To think someone should scoop Katie price up to keep her safe

[lunkitsmum]

In the middle of the media storm about poor Caroline Flack and Megan Markle. I can't help thinking they didn't have anywhere near the hounding and pounding down that Katie Price has had consistently and for years... Obviously don't know her from Adam but as 1 human seeing another being relentlessly bullied wonder if there shouldn't be some sort of legal injunction to stop the tabloid attacks on her?

@angelsSins

Very well put. You are absolutely right.
It's the same story for so many women in history - Anna Nicole Smith springs to mind.

Of course she should. But it won't happen sadly.
And this "Katie Price needing the press to survive is like an alchoholic needing drink".

If you watch her show, both her ex Kieran & the on & off current guy have stepped in to help , by sorting her kitchen & bedrooms when her builder left her in the lurch . So she has practical & emotional support & Pete has the kids (Harvey is in residential now). She's not been disgraced & she's bounced back from all sorts before, so I hope she'll do so again. She's been back in the Priory too which should help. I do feel those around or managing Caroline Flack should have considered suggesting that , as she'd obv been struggling since as far back as Strictly & this was the thing that put her over the edge. Maybe they all felt it wasn't their place tho or that she wasn't that bad.

Whilst I don’t condone the way the media treats many celebrities, ultimately they only do so because the public happily devours this sort of coverage. All of these people wringing their hands over Caroline Flack but continuing to buy the tabloids and the gossip magazines need to take a long, hard look at themselves.

She didn’t write any of her books - they were ghost written. I don’t think she pretended otherwise. As for her riding in the Olympics, she was rich enough to buy EXTREMELY talented schoolmaster horses to compete on, who made her look like a skilled rider to the uninitiated but no way was she ever going to ride at the Olympics 😂

*I do think Katie Price is a very good example of how the patriarchy treats women.

She started her fame as a page 3 model in The Sun, something a lot of men wanted to keep, they said it was harmless fun. She then very publicly got a huge boob job for free and got extra work from it, all encouraged by men of course, they were the ones who funded her career back then, they were her fans.

Then, as she gets a little older, they take great pleasure in ripping her apart, calling her a slag, telling her she’s a bad mum or trash etc.

The patriarchy supported and encouraged her to become this person, and then took aim at the idol they’d created.

The same has happened to other women too of course, and it seems to happen more and more.*

Nail, hit, head.

Build them up and knock them down.

She didn’t write any of her books - they were ghost written. I don’t think she pretended otherwise. As for her riding in the Olympics, she was rich enough to buy EXTREMELY talented schoolmaster horses to compete on, who made her look like a skilled rider to the uninitiated but no way was she ever going to ride at the Olympics

I just want to clarify, although I’m quoting you, I’m not aiming this at you because I don’t know your opinions on this, so hear me out!

It seems to me that if a woman becomes a glamour model or something along those lines, people assume it’s all she is. For example, I was watching Hunted the other night, and they had a couple on there who looked pretty glamours. There was an image of them both together on a night out. The Hunters smirked at her and said how they doubt she’d enjoy camping etc. Now he was just as groomed in his own way, but she had a very revealing dress on, and she was judged on it. Why is that? Women aren’t one dimensional objects, we can be good and bad at many things.

As it turned out, she seemed to have far more sense than he did, for him it seemed to be all about his ego, and these are professionals, people who have been high up in their career and should know better, but still judged her from a photo or two.

Katie Price may have never been Olympics quality, but a huge number of horse riders that are in the olympics are wealthy, and have top bread horses, so I’m not sure why it’s fair to sneer at Katie when she’s done just the same as them?

I’m not a fan of her, I don’t like women encouraging objectification, but I’m not going to trash her for being human either.

She has just posted on Instagram that she is taking a break from "the media world". Seems she is upset about CF.

Nothing against her usually, but thought it was a bit unsettling that when yet another of her animals got killed on the road the other day she got her nails done, then went out drinking, eating and doing karaoke a few hours later. Next day she was more bothered about Valentine's Day and posting what flowers she'd got. Weird that she's upset about someone who is not her friend, but not too bothered about the death of a family pet.

She gets a hard time in the press, but her life is just nuts and she should try to keep a low profile. Wonder how long she will last away from Instagram!

Katie Price has always been authentic though. She hasn’t pretended to be a perfect mum or wife - she just says she loves her kids. She doesn’t worry about a perfect body - she pays for whatever look she wants at the tine.
She uses drink,drugs and men as crutches which all work short term. It will be those that kill her most likely than an attempt herself. She’s less bothered about what random people think of her. She’s been done for drink driving, no license, bankruptcies etc. And goes on.

Caroline may have been a presenter but was better known for her young boyfriends. She had loads of friends, seemed genuinely loved. Reconciling her two worlds was too much it would seem.

Not sure if be kind should be the message or be yourself. Especially as a woman.

I can't comment on the Olympics but Katie has been very open about the fact that her books are ghostwritten.

