Katie Price: living with the Dominator?

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I have always felt that Katie Price has been horribly abused by the media- most recently by their exploiting what look like real mental health struggles & body dysmorphia for prurient clicks.Treated as a blow up doll not a feeling & suffering human.

And now over the past few days I have been horrified to read accounts of the way Peter Andre allegedly behaved to her in their marriage- & of what look like really disturbing patterns of behaviour & remarks.

I should say that I have never watched any of their reality TV show- but are these reports accurate? I mean, appalling remarks such as ‘stuck up beaver’? Imitating her voice? Accusations of sexual promiscuity? The sexualised abuse terms?

Or is this just another media pile on?

I am just so horrified, if this is true, that a woman could be treated this way in full view of the world- actually recorded & shown to the public.

I spent years ‘living with the Dominator’ (Freedom Programme) & the reports - which I do appreciate may not be true, the media is not reliable!- have horrified me. So much misery is inflicted on women behind closed doors! And we always blame ourselves (‘I’m so unreasonable’; ‘he has a lot to put up with’) and excuse the angry man shouting abuse in our faces.

If the reports are true, I hope Katie Price has someone in her life who can help her see this was not her fault- and who can maybe introduce her to systemic analysis of the ways in which society & men treat women, & what they might mean in her case. I feel so sorry for her - and angry for what this potentially says about how women are treated.

Woman are always used as entertainment and this is a vulnerable woman who is easy to exploit because she doesn’t really know she’s being exploited and the more tragedy she goes through the more entertaining she becomes, like a soap, it makes people feel better about themselves and their own lives.

I don't know about her and Peter Andre, but if anyone's exploiting her its herself.
Nobody posts her images and stories on Instagram except her.
She's currently on (or at least advertsing) a "tell all" talking tour with Kerry Katona.
OK, maybe she has a manager that set that up, but she certainly has a lot of agency in the matter.

I think she’s a victim of the media sadly and isn’t really aware that she’s harming herself, but that’s just what I think.

Sorry you won’t get any sympathy from me for her. There are a couple of threads active about her go and have a read. The neglect of her children , animals. Her appalling driving record. The only person who exploits Katie Price is Katie Price. It erks me seeing her get a free pass on MN simply because she is a woman

All I've seen recently is her daughter speaking out about her horrible home growing up and neglect. She hasn't been married to Peter Andre in over 15 years so I'm not sure what the relevance there is. And again I'm not sure who would be exploiting her but herself.

Agree with PP, KP is the one putting the stories forward. She's attempting damage control because it's coming more known that her kids have all been removed from her care.

The footage of Peter Andre treating her badly and mocking Harvey is disturbing. He is not the good bloke that he and his management would like us to believe. I’m not surprised he chose to be with a younger, impressionable woman afterwards.

Katie Price isn’t great though. I think she may have some severe trauma, mental health issues and ND, but it doesn’t excuse her behaviour.

I feel for all the children.

I agree with you op. Many of her problems seemed to appear after she split with Peter Andre, she's far from perfect but I think he did a number on her. She was also gang raped at gun point with her children close by, that's enough to seriously screw anyone up.

She isn't an acceptable victim to many because she has very public flaws, but that doesn't make her less worthy of sympathy for what she's been through. I also find the whitewashing of Peter Andre's behaviour at the expense of hers to be deeply distasteful and sexist.

If you truly believe PA is responsible for all her problems then why has she never done a ‘tell -all’ interview detailing his abuse. She hasn’t shut up about him for years but has never mentioned that. Probably because it never happened.

Someone is going to sue the bejesus out of this woman soon enough.

