Jade to replace Kylie...

[beanieb]

On this forum and other forums I use, when Jade Goody was diagnosed with cervical cancer, there were several threads started to bitch and moan about how she was dealing with her cancer not to mention to bitch about her 'fame' and how it came about. People were/are pissed off (for want of a better phrase) with the way her diagnosis was so publicly broadcast, for how she allowed herself to be filmed etc. As time went on she was lambasted for selling her story. More recently though, as her cancer has changed from treatable to (possibly) terminal, the same forums have seen a whole different response - several threads expressing sympathy for her and for her children. An understanding, even, of why she is selling her story (for her Children's future) and there is even a (possibly several) facebook sympathy group.

Kylie on the other hand received sympathy from the off, people commended her for making people aware of breast cancer, for the fact that so many more women were self-examining and going to their doctor. She, unlike Jade, is a national treasure, her illness mattered to many people.

Admittedly Kylie didn't document her battle with Breast cancer in the tabloids, but then again she didn't really need to. Jade on the other hand had lost any public sympathy she had over 'racism-gate', has two young children, and basically did/does not have the same earning power as she used to or as Kylie has.

She said herself recently "?People will say I?m doing this for money ? and they?re right, I am. But not to buy flash cars or big houses. It?s for my sons? future if I?m not here. I don?t want my kids to have the same miserable, drug-blighted, poverty-stricken childhood I did"

Why is this? Why do we have sympathy for one public figure and not another? Surely if anything we should feel more sympathy for a person who has been mis-diagnosed than a person who's cancer was caught and treated early with the best treatment money can buy?

Despite their different profiles the truth is that both battles have resulted in an increase in awareness of the different kinds of cancer and, regardless of the nature of their 'fame' or the differing 'creative' output they have, surely we can find it in us all to look beyond that and feel some sympathy for the speed in which Jade Goody has seen her cancer attack?

Surely as individuals we have enough compassion and sympathy to take our feelings about her as a 'celebrity' out of the equation?

Have you changed your opinion/sympathies. and what do you really think about it all?

ohfgs, jade was a national treasure when she went into cbb, then she behaved like a nasty bully. she's not racist, no, but she used the language of racism to bully. not nice.

then, in an effort to rehabilitate herself she went on bb ovee in india and announced her cancer live to the nation... fair enough for people to raise an eyebrow i think, that she hadn't left the place immediately.

and then it took a while for it to become apparent that it was serious (rather than a Jordan thumb cancer scare ) and then people felt really sorry for her because it's hideous to think that a 27-year-old was having a hysterectomy and that her illness is getting worse.

it doesn't all have to Mean Something. Kylie's nicer than Jade, always has been. she's also BORING and sells songs rather than her soul.

agree with every word Aitch syas, except the national treasure bit

but Danielle Lloyd and jo whateve her name is disappeared back into obscurity after the cbb fiasco. Jade just pushed and pushed to stay in the limelight because it's all she knows.

And the fact her cancer was announced live on the indian version of bb just lowered her in the eyes of many.

It is not the public's responsibility to ensure her children have a future - surely she should have had life insurance? We shouldn't have to consider it to be ok to sell your soul just because you don't know any other way of making a living.

I'm sure she does have life assurance

I don't think it's the public's responsibility to ensure her children's future,not at all, but I don't think that she's necessarily wrong to sell her story. I also don't think that the readers of the tabloids/sleb mags are buying them with any thought to helping Jade's children. They are interested in life of someone who they seem to believe that they know.

I've never understood this hating Jade thing. It's like people who hate Jordan. What do I care what they do with their lives. Jordan and Jade and their ilk can do what they like. To be honest I have a sneaking admiration for someone who can make millions out of no discernible talent. They are not relying on anyone but themselves and are creating small fortunes in the process. So naturally I feel saddened by Jade's illness, it's sad such a young woman should face death at such an early age and that 2 little boys should be left without their mother, but no sadder than if this was happening to any other woman. The fact that it's Jade makes no difference to me. She didn't change in my estimations what so ever because of her illness, or indeed what she's decided to do since her diagnosis.