs, lose the slap, use the brain.

DrinkYourWeakLemonDrinkNow · 13/10/2011 09:21

I too think it looks hard work being KP.

It's funny because I assumed she'd donned the Katie Price hat to escape the rigours of the Jordan persona. Now being Katie Price seems to have become just as all consuming, if not more so.

I'm not sure whether I think self promotion is an especially worthy career, lucrative maybe, but it seems rather lacking in substance. Nevertheless it does seem relentless and must mess badly with your head because you are always having to up the ante for media attention.

Peachy · 13/10/2011 09:21

Ah that article annoyed me: nobody has an excuse not to work

Er dear Katie I have a disabled child, you do too- surely they have a pretty decent excuse?

And frankly no matter what political stance you have, someone trying hard but who has not managed to get a job has a pretty good excuse. Like the vast numbers of younger people stick on benefits.

Yes there are sometimes solutions- DH and I are both trying to build businesses to cope with caring duties / a redundancy but we are lucky to have decent educations and qualifications: it seems indisputable that she works hard, that would appear obvious and good on her, but there are close to two million people is it who'd quite like the chance of a job.

And I do worry about what would happen to a lot of services if the rules about making people do work for benefits ever actually come in properly given how much they rely on voluntary work: as an ex volunteer manager I know we oculd not have just taken people on the Govt scheme in our field (we trained them and placed them with vulnerable people) but many of out volunteers were unemployed or single mums.

CogitoErgoSometimes · 13/10/2011 09:27

YABU... There's far too much inverted snobbery around that says anyone that doesn't do traditional manual labour isn't hard-working. There's a great list of things that apparently aren't 'proper jobs'... banking being the favourite 'pretend job' at the moment. For Price to be so successful in the nasty, chew 'em up and spit 'em out world of media and modelling, she must not only work hard but have a good head for business at the same time. Fair play to her.

Hardgoing · 13/10/2011 09:33

If it was all so easy and could just be had by sitting on your arse all day and flicking your hair, every moderately pretty girl would be as rich as Katie Price. They are not. You don't earn that much, have that many products and live that lifestyle without having worked hard. You may not admire what she's achieved but why would you want to deny that she personally has achieved it?

havinhoops1974 · 13/10/2011 10:03

She's a fantastic buisnesswoman , thats a sure thing
but its an undestatement that she's not paragon of motherly integrity she lecture people on what she knows about. preaching to the far better converted.

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