Katie Price & victim blaming

[AtlasNeverShrugged]

Katie Price has been assaulted and has a "split eye".

However, the comments on Twitter are horrendous:

twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1429804052754440199

So many people calling her names, saying she probably deserved it because she's gobby etc.

Another one here who secretly admires her.

She's one of those people that newspapers and so on love to hate and report her misfortunes with what seems like glee sometimes. But she just keeps trucking on and obviously really loves her kids. I don't know enough about her relationships really but she is probably richer and definitely more attractive and has a better career than all of them except maybe PA. I know that's not everything but it does seem a bit like a pattern and like she doesn't appreciate her worth as a person in her own right.

I hope she's ok and I hope that whoever did this to her is convicted.

Not surprising, the creeps that crawl out online are terrifying.

Poor Katie. I have felt sorry for her, her life just seems so chaotic and she seems a very unhappy person. I hope in the future she finds some peace and I hope this man has charges pressed against him.

I like her and I find it so sad that she seems to be in a spiral of excessive plastic surgery and getting involved with men who don’t care about her. IIMO, the surgery’s like a form of self-harm at this point. ☹️ I wish her family could convince her to get help and she could realise that she doesn’t need a man to be happy and successful.

I watched Katie on Celebrity Masterchef last night. I thought she seemed very likeable.

Im not old enough to be their mothers but i feel maternal towards her and towards kk.
Stay away from men :-/

Unsurprising sadly- how much support has she had for raising a disabled child: blamed for his condition, Heat magazine created a sticker mocking him as a child, frankie Boyle mocked him- contemptible but all seen as “ok” to the masses because of who his mother is.

@daisychain01

If she posted an anonymous thread on MNet, saying she'd been assaulted, called the police and gone to the hospital, posters would be giving her encouragement. Mention that it's Katie Price and suddenly this battered woman must somehow be to blame

She wouldn't listen though. She'd be one of those posters who'd suck hours days and weeks of people's lives, 17 pages of encouragement and she'd still ignore all the good advice. She's not an easy "fix". God alone knows what her childhood must have been like, but something went badly wrong somewhere along the line.

I think she was raped as a child? Could be wrong

I worry for her really. I’ve see her from when she was Jordan to now. She’s clearly very troubled. I hope she will be ok. Yes she does need to be on her own for a bit, but clearly she can’t. I don’t know if she has any good friends she can call on for a hug and a chat. I hope she does.

She was, aged 7 and then sexually assaulted aged 12.

KP is a car crash, going from one disaster to another. Those poor kids. She should remain single and work on healing herself not subjecting her kids to another man/failed relationship/weirdo/ future therapy sessions.

Sadly one gets the impression that given her 'career' involves maintaining a presence in the glossy mags and tabloid gossip pages she can't afford to not be in a relationship no matter how ill suited it may be. Weddings, divorces, more plastic surgery, her relationship struggles are all monetised. I think she needs to step back permanently from the limelight.

Yes, if she decided to monetise her psychotherapy there would still be mileage there but she might stop piling more new traumas on her old traumas.

To be honest, any young woman whose parents or mother + step father viewed being a topless model as a good direction to go in, you know that she didnt have a great childhood.

Whatever you think of her, no-one deserves that.

Interesting that Ant McPartlin gets slated on Mumsnet for being a convicted drink driver but not Katie Price who was convicted of being drunk in charge of a vehicle (and almost certainly was driving it). She was laughing as she came out of court. Yet people are talking about liking her and admiring her.

I think she's a disgrace. No humility about being bankrupt and owing money but continues to live a flash lifestyle.

However absolutely no-one deserves to be assaulted and I feel terribly sorry for her in this situation.

@Odisia

Interesting that Ant McPartlin gets slated on Mumsnet for being a convicted drink driver but not Katie Price who was convicted of being drunk in charge of a vehicle (and almost certainly was driving it). She was laughing as she came out of court. Yet people are talking about liking her and admiring her.

I think she's a disgrace. No humility about being bankrupt and owing money but continues to live a flash lifestyle.

However absolutely no-one deserves to be assaulted and I feel terribly sorry for her in this situation.

Because life isn’t black and white- it’s very obvious that every part of Katie’s life is a car crash/ tragic - a disabled son, a terminally ill mother, cheated on twice by her cross dressing ex, weirdo third husband- drink driving was a result of all this- not excusing but she needs major help

Onlyfoolsnmothers I disagree. If drink driving is a result of her chaotic lifestyle she should seek help or those around her should help her in doing so. She is a mother of young children. Ultimately she has to take responsibility for making better choices.

I am still sorry for her in this situation though.

Poor Katie. She is so vulnerable. She sticks by her kids and despite all the drama I think she has a heart of gold. She has just been dealt a shit deal in life and the money and fame go not make up for it in any way.

How sad yet telling it is, that even on a thread written in support of a woman who has been assaulted to the point of needing hospital treatment, people still feel it's appropriate to speak negatively about her.

I just hope she is ok. In my opinion Peter Andre seemed a decent bloke and I think she made a mistake ending things with him. Im not blaming Miss Price for anything, but she seems to have a chaotic lifestyle and perhaps would benefit from counselling of some kind. I didn't know about her Mum and they are very close, thats very sad. I don't go near Twitter, left it years ago. Twitter has some very odd and downright nasty people on it. Not for me. I hope Miss Price gets some support.

in my opinion Peter Andre seemed a decent bloke I think he seems like an ass hole. Stayed in LA when his wife was desperately unhappy, chose his management over his wife, doesn’t really see Harvey, and married a girl young enough to be his daughter. I don’t buy the nice guy act!

Poor Katie she does not deserve this. No one deserves this but I think she is a nice person.

I hope she does get the help she needs. She has a lot of past trauma. But she has always done right by her kids. How many of those mocking her could care for a child with the needs Harvey as as well as she has.