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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - isn’t it?

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RosiesMaw2 Sat 10-Aug-24 11:02:34

I saw this pic of Katie Price today and felt sad for her.
She presumably thinks what she is doing to her face and body make her more attractive, but I am seeing, over inflated lips, an over inflated bust, rough looking skin, dyed hair and unattractive tattoos. I hope she is happy with what this is costing her, but IMO true beauty comes from within- and can shine through the wrinkliest face!
I just know which one I would rather be.

MissInterpreted Sat 10-Aug-24 11:05:28

I think she's clearly had deep-seated mental health issues for years - body dysmorphia, perhaps? I don't think she'll ever be satisfied with how she looks - but on a more cynical level, I think she knows full well than every time she has more surgery, it all adds up to more column inches and more publicity for her.

nightowl Sat 10-Aug-24 11:29:28

I fear she will end up dead. She seems to be on a spiral of self-destruction. Whoever carried out her last facelift should be prosecuted, and probably whoever carried out most of her latest cosmetic procedures as well.

Chocolatelovinggran Sat 10-Aug-24 11:58:08

I agree with the posts here regarding Katie Price. She seems a very disturbed woman, constantly subjecting her body to unnecessary surgery.
Equally worrying, she appears to think that court demands are requests/ optional activities and that holidays and (more) cosmetic surgery would be accepted as a reason for non- attendance.
I fear that she is heading for a custodial sentence. The judiciary must be exasperated with her refusal to engage with due process of law.

MissInterpreted Sat 10-Aug-24 12:01:21

Chocolatelovinggran

I agree with the posts here regarding Katie Price. She seems a very disturbed woman, constantly subjecting her body to unnecessary surgery.
Equally worrying, she appears to think that court demands are requests/ optional activities and that holidays and (more) cosmetic surgery would be accepted as a reason for non- attendance.
I fear that she is heading for a custodial sentence. The judiciary must be exasperated with her refusal to engage with due process of law.

I've actually just read an online article which claims that she actually wants to be given a custodial sentence as she believes she will be able to 'cash in' on doing interviews from behind bars.

AGAA4 Sat 10-Aug-24 12:06:30

I think she's made herself unattractive. There's nothing like natural beauty whatever age you are.

Athrawes Sat 10-Aug-24 12:15:31

I'm probably wrong but I get the feeling she's lonely and does all this cosmetic stuff to make her feel better. It's very sad. And hasn't she got a difficult son to look after?

JamesandJon33 Sat 10-Aug-24 12:32:48

I also felt deeply sorry for her. She looks quite dreadfully weird. Poor lady.

annsixty Sat 10-Aug-24 12:34:17

I have posted this before I think.
I was in a queue in something like Matalan, I can’t remember the name, in Horsham with my GC buying bits for them, the woman in front had baskets full of children’s clothes, it was taking two assistants to deal with her and they suggested that we find another till.
My GC said look Nan it’s Katie Price and the attention from other shoppers confirmed it.
She was very pleasant looking but not at all glamorous.
I moved but my GC kept returning to the first till and when we left she had racked up over £700 with more to come.
This was just after her first bankruptcy hearing and a driving ban.
She is a very disturbed young woman who craves attention and will go to any lengths to get it.

OnwardandUpward Sat 10-Aug-24 12:42:22

I think its body dysmorphia, poor lady, she is ill.

The paper called her a "former glamour model" and she is, but she has not moved on to making money in more successful ways than doing things to get attention, then getting paid for it by the papers giving her money for the pics.

It's so sad and she must be in SO much pain from all the surgeries. It makes me wince to look at how tight her skin is as I can only imagine the pure discomfort and the mental distress that can cause someone to want to do this to themselves.

Her poor kids. I'm sure they thought she was beautiful without any surgery. Also saw in the news she was thinking of working as an escort to pay her debts. Hope that's not true, for the sake of her kids.

JaneJudge Sat 10-Aug-24 12:42:51

Athrawes

I'm probably wrong but I get the feeling she's lonely and does all this cosmetic stuff to make her feel better. It's very sad. And hasn't she got a difficult son to look after?

Yes, she’s a carer. Before someone says her son doesn’t live with her full time, neither does my disabled daughter with me - you are still a carer. You worry relentlessly, it doesn’t stop. You have put your trust in people to do the right thing and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes it’s far from ideal. Sometimes the complexity of your child’s disability, the understanding, the resolutions, it’s all down to you -their mum. It is overwhelming.

