Katie Price is not a woman who likes to flaunt herself in the press. She’s not the kind of woman who will conduct her private business via the media because, and we bet you didn’t know this, she’s actually a very shy and retiring person who never wanted each and every bodily fluid to be relayed in newspapers or on television.

If you think she’s the opposite of what was said above, then you must be thinking of someone else because the woman who got off with Peter Andre on television, sold pictures of her children for a new kitchen and appears with story after story in the papers is saying that the media wants to “destroy” her with its “inhumane and out of order” coverage of her life.

Like fox hunting, only with a fox replaced by a large breasted woman and the horses and dogs replaced with pens and laptops or something.

The singer (haha!) told Metro that she had started taking legal action regarding a number of false things written about her in the press.

Price said:

“The media overexpose me and that’s not by choice. If anything, I’ve tried to step back this past year but they continue to put me on the front covers.”

“They’ve been part of my life for the past 13 years. I can take the ups and downs on the chin but this past year it’s been purely negative. They’re trying to destroy me but it’s not going to happen.”

Hmmm.

She added:

“If I was going to lose the plot I’d have done it by now. I don’t retaliate so they write what they like. I’m going through everything that’s been written with my solicitor and we’re starting to sue people.”

“People think I’m fair game but what they’ve done this past year has been disgusting. It’s inhumane and out of order. “

Of course, there’s a good chance that, if you turn on the tabloids that once made you currency, they could really turn ugly. Price doesn’t seem phased.

“I don’t care if I don’t work with them again. I do my TV show. I didn’t sell my wedding or blessing to magazines.”

“I did one shoot with the kids at home because I had to get the kitchen in as the guy did it for free but, apart from that, I can’t remember the last shoot I did with the kids.”

This is likely to turn very ugly indeed as the tabloid newspapers are an unforgiving bunch. The narrative at the moment is that Peter Andre seems like a nice enough bloke (irritating and a bit thick, granted) and that nasty Katie Price keeps making him cry AND SHE’S GONE TOO FAR.

Let’s see if anyone has the nerve to starve her of the oxygen of publicity (including ourselves as we don’t want our arses suing).

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