To find this cashing in disgusting?

[BitOfFun]

I am at work in the bookshop at the moment and we have just had a delivery of an auto-biography of JADE GOODY ffs, complete with fears about losing her hair etc. It seems to have been ghostwritten by some hack from Heat magazine, but even so, wouldn't you want to spend time quietly with your family and concentrate on getting well after a cancer diagnosis? All the sleb mags are full of her "exclusive" interviews and pics though, and it seems like one huge money-making opportunity. What is this - well you've seen my kebab, now pay to read about my internal organs ???? I think it's in very poor taste, AIBU?

Despicable?

I feel sorry for her. I think she is young and daft and ill.

Don't buy the book.

TBH if knew I was quite likely to die in the near future I would do everything possible to ensure my children were as financially well provided for as possible.

Why is it shameful to talk about your cancer? Is it shameful to have cancer? Should she shut herself away in case she infects someone else or something? Most people with cancer go to work, you know, not sit at home communing with their children. My dentist has cancer, and is at work every day unless the chemo effects are particularly bad - is he 'despicable'?
She needs to earn a living like anyone else, and she has two kids to support. If someone wants to pay to hear about her experiences, what is bad about that?
You may find Jade dim, chavvy, common and not your sort (which is really at the root of most Jade-hate), but it seems utterly idiotic and horrible to accuse someone with cancer of being 'despicable' for talking about it in public!

Agree regarding the money - surely she's just making as much money as she can to ensure that her family will be taken care of when she's sick.

And you can't spend all your time 'fighting the cancer'! How do you think you do that? You don't do your own surgery or administer your own chemo, you know.

I like her (even the distorted view of her)

I feel sorry she has cancer

We live in a shit world that is hard to survive in money wise - good luck to her managing to make a shilling with the cards she was dealt in life

I wouldn't buy the book (not the type of book I read) but hope she makes enough money to pay for any extra help she might need

Erm, I don't think I said she was despicable, or talk about fighting cancer - did someone else? Maybe I'm being a bit snobby though, I will admit to that much. I do understand about the money, but the snobby part of me just finds it a bit tasteless IYSWIM.

mayorquimby said despicable. You just said disgusting...

Ah, but not she, more it tho.

Why 'disgusting'? Is cancer disgusting? Is she exploiting anyone? What exactly is bad about talking about your illness?

Ah, the old label the action not the person thing. I've always been of that.

Still pretty strong language. Out of proportion to the 'offence' IMO.

Is it an autobiography or a biography?
is it a newer edition of her previous book?

btw You ARE being unreasonable to be DISGUSTED! IMO. Why does it disgust you so much?

Making money by being infamous is the only thing she knows what to do,

She has 2 young children and she is probably only thinking about making their future as secure as possible and selling her story will probably bring in quite a bit of money for her.

Good luck to her, yes she's made mistakes but life hasn't exactly been kind to her either.

Pigleto great post my sentiments exactly.

BitofFun, if you had the chance to make a million by talking about your illness are you saying you wouldn't take it?

Hasn't her cancer spread further than they first thought?

i watched her on living tv last night. it was a programme she'd started before her diagnosis and went up to a couple of weeks ago. her book was being written during filming.

she's selling her stories to make money should her boys be left without her. she spent her savings after the big brother debacle when no one wanted to know her.

her job is selling herself.

I can see that some people might find it distasteful (because she's selling her suffering). 'Disgusting' and 'despicable' are waaaay to strong IMO.

Poor lass

i dont see why she shouldnt get money from people who want to spend it

she has the chance to so that

there isnt anything scared about cancer that means she shouldnt talk about it and if people want to read about it or see her talking about it then she can earn money doing that

she makes money from things she does

fair enough

im not interested but if she has the energy still to engage with someone writing a book in her name and quickly get some money in then good for her

wise move and she gets good advice on finances and publicity i think

YABU. I don't see the harm. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

I doubt that her writing even before the cancer consisted of more than a bit of rambling into a tape recorder. The post cancer stuff will have been cobbled together with obscene haste by some hack ghostwriter.

The disgusting, despicable one in this is Max Clifford imo.

I find it interesting how she provokes so much vitroil from people who don't know her.

I feel sad she has cancer. But I don't spend much of my time thinking about her. I don't really have feelings about her one way or the other because I don't know her. But she is a person, a human being, a mum, therefore she deserves the same amount of respect as I would give to someone I see walking to work every day.

i actually meant nothing sacred about cancer

she can't just sit about keeping quiet. her job is to tell all. she has a big mortgage, school fees to pay etc. i doubt she gets much child support off jeff brazier. she has to set her kids up just in case.

YABVVVU agree with others re her making money dfor her family and are you trying to tell me if you could write a book and make thousands of pounds by 'selling' your life you wouldnt bother

plus if her book prompts just one person to have a smear that they otherwise wouldnt have bothered then its worth it.