"I was a real rebel. I got expelled"
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There is a particular kind of celebrity autobiography bravado in "I was a real rebel. I got expelled": two short sentences that turn institutional failure into a badge and a punchline. Coming from Katie Price, a figure who built a career by refusing polite British respectability, the line reads less like political rebellion and more like tabloid-grade misbehavior elevated into origin myth. The cadence matters. "Real rebel" is a self-awarded title; "I got expelled" is the receipt, dropped with the deadpan simplicity of a mic drop. It’s comedy-by-compression.
The intent is to claim agency over a story that could otherwise be used to diminish her. Expulsion is supposed to signal disgrace, lack of discipline, wasted potential. Price flips it into proof of authenticity: she didn’t just bend rules, she triggered consequences. In celebrity culture, consequences can function as credibility. A sanitized star is often a fragile one; a scandal-tested star feels durable.
The subtext is a knowing wink at how rebellion gets commodified, especially for women whose visibility is routinely policed. Calling herself a "rebel" is both defiance and branding, a way to preempt moralizing by framing her as someone who never sought approval from gatekeepers anyway. The context is late-90s/2000s British fame, where class, taste, and "respectability" operate like invisible bouncers. Price’s line doesn’t argue against that system; it shrugs at it, then sells the shrug as personality.
The intent is to claim agency over a story that could otherwise be used to diminish her. Expulsion is supposed to signal disgrace, lack of discipline, wasted potential. Price flips it into proof of authenticity: she didn’t just bend rules, she triggered consequences. In celebrity culture, consequences can function as credibility. A sanitized star is often a fragile one; a scandal-tested star feels durable.
The subtext is a knowing wink at how rebellion gets commodified, especially for women whose visibility is routinely policed. Calling herself a "rebel" is both defiance and branding, a way to preempt moralizing by framing her as someone who never sought approval from gatekeepers anyway. The context is late-90s/2000s British fame, where class, taste, and "respectability" operate like invisible bouncers. Price’s line doesn’t argue against that system; it shrugs at it, then sells the shrug as personality.
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