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To despise Kerry Katona so much??

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MissTweed · 04/08/2013 08:36

I don't normally have much of a view on celebs etc (although I actually quite admire Katie Price as she is obviously a very clever lady to make a business and so much money so I reckon the dum blonde thing is just a very very clever act!)

But.... I just read an article in a magazine (Drs surgery waiting room - yes yes I know these magazines print a lot of crap!) about Kerry Katona.

Apparently she is worried how she will cope now that she has been declared bankrupt for the second time.

Apparently (I'll stop saying that now as I'd have to add it to the beginning if every sentence) her out goings are 10k a month!!! That includes a nanny and employing her boyfriend as a driver!!

Now this is where I don't get it...... She was made bankrupt in 2009.... Why the hell is she allowed to spend so much money now?? I'm thinking of the poor companies that got ripped off when her debts got written off last time only for her to continue her lavish lifestyle!
Grrrrrrr rant over!

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Aspiemum2 · 04/08/2013 14:31

No idea SB, it's daft though - I'm always rooting for her to do it.
Every so often she'll appear looking fantastic and like she's turned her life around and then it all goes tits up again and I'm gutted for her.
Come on Kerry!!

neunundneunzigluftballons · 04/08/2013 14:58

I love her she drags and drags herself out of the clutches of doom and picks herself up time and again. I feel extremely sorry for her children but that is entirely down to the shit fathers who have treated their mother so bad. I despise Bryan McFadden he got an absolute roasting on Irish tv on the Late Late Show a few years back which made my day.

SugarPasteGreyhound · 04/08/2013 15:22

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BOF · 04/08/2013 16:13

I despise Robert Mugabe.

I can't get worked up about Kerry Katona, somehow. And far from being light-hearted, the thread title seems pretty unpleasant and mean-spirited to me.

cushtie335 · 04/08/2013 16:19

I can't understand how Brian McFadden gets away with paying her so little. Does he still live in Australia? I thought it was awful when he left Westlife and bleated on about "artistic integrity" and then wrote that shite song about doing things his way and spending quality time with his family and then he upped and left her. Knob.

LeGavrOrf · 04/08/2013 16:28

I used to find her irritating, but now just feel sorry for her.

Parental criticism should be reserved for her disgrace of a mother and her two ex husbands.

She is in a mess and seems to have been given awful advice at every turn. And now has another leech of a boyfriend.

She needs someone to look after her. Instead she has to look after everyone else.

She has had a massive amount of luck and opportunity in her career, but it is not her fault that her home and personal life has been so shambolic that she has been unable to make the most of it. She has been surrounded by people who have deserted her and/or parasites.

SofiaVagueara · 04/08/2013 16:48

She had a massive drug habit and by her own admission hid away in her suite of rooms for months taking drugs with her husband while she left nannies to bring up her children.

She's brought bloke after dodgy bloke into her children's lives, the latest one is a serious criminal having spent six years in Strangeways for blackmail.

She might have a had a bad childhood, but she's doing her damnedest to make sure that her own children's is even shitter.

If she was single I would join in the pity party but the fact is that she is giving her kids a horrible life.

It's not a matter of her 'needing someone to look after her'. She's a mother. She should be looking after her kids and she hasn't. They've gone from one Kerry induced trauma to another.

I feel really sorry for her children.

BOF · 04/08/2013 16:57

I don't think it has to be either/or though, Sofia. Sadly, lots of parents are ill-equipped to properly nurture their children, despite loving them, because they lead chaotic lives which continue the cycle of abuse. With a responsible management team around her and help for her addiction and mental health, she might have made a better life for those children, and I think it's very sad that she hasn't been strong enough to make better decisions. I can't see that publicly hanging or flogging her will do any good at all though.

SofiaVagueara · 04/08/2013 17:35

BOF - she has had an awful lot more help than a mother on a sink estate and I think that an awful lot of such mothers who've also dealt with such dreadful childhoods but haven't had a tiny crumb of the opportunities she's had do a lot better job.

She's had an awful lot of help, sympathy, medical attention, addiction treatment, mental health treatment and therapy (it's all in her books...and Closer, OK!, Pick Me Up etc, etc, etc).

When you're passing it on the next generation I think there comes a point where you have to say 'You are not the victim any longer, you must take responsibility for yourself'. It gets to a certain point and it's just selfishness an self pity as it usually is with addicts. And I think she has passed this point several times.

And that shit Bryan McFadden is no better. He knew she was off her face on drugs but he stayed out in Australia when he should have got on the first plane home and got his children out of there.

forehead · 04/08/2013 18:20

I feel very sorry for KK. I cannot despise someone, who obviously has MH
problems and is trying her best.
I think Brian Mcfadden is an absolute tosser. In fact, he is one of celebrities that i always mention on the mn threads discussing the celebrities that you dislike.
Op, if you want to despise someone, despise him.

TimeofChange · 04/08/2013 18:34

I don't despise KK and I try not to despise anyone.
I wouldn't want to have her life.

SV 'You are not the victim any longer, you must take responsibility for yourself'
Really? Child abuse stays with you forever.
Some people deal with it differently to others.

I don't think any of us are in a postion to judge her - we haven't lived her life.

YoungBritishPissArtist · 04/08/2013 19:01

Out of interest, I just Googled her eldest daughter. Typed in her name and the first thing that came up was 'Molly McFadden fat'

SofiaVagueara · 04/08/2013 19:57

The abuse Kerry Katona was exposed to was her mothers drug addictions and horrible boyfriends.

She's actually exposed her children to abuse just as bad as she suffered herself, if not worse.

TimeofChange · 04/08/2013 20:32

SV: Therefore I would feel pity for her not despise her.

I feel very fortunate that I did not have childhood that KK had.
I hope yours was better than KKs too.

If I'd had a shit childhood I have no idea if I'd have continued the cycle with my DCs or not.

Chunderella · 05/08/2013 09:24

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