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AIBU?

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to think it's wrong Katie Price ( who is obsessed with her weight) is a role model to young girls?

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littlestmummystop · 07/10/2009 15:46

I've been watching What Katy Did Next (obv when nothing else is on and I'm knitting etc.)

She is totally obsessed with her weight on the show. She grabs millimetres of her taunt tummy and says: ' I am soo fat!' she talks about having liposuction all over her tiny body. She has v obviously got a body image disorder.

Then you see her going to a book shop to sign copies and 1000s of young girls scream after her while she looks at them with dead-eyes and complains about her hand hurting.

AIBU to think it's irresponsible of TV cameras to show her talking about being 'fat' when she's a role model to young girls?

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shockers · 07/10/2009 15:56

I think "body image disorder" is putting it mildly. She looks really odd now due to all the unnecessary procedures. She was a pretty girl and still could have been ( she's not very old is she?) had she not abused herself to the extent she has.
AND...there are 8 yr olds in my class who know all about her divorce for goodness sake! What are their parents thinking of letting them watch her car-crash of a life??
YANBU!

PuppyMonkey · 07/10/2009 15:59

She's not a good role model as she's mad as a box of frogs and comes over as pretty horrible, imho.

BLEEPyouYOUbleepingBLEEP · 07/10/2009 16:03

I don't like that side of her, but there's another side to her that I admire. She's got balls and has made something of herself, whatever that is lol When I hear her talk I like her, but when I see the way she wants to be portrayed in the media I can't stand her. Weird.

I recon the only way to side step any influence she might have on young girls is not to let them watch her crappy program, and point out other people who you'd perhaps think more appropriate.

pofacedandproud · 07/10/2009 16:05

Body dysmorphia. And a terrible role model for girls. She has turned herself into a blow up doll. I really cannot bear her, and I do try to stick up for women in celebrity culture, but she is a total betrayal of the female cause.

pofacedandproud · 07/10/2009 16:09

I did catch a bit of what 'katie did next' when she was talking to Loaded or Wankers magazine or whatever it's called and she was saying 'I won't do topless because I've got to think of the kids unless it is playboy.' Hilarious. And then she said 'but I could kneel and suck a lollipop and stuff' Yes, way better for your kids that one. Go sister.

witcheseve · 07/10/2009 16:14

I would advise any young girls not to watch this drivel tbh.

Tortington · 07/10/2009 16:17

if my daughter considered her a role model in any sense of the word, i think i would question my own parenting.

i wouldnt have that drivel on in the house for a start.

i have nothing against the woman particularly.

but i do think that if my dd admired her in any way - it would be my parenting choices i would look at first.

also, i would question why this one celeb. hey are all obsessed by their weight.

thesecondcoming · 07/10/2009 16:18

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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 07/10/2009 16:25

I'm pretty sure my daughters have never heard of her, let alone see her as a role model. I did see a bit of What Katie Did Next when channel surfing and was transfixed by the sheer moronic ghastliness of it all - but I can't imagine why anyone would let their children watch it.

overmydeadbody · 07/10/2009 16:27

Who is she?

Lizzylou · 07/10/2009 16:27

There is a photo of her in Heat this week (it was a friends/at the dentists etc etc) of when she was v young and starting out as a moggle, she is completely unrecognisable, her face doesn't even look vaguely similar to it is now.
She was moaning about being fat again as well

overmydeadbody · 07/10/2009 16:31

agree completely with custy

cornsilk · 07/10/2009 16:32

She's not a role model though is she. Who lets young children watch her programme anyway? I wouldn't.

drlove8 · 07/10/2009 16:38

i think she's very odd looking.
i dont like"glamour models"- theres nothing talented about getting your norks out imo.....
But there are a few who have very pretty faces -melinda messenger for example....(she looks like a normal woman, not a barbie/brat doll , obviously not into "glamour" anymore gets her brownie points)
id be horrified if my daughters anounced they wanted to be like kp.
wonder what KP would look like without her make-up and hair extensions.I bet no-one would give her a second glance.

thighsmadeofcheddar · 07/10/2009 16:39

Oh she is so vile.
I was at the hairdressers this morning, looking over OK mag, I can't believe the way she pimps those kids out for money. Just disgusting.

mosschops30 · 07/10/2009 16:40

my dd is 13 and I wouldnt let her watch the programme (I watched it though, you cant help but get into it )

Its all about parenting as usual!

Tortington · 07/10/2009 16:40

take heed someone agreed with me

Lulumama · 07/10/2009 16:40

agree with Custy,

I have a daughter , she's 4, and has no idea who slebs are, and it will stay that way for as long as possible

young girls should not be watching her shows, nor reading the magazines she is in, but that is the parents' issue to deal with

Lizzylou · 07/10/2009 16:42

She was actually very odd looking in the early shot they had in Heat, you wouldn't look twice at her (except for the fact she had nothing but a thong on). She is completely manufactured.
One of those women who I say to DH
"If one of my boys brought a woman like that home.......", but yes, if they did happen upon a Jordan of the future for a girlfriend, I'd feel a right failure.

Pinkjenny · 07/10/2009 16:44

I was horrified when my 10 year old cousin told me that she was watching it with my aunt. I choose my words so carefully with her, she was asking me the other day what I thought of Cheryl Cole, and I found myself formulating a response with a ridiculous amount of care.

I find sleb culture really worrying (but love it myself at 32!). I worry about shows like My Super Sweet 16 on MTV, where they get mahoosive cars etc from their parents, which must just make teenagers of today feel so inadequate.

Thank God dd is only 2.5, although I shudder when I think of her as a teen.

BertieBotts · 07/10/2009 16:50

I saw an interview with her once, and the thing is she is very confident and I can see why teens would look up to that, and expand on it to see her as a role model, she is successful (I know I know, but some young girls do see rich and famous as successful however she got there) and stands up for herself (not always in the best way but some girls will not see this) and is streetwise which is seen as cool and so far removed from the adults we would like our teenage girls to have as role models.

sarah293 · 07/10/2009 17:01

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Lizzylou · 07/10/2009 17:05

It's not just Jordan though is it?

All the Big Brother/Wag wannabes who think that being overly groomed/thin = Getting on TV/Marrying a Footballer.

That Chanelle or whatever who was on BB last year and who, despite having a degree said all she wanted was to be a WAG

pofacedandproud · 07/10/2009 17:07

It does seem to be about getting rich quick rather than having to study for years...

2kidzandi · 07/10/2009 17:15

What bothers me is not so much the programs, as parents should know better. What bothers me is the celeb mags keep on trotting out these pictures of Jordan and others like Posh - who just looks anorexic - and commenting on what the latest designer clothes are they're wearing, men they're going out with, marriage etc, as if they are well and normal, as if that is normal, etc without shaming them.

So girls read the mag and there's jordan with her nineteenth lipo, botocked, breast implant and there's Posh looking so thin her head is wider than her shoulders and it's portrayed as something aspirational and normal. The media is being irresponsible to youngsters. Toxic childhood.

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