I thought the same. I actually warmed to her in the first two books, especially in the first one where she spoke about her abusive relationship in her teens and found the whole Gareth Gates story a massive double standard and felt sorry for her! Was so happy that she found Peter as I thought all she needed was love and affection then from book 3 it all seemed to go pear shaped, call me cynical but it’s like she almost wanted to have bad luck in her life just to get books and headlines.
Iv read them all too- I used to be a massive fan, il admit! I loved her show with Pete and I used to copy my hair like hers etc!! (I was young!!but still I’m mortified!)
Since Iv been on this thread Iv been re-watching some of the shows and with 10+ years of seeing her antics in the press you realise just how flawed she is. She repeats her behaviour with every guy in her life- a cycle of jumping in too quick, marrying them, treating them mean and getting bored and then finding attention elsewhere. She’s utterly self destructive, she doesn’t seem to learn from past mistakes like most of us do, There’s not self awareness and theres never any growth with her. When you look back she really did have it all- she had a loving relationship, a beautiful home , the looks and she seemed to be business savvy. She did work hard and you can’t say she didn’t if you look at how busy she was in the Pete days and the years following.
Iv just been watching the episodes with her and that Leo guy and she’s engaged to him but she looks and sounds miserable, there’s no spark to her- so why does she accept the proposal?! At this point in her life her house was beautiful, furnished lovely and it was so tidy. I was surprised that her mum and brother seemed to adore that Leo!! They thought he was a decent guy.
This was all just before she met Kieron. There’s even an episode where she takes her friends to a psychic and one of the friends is Jayne poutney (the one Kieron cheated with) and it’s horrible to watch. Jayne sits there and draws Katie’s aura black (lmfao!) and then Katie shouts at least I’m not grey!!!! They seemed to dislike each other even when friends! It’s so awkward to watch! But why was she surrounding herself with people like that?! It’s like she brings it all on herself.
It seems as soon as she met Kieron and that relationship went sour her whole life went into even more of a downward spiral.
There’s one episode interviewing Harvey teacher who says ‘everything he does is for mummy’ - it’s so very sad that she seems to be more preoccupied with having fun and regaining her youth than focusing on being a mum now. She gives it all this independent woman
tit but she only feels validated with a man around her.
Utterly sad.