Being Jordan [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Gee! This book is absolutely dreadful. I must admit, though, that once I had gotten over the initial shock I read it from cover to cover.
Now, America, if you had any illusions about the British working class, prepare to shed them now: we have trailer parks too you know.
Katie Price, the young lady who is Jordan, spends her life disrobing, partying and bedding inappropriate men, most of whom are minor celebrities themselves (some I had never heard of - minor indeed). They treat her not very well, but she gets her revenge here; she lets the world know how they performed in her bed, and describes their bodies (...).
This 'book' is redeemed by its window on the world of modern day celebrity in Great Britain: apparently one can make quite a good living by exposing oneself and going to parties. No other qualifications or talent is required; it seems that newspapers will be quite happy to report on these activities, and that a market exists for such a press.
In a way, good luck to Jordan for tapping into Britain's interest in her. But God Save England.

Being American I knew little about Jordan but from the reality show she did with Peter Andre several years back, I liked her candor and her seeming love for her son. So in this book, I was hoping to find a story about a big heart under the facade of glamour girl. Or at the least, a provocative story from a woman who chooses to have as much fun as men do. But unfortunately I got the ramblings of woman who pretends to be a martyr for love but is pretty much just a selfish girl who throws various fits when the control she has over men doesn't work out as she would like.

Maybe if this book was told with a different heart, it might make Katie Price seem like a strong woman who has been put through the ringer. But once you get past her teenage years in the story, the writing develops a self piety, "why me" attitude, that any person can see is completely her own doing.

The book is nothing but an attempt to get back at boyfriends who have done her wrong. And while I have no problem with a good revenge book, I just can't handle how much of a victim she makes herself in circumstances that are her choice. Maybe it's just me but when your boyfriend tries to pick up on every woman in the room while you are in it, you break up with him. You don't stay with him and act like a victim of his bad behavior but this is pretty much every single story in the book.

In fact I will sum up 98% of the book for you: Katie "falls in love" with a guy for completely superficial reasons, the kinds of reasons 14 year olds fall for each other, within weeks or months she is no longer satisfied solely with this man's attention so she actively seeks out other men's attentions, always ready to trade the guy she is with for another man, she then cries when her attempt at an affair doesn't happen, then complains that now her current boyfriend is starting to get suspicious but she can't figure out why (must be jealousy), he now starts to treat her terribly, she now becomes clingy and desperate or heartless herself, blaming his behavior as the cause of her own bad behavior, and then either finds a new man to dump him for or gets dumped and then runs to the closest man she can find so she doesn't feel alone, never stopping to wonder if she is not choosing the right kind of men. And the cycle continues. Also, in all of these stories we are regaled with how small or unskilled her loves are in bed. It's clear she is going for the jugular every time with the ex's. Oh but it's OK, she tells you they sold stories of her too so that makes it OK to talk about how unsatisfying they are as lovers.

She comes off as stuck in a teenage mindset who uses everything from sex to suicide to abortions to try to get men to do what she wants. And is so desperate for any male attention it seems even her career choice is solely to remind her that there are men who want her. This isn't a woman who is powerful in her sexuality. She repeatedly comes off desperate for a man so she will use her sexuality to try to get him to choose her.

If a man wrote this book, talking about choosing women for their looks, running around behind their backs trying to get other women, blaming the woman's lack of sexual abilities as a cause of him wanting to leave the relationship, describing the girls private parts in detail, blaming his own bad behavior on the woman's behavior, and then manipulates her, that man would be strung up in the streets! But because it's a woman we are supposed to praise her?

There is nothing to praise here. This woman is a narcissist who can't see how hypocritical it is that every single thing she cries about her boyfriends doing, she also does to them.

This is a pretty sensational autobiography. Katie Price is Britain's most outrageous star, and as I'm from the U.S., I've only heard bits and pieces of her story from Perez Hilton, E! and other online publications. I was able to grab a copy of this from my college library and I was floored by her honesty: she gives details on everything: her early days modeling, all the men she's dated and the birth of her son. I had a difficult time putting this book down, it's a page turner. I suggest getting to know Katie, a.k.a. Jordan. She has her flaws, she's unlike anyone else but she has a story to tell. I can't wait to read her next books.