17.8 people on average committed suicide in the UK last year, almost all of them had had no interaction with the press. It's very convenient for the government, that that's the focus and not the huge cuts to public services, benefits and mental health services all of which play more of a role in the mental well being than the media for most people. Did the press make things worse for CF undoubtedly, but that's one case, let's not focus on the trees and miss the woods.

A publisher friend told me Kp is on the sun's paper payroll and gets a weekly salary so this explains her constant spending and holidays etc...every day the sun has some sort of story about her....they may drop her when we are tired of the car crash antics.,..not sure there is much left to reveal about her... stories are already desperate and repeated...dirty house etc etc.

You're right OP. I've been guilty of judging KP as a mother here in the past.
@LionelRitchieStoleMyNotebook Very true the austerity cuts in Ireland and the UK is a shambles years now, long MH waiting lists, less police on the street, homelessness, crime through the roof. It is a disgrace.

Katie Price wrote a couple of novels. One is called Crystal and it's really good. I was pleasantly surprised by it and it made more sense and actually followed a proper plot line unlike a lot of the shit around these days with disappointing endings

Katie Price wouldn’t exist without silly people googling her, watching her, trolling her or following her.
If everyone just stopped googling her or reading about her , she’d have no audience.
She spends her whole life in the media’s eye because she wants to be in the media’s eye.
YABU.

All those posters saying KP wants press intrusion at the moment, how do you know? How do you know that she sets up pap shots? Could it be the media have said that and you don't, in fact, know at all?

This lady has a disabled son, a terminally ill mother, has gone bankrupt, has sought treatment for drug issues, and has been cheated on and treated badly by a fair few men. All that, she has said herself.

Imagine all that AND the press tearing you down AND some of the public believing the press and believing that she brought it all on herself, when none of us have a clue what the facts are.

The cruel comments on this thread, set up to voice worries about KP, say everything about those posting and NOTHING about Katie Price.

It’s often missed that it’s only the female celebrities who get trashed like this.

Pure misogyny.

None of the celebrities are talentless, they're all very accomplished in their chosen field most of what we term as “celebrity” these days are talentless.

Most are just members of the public who happened to become contestants on some reality tv show and from the instant they appear on television they’re “a celebrity.” Except they have been sold this idea that living a normal life and holding down a normal job is worthless and that in order to succeed in life you have to be plastered all over social media and the tabloids.

Except that so often backfires because the instant you put a foot wrong both the media and the instagram-following public will be there to comment on it.

Katie Hopkins, apprentice contestant
Kate Ferdinand, The only way is Essex
Big brother/love island/made in Chelsea/gogglebox have been churning out wannabe fame seekers for years and now they all claim their celebrity status.

And KP started as a model but in order to maintain her celebrity status she went down the same route and created a reality tv show about her own life.

It comes to something when Kate Ferdinand stated that in order to focus on her marriage and step children she’d taken time off work. It says a lot about society when being on The only way is. Essex is considered to be a job.

Very good opening post. I agree.

The 17.8 suicides last year was per day fwiw

Most reality stars rely on paid newspaper magazine and TV deals for their income. So buying a new house, a wedding etc are events that they are all too happy to get filmed, media coverage to help pay for and stay relevant. In this type of situation you cannot then expect the media to turn a bling eye to any 'negative' behaviour and have to accept that just as they will write an article on you attending so and so's wedding looking fabulous they will do one of you drunk, throwing up in the street after a nights indulgence. Not every article will be fawning over you.

Caroline Flack was not a reality star she was a presenter who made her money by hosting shows. Unfortunately the media did focus on her private life heavily and that she often dated good looking younger men. The same scrutiny is not aimed at men like Leo DiCaprio (has he ever dated a woman his own age?) Or Mick Jagger. As a young, single woman she got a lot of press attention and a lot of it was negative eg. callling her prince Harry's bit of rough was harsh.

I do think Katie Price is on a downward trend and hope that she has people around her who will step in.

@YappityYapYap she didn’t write them.

i did say that KP doesn't have talent. its a fact that she does not have that talent that gets you on. like being an actor/painter/singer and so on. she is famous for being famous. and imo that is the problem with being a celebrity these days. people go on a reality show, get a lot of attention and think they are stars and they are for a while till the next one comes along.
please name the first winner of the voice? name other winners?
thats just one programme.
KP has done well she isn't thick and imo is a clever business women.but talented?

While I don't agree with the way the press treat some people, to me, Caroline Flack and Katie Price can't really be compared.

Caroline Flack was a TV presenter. That was her job, which she was good at and earned her living from. Although a certain amount of media attention is to be expected when you are in that sort of profession, she didn't want/need/deserve what the press did to her.

Katie price was, of course, originally a glamour model whose income relied on being in the newspaper. Without that, she wouldn't have become known. Once she was no longer modelling, she still needed media attention to maintain income. She could probably have lived fairly quietly with her children but she seems to go out of her way to get media attention.