The media seem to have an agenda with vulnerable women in the spot light and many of them have a premature death.

I hate cosmetic surgery btw but there was a culture in the 90s for young girls to have their mammaries plastered on the inside of magazines and newspapers. Katie Price or Jordan as she was known then was one of them. It’s interesting how Pamela Anderson has found peace with herself as she’s got older

David49 Sat 10-Aug-24 12:47:14

There is a culture now, personally I find cosmetic “enhancement” unattractive and some young women look ridiculous, tattoos make it worse.

I guess I’m not their target audience.

MissAdventure Sat 10-Aug-24 12:50:12

The pity of it is that Katie was really naturally good looking in the first place.

Kandinsky Sat 10-Aug-24 12:50:30

It’s sometimes difficult for very attractive women, especially women in the ‘glamour’ industry, to accept the aging process.
They’d rather look weird than old.
A face covered in deep lines and wrinkles, along with a scraggy turkey neck is not a look they want.

MissAdventure Sat 10-Aug-24 12:56:58

Yes, exactly that.
If their whole identity and success has been based around them looking good, or like "the girl net door" (lesley Ash) the temptation, must be to try and preserve the image.

JaneJudge Sat 10-Aug-24 12:57:44

Did you see how the Appleton sisters were criticised recently for looking old? As they haven’t had Botox etc
It seems to me misogyny is the problem rather than the women themselves

MissAdventure Sat 10-Aug-24 13:02:04

No, I've not seen that, but no doubt it's happening.

I sometimes see a celeb and think they've not worn well, then realise they actually look as they should do.

Marydoll Sat 10-Aug-24 13:07:55

I have to say that I look better now in my late sixties, than when I was younger. wink

Two of my friends were very attractive, but liked to sunbathe and have paid the price. They are very wrinkly and have lost their looks!
I had no good looks to lose! 🤣

Tuaim Sat 10-Aug-24 13:17:46

Sometimes you meet someone and there is something about their smile, laugh or sense of humour which just connects you to them. That is what I call inner beauty. Doesn't matter the age, culture, gender or class, they just have it.

Babs03 Sat 10-Aug-24 13:37:58

I think there is a current trend for young women to make their faces look like the toy Bratz dolls, with long fake eyelashes and duck lips. Not so bothered about the eyelashes we wore fakes in our day but the lips look grotesque.
Katie Price reminds me of the late and not so great Michael Jackson, inasmuch as she keeps doing cosmetic surgery to herself until she looks a complete mess.
A shame really because she was a pretty young woman.

Redhead56 Sat 10-Aug-24 13:55:27

You could be totally naturally unattractive but inner beauty shines through.
There is too much emphasis on looks at one time it was film stars with the plastic surgery to keep their looks to keep getting the work. Now young girls are having it done before they have even matured.

BlueBelle Sat 10-Aug-24 13:58:00

She’s a trouble lady and perhaps since her son has gone into independant living she may be lonely lost a lot of her usefulness
I don’t know what she had been to Turkey for this time but it must be awful to never ever feel you look good enough

OnwardandUpward Sat 10-Aug-24 14:07:10

I think her son might have lost access to his care placement due to the money she's earned meaning that his care should be funded by her? If he's over a certain age I dont know if the government would step in and provide for him in this desperate situation?

I read that she can't get legal aid and can't fund legal representation either, so I don't know how she will manage in court. It's certainly an awful time, especially for her son needing her care (or financial provision for care)

biglouis Sat 10-Aug-24 14:14:01

Men can fall victim to this too! Lets not forget how Michael Jackson turned himself from a handsome young black man to a pasty faced monster! We know now that he was mercilessly bullied by his father as a boy. No doubt he developed many of his metal problems as a result.

3nanny6 Sat 10-Aug-24 14:19:26

Where does she find the money for all these procedures? she is supposed to be bankrupt and yet still racking up debts. Katie is still Katie and on the news last night after her morning in court she apparently apologized to the judge saying she will be on time for her next court appearance. She was slightly concerned that she had two other appointments on the same day but those appointments could be moved as obviously court was more important. As a glamour model she probably feels that she must keep up her procedures to look good although her breasts are beginning to look quite bizarre and are now far too big and not attractive. I imagine the look she has with the big breasts is found to be more attractive to men that find that sort of thing a turn on.