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AIBU?

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to think katie price is a really nice person and a brilliant mum

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butterfly2015 · 13/03/2015 10:47

I've just watched her on this morning with Harvey and my heart melted. She's slagged off so often but she's got such an amazing bond with Harvey and he's such a sweetie.

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happybubblebrain · 13/03/2015 11:54

I didn't see her on This Morning but I have met her briefly. She seemed lovely and said really nice things to my daugther and smiled at her alot. I could tell she really loves children. She was also much prettier and more natural looking in real life. I think she has said and done silly things in the past, but that doesn't stop her being a nice person.

IreneA78 · 13/03/2015 11:54

I don't know her personally so couldn't judge either way, but I think most people could put on a good show for a few minute interview

SunshineAndShadows · 13/03/2015 11:58

I think she's an excellent self publicist and very media savvy. I'm sure you saw what she wanted you to see this morning.
Whether she's a nice person or providing a stable lifestyle and good role modelling for her kids is a different matter. Doesn't she keep leaving them to do various seen TV stints so she can talk about her sex life with the nation

Endler32 · 13/03/2015 12:03

I watched TM, Harvey has a great bond with his mum, this shows what a great job she has done with him, she obviously gets a lot of support from her mum too ( which is great ), looking after a child with complex needs is not easy, I can sympathise with the food issues and the ASD, it's not easy . She's lucky to have such great support from her family.

Harvey is such a lovely lad, was great to see them together on TV, shows that Katie is a mum just like the rest of us, I take my hat off to her managing to be a mum to Harvey and work to support her children.

KingJoffreyFanciesDarylDixon · 13/03/2015 12:07

Nah.

Her children are tools for her to get interviews and cash.

The good celebrity parents are the ones who's children we never see.

GratefulHead · 13/03/2015 12:14

YABU

The only stable thing those kids have in their lives is money. It buys carers, keeps relatives compliant and ensures they want for nothing materially.

On a personal level it's chaotic. She is a fantastic Mum to Harvey but compared with his waster of a Dad that's not overly hard.

She is also utterly money orientated.....if it doesn't pay she won't do it. Fair enough but expect to be judged accordingly.

She has a severely disabled child and could speak up so much for other parents in the same boat but chooses not to and even infers they Re complaining about nothing. Nope...can't stand the woman.

Samcro · 13/03/2015 12:15

she doesnt have to speak up for anyone

mumofthemonsters808 · 13/03/2015 12:17

I'm always uncomfortable, when someone declares another woman is a good Mum. What is the criteria that we need to meet to gain this form of approval ?. Speaking about your children fondly obviously gives merit points and being seen with your children helps to create the image that they are attached to your hip. What other box needs ticking for us to meet this form of validation?.
Regarding KP and I did not see the show, for me the most important factor that makes her life a damn sight easier as a Mother and Im still unsure about the Good Mother description, is her wealth, which enables her to access unlimited help and support.
This post has actually got me thinking about who else in the celebrity world would be defined as a "Good Mother" and who would meet the other end of the spectrum ? and why do we do this ?, because we are all parents we become judge and jury. Anyway I'm going to clean the bathroom and mull this over.

HeisenbergsBlueMeth · 13/03/2015 12:19

He's her son. Is it noteworthy that they have a 'bond' ?

This.

mugglewompster · 13/03/2015 12:19

Urm??? Take away the celeb crap and imagine your neighbor behaving like her with public slanging matches, dubious relationships, dressing like a porn star, talking publicly and frequently about partners sexual attributes, appetites, failures on, for example, facebook and tell us you wouldn't judge her differently as a person and a mother.

Fairylea · 13/03/2015 12:20

She seems lovely from what I see of her in the media.

She is a good business woman whatever way you look at it. She knows how to make money and how to play the media. I'm not sure how much of the whole thing is an act but she seems to love her kids and always puts them first so good luck to her. If I could I'd do the same thing. ..! :)

Runningupthathill82 · 13/03/2015 12:21

I don't know her so don't know if she's a nice person, good mum or whatever.

But what I do know is that it can't have been easy to be so young, give birth to a baby with very complex needs, and be effectively abandoned by the father of said child.

So for that alone I think she deserves credit.

mugglewompster · 13/03/2015 12:22

Also agree having a bond with and loving your child is the very minimum required of a parent.

rebelfor · 13/03/2015 12:23

No, I don't believe she is a really nice person. A nice person wouldn't be calling someone an elephant and having her 5 year old repeat it as the person in question is eating a meal with company.

I've also not witnessed her away from the cameras with her children, so can't say she's a brilliant mum, either.

ssd · 13/03/2015 12:24

I like her too.

mugglewompster · 13/03/2015 12:25

Having been negative, I should say I don't think she's a bad person and have no strong feeling either way but idolising her a 'really nice person' and a 'brilliant mum' is not my immediate reaction.

Depends what you think is brilliant, I suppose. Can think of some people who are (not myself!).

JoanHicksonMIfive · 13/03/2015 12:26

Did she call you an Elephant?

Chippednailvarnish · 13/03/2015 12:29

You forgot that Peter Andre also really loves his kids...

Samcro · 13/03/2015 12:30

REALLY i never knew that

rebelfor · 13/03/2015 12:31

She didn't call me an elephant, no .

Her (large) ex manager Claire, she was eating a meal with Pete and others and Junior said in front of everyone ''Mummy says you look like an elephant......''

It was on Pete's ITV show

Samcro · 13/03/2015 12:32

sorry but kids say stuff like that.
kids repeat stuff all the time.

JoanHicksonMIfive · 13/03/2015 12:33

Not good. I am sure that was when KP was blaming Claire for breaking up her family/marriage.

rebelfor · 13/03/2015 12:35

Yes, they'll repeat it if they've been told that. I wouldn't discuss things like that with my children if I'd fallen out with someone, on account of not being 12.

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butterfly2015 · 13/03/2015 12:36

Peter Andre is constantly parading the kids on tv. I rarely see Katie with them and so it was intriguing to see her with Harvey today. I've not seen photos of her youngest and rarely see any of Harvey unless it's a papped shot at the airport. I see p l entry of the ones she had with Peter though. I think she tries to keep them out of the limelight as much as possible.

I certainly don't idolize her as was suggested. I really didn't think much of her but showing her with her son, who is a sweetheart, showed a side that's not often shown to the public. And it made me think better of her.

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306235388 · 13/03/2015 12:51

I don't know if she's a good mum or a nice person but I am at the posters friend from the RNIB who obviously discussing private information. At the charities I have worked at we would've been hung, drawn and quartered for disclosing that kind of information. Awful. She's not duty bound to do charity work.

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