"Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!"
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Ambition is doing PR for itself here, dressed up as modesty. Katie Price frames her career as a neat checklist - singing now, acting later - as if the only real constraint is scheduling. That breezy "Hopefully" signals humility on paper, but the sentence keeps lunging forward: success is assumed to be available, just not yet allocated. The real work of the quote is reputational triage. Price is a model-turned-tabloid lightning rod in a culture that loves to brand women like her as "famous for being famous"; listing respectable, legible crafts (singing, acting) is a bid to convert notoriety into recognized talent without apologizing for wanting more.
The subtext is also about managing a particular kind of scrutiny. In the UK celebrity ecosystem of the early 2000s, female ambition is often treated as either delusion or greed. "One at a time" is a disarming concession to that skepticism: she preempts the eye-roll by performing reasonableness. It's a soft negotiation with gatekeepers and audiences who demand both hustle and restraint, reinvention and gratitude.
What makes the line culturally sticky is how it captures a transition moment: celebrity as a portfolio career. Price isn’t presenting a singular calling; she’s describing a personal brand expanding into adjacent markets. It’s not an artist’s manifesto, it’s an entrepreneur’s timeline - and it reveals how, for women whose public image is treated as their primary product, aspiration has to be packaged as practicality to be taken seriously.
The subtext is also about managing a particular kind of scrutiny. In the UK celebrity ecosystem of the early 2000s, female ambition is often treated as either delusion or greed. "One at a time" is a disarming concession to that skepticism: she preempts the eye-roll by performing reasonableness. It's a soft negotiation with gatekeepers and audiences who demand both hustle and restraint, reinvention and gratitude.
What makes the line culturally sticky is how it captures a transition moment: celebrity as a portfolio career. Price isn’t presenting a singular calling; she’s describing a personal brand expanding into adjacent markets. It’s not an artist’s manifesto, it’s an entrepreneur’s timeline - and it reveals how, for women whose public image is treated as their primary product, aspiration has to be packaged as practicality to be taken seriously.
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