to feel sorry for Chantelle?

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I do feel sorry for her after seeing these pics
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2208159/Chantelle-Houghton-stocks-Red-Bull-anticipates-sleepless-nights-ahead-single-mother.html. Not only has her husband gone AWOL but she's doing the shop and looks exhausted.

I saw it and I do feel sorry for her. She might have made some silly mistakes, but she really seemed in a very fragile emotional state.

Singe mother my arse - I see she managed to go shopping without the baby.

Huh?

So shopping without your baby means you can't possibly be a single mother?

Surely anyone marrying Alex should know they are also marrying Roxanne, it wasnt exactly a secret thanks to Katie Price was it.

No, Worra, what I meant is that clearly she has help. Not quite so Poor Little Me as the article tries to make out.

As I said in Chat, I think her issues are related to her heart problems, the fatigue, anxiety and cognitive issues would fit in with Pots.

I hate this attitude that just because a woman has money. is pretty and is in the public eye, she deserves all she gets.

It shows a complete lack of respect for your fellow human being.

If she was NOT rich and not famous, you would probably be all rallying around her.

Money and fame doesn't make you any less likely to choose the wrong partners or get yourself into unhealthy relationships. She clearly didn't want to split up with Alex Reid, but felt for the sake of her baby she should. Why did she split, was he violent? Cheating on her? We have no idea, but she knows.

Any break up is unhappy and distressing.

"Any break up is unhappy and distressing" - true, but there is no need to go and sit on a sofa in a tv studio to broadcast it...

I blame Princess Diana for all this...

I am still mystified that she can afford to buy a new house, has an Audi TT, and all these designer clothes seemingly without a job. All these papped pics and stupid interviews in weekly mags pay that much?

Sign me up!

But that's her job! To stay in the public eye so she can afford her Audi and house and provide for her daughter. As another OP said, what else can she do?
She has carved out a career in the public eye. She needs to maintain it.

If you don't like it or are not interested, don't read about her or watch her on TV, but the posters calling her 'thick as shit' and being nasty is just horrid. She is still a human being who seems to have been thoroughly shat on by the men in her life.

I'm really appalled at the vitriol on this thread. You don't have to read about her, and the name-calling (famewhore in particular) is horrible. I do feel sorry for her, she always seems really nice and I think she has been horribly manipulated by her management team. I'd imagine they're all earning nicely off the back of these papped shots and placed stories.

She's stuck in the z list zone. Not actually talented in any way to be famous, too famous to get a normal job. The only commodity she has is her life so she sells every part of it. Bit like Kerry Katona.

She should have stuck with Preston.

No I don't feel sorry for her either - she looks a damn sight more "put together" than I did for a good few months after I had DD. Well straightened hair, make up, shopping WITHOUT a baby in tow? All things that a lot of people (me included) didn't have the time or childcare to do.

She made her choices like the rest of us, and now has to live with them in significant more comfort than many other single parents, how many people who have no actual "job" can shop for a brand new house when they split up with a partner?

So she looks knackered? So what. Don't all mothers of young babies? I know I did (with far less polish too lol!)

I don't feel sorry for her. Plenty of women with young babies are dumped by bastard good-for-nothings. They don't get their face in the papers or treated as some amazing special case.
I'm sure the "I'm so tired, emotional and exhausted, look at my drama poor me" interview with whatever gossip magazine will pay for it will keep her in more Red Bull than most single Mums can afford.

i feel sorry for her

didn't they both choose to have this baby. she is getting over a relationship and dealing with being a single mum, i doubt it was something she planned in her life. do we only feel sorry for people who never make mistakes she is having a hard time why would i not feel sorry for her

I feel sorry for her, just as I would for anyone in the same situation. She is in the papers because she's being hounded by journalists. She sells newspapers. If she didn't she wouldn't be in them.

I hope she's getting support from family and friends. Of course not having to worry about money is an advantage, but it's still bloody hard having to bring up your first baby alone.

I really feel for her and find the nastiness in this thread astounding and very disappointing. This isn't a misery competition. Have a little compassion guys!

She came home one day to find Alex dressed as Roxanne, wanking like a demented chimp

Despite this being the kind of hideous image that will never leave a dark corner of my brain it is possibly the funniest thing I've ever read

i find the nastiness on the thread and name calling horrible too. being a celeb pays well people get caught up in it and it becomes part of their life. no matter how much money she may have that does not take away the feelings of being alone and heartbroken having money just makes other areas of your life less stressful

Because she has money, she doesn't deserve any sympathy for being treated badly?

I never gave her a thought - I don't really do celeb stuff but I caught 10 mins of This Morning (by mistake!) and saw a bit of her interview and I am ashamed to say I got a bit teary

My youngest child was 7mths old when my ex walked out - I could see how much she was struggling to get her head round it all and how sad she was and I related

so Yes I do feel sorry for her

I am a single mum to 3 and I work and have nights out and everything - STILL a single mother though

WRT her affording her house etc, she tweeted about how she rents her house, so she hasn't been out buying a brand new house at all!

She said Alex see's Dolly frequently, when she was on TV, because he is the baby's father, you know the other parent, so that obviously means Chantelle has some time to nip to the shop or whatever. No doubt her mum or friends help her out too.

Some of you have got your judgy knickers so far up your arses they are interfering with the parts of your brains that control empathy and compassion![hhmm]

She's made a whole career of being a victim - look at me, I've been dumped. Look at me, I've been dumped again. Look at me, I'm left holding the baby. She has chosen to parade herself and her situation on the television and in the media for cash.

I would have far more respect for her if she said "well fuck him, I'm a strong woman and I don't need him, look at what I can do".

This self-imposed victimisation doesn't help women and certainly doesn't give young girls any level of aspiration.

and neither does it help women to call them names when they are obviously hurting and struggling

no one needs to put up a front to gain respect it fools no one

She is in the papers because she's being hounded by journalists.
The photos are staged, she tips them off. There's not much hounding going on.

who the heck is she? never heard of her.