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Friday, 2 August, 2002, 16:29 GMT 17:29 UK
Jordan: Fronting up
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For Jordan is typical of so many in our celebrity lauded society in being famous merely for being famous. Her prize assets go before her in all their 32F abundance - the result of three separate silicon implants. Up-sizing The once well-proportioned pretty young model, too small for the catwalk scene, was advised to enlarge herself to help her succeed in the highly competitive world of male fantasy.
Her appearance on the front pages of the tabloids is guaranteed to raise readership figures. The Daily Star, in particular, at one time seemed almost to depend on her as their foremost weapon in the bitter circulation war. The newspaper even sponsored her as a candidate in the 2001 general election which she ran on a "free plastic surgery for all" platform. Boob and the ballot box Jordan's reinvention process did not stop with her breasts. She has had liposuction on her waist and hips, and enough collagen implanted in her lips to give her a permanent pout. Cries of "grotesque" and "cartoon fantasy woman" have abounded. But the work has continued and recently she was photographed for her first Playboy spread.
But there coexists, they say, a vulnerable Katie Price - her real name. A lover of dogs and horses, her life has been devoted to seeking male approval, going to extremes to please them but inevitably ending up being rejected. This is the stuff of the abused victim, a legacy of her early life. She was born Katie Infield 24 years ago in Brighton. Her father left home when she was four and the disruption caused the family to move 13 times. Sad start Her mother eventually married Paul Price and Katie took her new stepfather's name. When she was seven, she was molested by a man who had pulled her into some bushes. Her view of men could not have had a less promising start.
She lost her virginity at the age of 16 to a violent man who abused her and became jealous when she received attention from other men. This was to become a recurring theme in her life, by now played out in the goldfish bowl of tabloid journalism. After her first breast implant, in 1999, she adopted the name Jordan. Eager to please Last year, she told the People newspaper how she had gone to ever-increasing lengths to please and satisfy men. She spoke of how she hoped kinky sex would enable her to maintain relationships, how her breast implants were to increase her confidence and to make her more sexually appealing.
Elsewhere, she complains about men ogling her while simultaneously flaunting herself as a symbol of dubious sexual empowerment. Her brashness and undoubted business nous conceals a seemingly classic case of low personal esteem in a cruel business that will so often build you up and drop you when a younger, fresher commodity comes along. Football widow Jordan's baby, Harvey, was fathered by footballer Dwight Yorke, who (like Bowers before him) left her while she was pregnant. Her son's condition has no bearing on her famous partying lifestyle.
Determination is one positive attribute, at least, that Jordan is not short of.
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