Book: Being Jordan - Katie Price (2004)

I admit that in the past I have often wondered to myself, just what IS the point of Jordan? I suppose a lot of her male fans will immediately say that there is in fact two very good points to Jordan but I am not referring to her anatomy here! However, no matter what I may have thought of her trashy image, I still believed that she did have a life worth reading about and that it may be quite entertaining to read her book. When I had finished the first page I was hooked. She writes in such an engaging manner that you cannot fail to become engrossed in the story of her life. Whatever she writes you believe it because this girl wears her heart on her sleeve for everyone to see and abuse. She said she had a good childhood but from the early photos of her you could also see that with her looks and her rather outgoing nature, she was destined to be a model. Underneath all that make up and hair extensions, Jordan (or Katie Price as she should be called) is a very beautiful woman. She comes from a very good looking family and she has learnt to use her face to gain the fame she craved. Her story is pretty much run of the mill with pretty girl getting her lucky break in the modelling world, but the story is livened up by her rocky relationships. She picks the wrong fellas time after time and you almost hear yourself shouting at the book “No Katie! Don’t pick him as he will be no good for you!”. Inevitably she ends up in this awful relationship where it all goes wrong and she ends up depressed and unhappy. At one point she tried to commit suicide in order to keep her man but it didn’t work (thankfully). She can’t seem to help herself, and up until the time she met Peter Andre (now her Husband), she went through some rough times with men. One of which fathered her son Harvey. Now this is where my opinion of Jordan / Katie changed. Harvey is a severely disabled child. He needs a lot of care but Katie has become a first rate mother.
I ended up liking the woman and I never thought I would say that. She hasn’t really set the world alight with anything but she does have a charm all of her own. Her book was enjoyable, it is one of those you can’t help but keep turning over the page to find out ‘what Katie did next' (excuse the pun).
Score Board: Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. 10/10