goodbye Kate Moss (& good riddance)

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Kate's been dropped by H&M. She was filmed snorting coke.

Been thinking about these two anti Kate Moss threads. I bet if a MNer posted under relationships:
"Please help, my life is spiraling out of control at the moment. I have been lucky & my career has done really well, I have a great child & a really lovely, funny boyfriend. However, my bf has an awful drug habit & I now seem to be getting sucked further into the drugs scene....."
we would all be supportive and helpful.
So, why is it that just because someone is well known, because of their profession, that people think they are fair game for a good slagging off?
I'm not trying to have a go at anyone, I'm just curious at the strength of feelings about Kate Moss's personal situation (most of which is wild tabloid speculation anyway).

HERE HERE BUGSY!!

Some teeenagers are going to think snorting coke is cool anyway, with or without her. Some will be offered it. Most can't afford it. Some will take it. Most won't. It happens and i really actually truly believe it's not her fault. It is unfair to blame her. I have been offered coke and never thought oooo thingy off the telly takes that i'll have some. Does anyone remember being young at all?

Actually, I think if someone said, 'I have a two year old daughter and my new boyfriend is a heroin addict, who takes drugs in front of her and is constantly off his head on heroin. I like to carry a bag of coke around with me and take really huge amounts of it with my new bloke' I don't think the response would be that sympathetic, actually.

Argh

Agree with your post charleypops

i don't want to slag her off. she's been linked to drugs for about as long as she's had a career. we all need help at some point. however, as her employer, i'd fire her a*s for being caught doing drugs while working for my company. or maybe not. as someone pointed out, H&M are now getting double street cred.

How many people here actually did things because a famous person did (with the exception of cringeworthy haircuts)?

If I was going to do something, it was generally when a group of us decided it was a bright idea, and that idea came from other "normal" people in our day to day lives.

heroin is a wicked evil substance, hardly ther same as coke but I do find it odd that they manage to have a relationship when he is a heroin addict as from my experience of heroin it is almost impossible to have relationships - that is my only fleeting judgement on the matter

plus I like H&M clothes

What makes it all the much worse abbout KAte Moss is that shes a mother!! I think that she is being dropped by Rimmel too, as their target consumers are teenage girls.

I don't think that anyone who lets a smack head like Doherty be around her little girl and KM to be caught doing Coke deserves any portrayl in a good light.

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What I object to is not the person but the behaviour.
The behaviour is not to my taste, regardless of how many people do it or how common it is. It will always be something I don't agree with.

No, it's not her fault, my point is, she makes money as a style icon and she perpetuates the image of coke being cool. I've had loads of coke, weed, whatever in the past, so I'm not a prude and I remember being a teenager, Maybe if Posh snorted it it'd put kids off!

I have no personal feelings about her other than that - she's beautiful, that's all I know. I would support her if she was a friend, I just don't think her employers should be expected to put up with it if it's not the image they want associating with their brands. Why should they?

I'm not keen on Kate Moss for an unrelated reason...I was watching one of those low brow programmes that I so favour (tenants from hell or summat like that) and it featured an elderly couple who had rented their country retreat to Kate Moss for 2 or 3 years as her rural hang out.

When they got their property back at the end of the tenancy she and her cronies had completely and utterly wrecked it...It had been rented to her partly furnished, and much of the antique furniture was ruined by fag marks, beautiful oak chairs had been left out in the rain etc..

No real relevance to this thread....just thought I would whitter on aimlessly about why I am suspiscious of KM

dd recently walked in the bedroom while dh & i were making love (it was past midnight -- she'd had a nightmare). it's not something i'd ever do in front of her but it doesn't mean i shouldn't do it at all. kate moss can snort until her nose caves in but i don't want to see it.

Do you not think somehow that she has serious issues to deal with if she is finding love with someone who cannot possibly love her back? Do you not think she maybe suffereing a little bit here. Do you not think judging people and getting on a moral highground is really bloody annoying. We don't know the woman, the media doesn't.
I'd love the paparazzi and Newspapers to sit outside your houses and see what they can come up with about your lives. They would rip everyone to pieces. Then we could all sit down her discussing the bias view you were all scum.
Have some bleeding compassion.

and I do think she should have worn a skirt at Glastonbury....

I don't think drug taking should be condoned - but I dislike the "jump on the bandwagon & have a go" mentality that the tabloids encourage.

None of us, as far as I know, have any personal knowledge of Kate Moss at all. A few years ago, she was the media darling applauded for being so down to earth, yes so she smoked a few fags, did the odd line but here was a British lass who hadn't got all snooty & up herself. Probably an utter load of old tosh too, but now it seems that because her life appears to be going through an extremely unsettled, unstable time and the tabloids are getting vast amounts of revenue from printing stories & pictures of her, that we all get to stand in judgement of her.
Doesn't seem right to me.

It's interesting this role-model issue.
I agree that children don't do things because someone famous does / did it. That's fair enough.
But there is an acceptance now that taking drugs etc (put it there what you will) is normal and everyday and therefore acceptable. And we do see / hear so many stories like this. Yes it's probably no different to say the 60s but it just seems so commonplace and so widely reported. Well it's not in my life and I don't think it should be presented as such.
Got my old fart head on today folks!

Probably nicer than that Naomi Campbell though...

anyway, ttfn

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Fairfly, the media would be bored shitless outside my house.

Who says she has been handed the world on a plate? Who on earth has ever achieved such a thing. A perfect life doesn't exist. She will feel fear and pain and loss like the rest of us.

HappyMumof2, it seems to me that you are saying just because she is wealthy & well known she should be immune to making mistakes.

talk about judging people and taking a moral highground, fairyfly. take it easy! this is a discussion, not a brawl.