’I have always felt that Katie Price has been horribly abused by the media- most recently by their exploiting what look like real mental health struggles & body dysmorphia for prurient clicks.Treated as a blow up doll not a feeling & suffering human.
And now over the past few days I have been horrified to read accounts of the way Peter Andre allegedly behaved to her in their marriage- & of what look like really disturbing patterns of behaviour & remarks.
I should say that I have never watched any of their reality TV show- but are these reports accurate? I mean, appalling remarks such as ‘stuck up beaver’? Imitating her voice? Accusations of sexual promiscuity? The sexualised abuse terms?
Or is this just another media pile on?’
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You are extremely naive. Every photo, every story and every line written about her is approved by her. Good or bad publicity, it doesn’t matter, it’s how she makes her living.

The same for Peter Andre.

Katie Price isn’t a victim. You could say the victims are the gullible people sucking up the tabloid stories and believing every word!

Katie Price is a string, determined woman and she calls all the shots in her life and now her modelling days are over she is selling the extreme cosmetic surgery look and it’s extremely successful for her. She is getting a huge amount of attention these days and attention equals ££££’s.

I watched the recent clips of how he spoke to her and how he treated her during their marriage, and it made my skin crawl.

I didn't watch the show and don't like the way this woman is savaged given how she's obviously suffering from mental health issues. I noticed that Britney Spears has exposed herself on Instagram and pictures are in the papers. She's obviously very unwell, partly driven mad by the press and they're continuing to exploit her for clicks.

Price seems to be exploited by men so it doesn't surprise me that they're abusive in other ways.

This.
She's currently on tour, she wants more publicity to promote it.

I remember watching the tv show and yes, he was awful to her. It was clear that he hated that she was more popular than him. When he was accompanying her on interviews/photo shoots etc he’d always be putting her down, making fun of her etc, trying to make her look stupid / promiscuous / unworthy. I’m surprised it’s taken this long for the media to bring it all to the surface. I’ve also seen a clip where he got into a strop with his current wife because she’d already been to a holiday destination that he hadn’t been to (can’t remember the exact details but I remember thinking what an insecure man baby he was).
I know Katie Price had also done some awful things with the drink driving and animal neglect etc but abuse victims don’t have to be perfect people, what I mean is that I don’t think people can say that she wasn’t abused and manipulated by Peter Andre just because she’s done some terrible things herself.

She's not a well woman I don't know how much of her problems can be attributed to PA and their short relationship. She'd had a chaotic life and bore the scars of trauma for a long while before they met. She's been in self-destruct mode for a long time. It's sad to see and very dangerous for anyone or any thing in her vicinity (children, pets especially). She needs serious psychiatric intervention not more enablement and exploitation but I don't think it's going to happen.

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I think she has strong narcissistic tendencies and like all narcissistic people in every situation that goes wrong for her she sees herself as a victim but she actively makes choices that harm her children and inadvertently because they are bad choices hurt herself too.

You can have strong narcissistic tendencies and of course still be a victim along the way too they are not mutually exclusive. I think PA has similar tendencies from what I’ve seen. Those poor kids.

That's not true that she aproves all stories about her. That's ridiculous.

I think she's got unprocessed trauma from their relationship. He was toxic and jealous and he never revived his singing career egotistcal man who didn't like being in her shadow.
But it's sad she was incredibly beautiful.

I blame Claire mcCan the manager - she pulled the strings. People used to tout kp pretended to be shallow but was a savvy business women - I think she was never particularly business minded, Claire pulled all the strings. And kept everything afloat.
She exploited kp and then jumped ship with pa after divorce.
Kp went bankrupt and between loosing Pete and her manager she seemed to loose steam and all bisness direction.
She got bad press While Claire set up family man photo ops for Pete.

She needed support and Claire McCan screwed her at her lowest point. Whislt making millions off her.

It’s about time - I think the pricey camp have been waiting until the children are over 18.
I knew he abused and manipulated her and made her out to be the problem. Katie is no saint but she is clearly on the spectrum and dealing with ptsd. She’s not a bad person.

'I don't know about her and Peter Andre, but if anyone's exploiting her its herself.'

Then you're missing a lot of information and don't seem to be very well informed on misogyny, and the nature of exploitation.

Go and do some reading.