"I've always ridden horses"
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"I've always ridden horses" lands like a throwaway line, but it’s doing real image-management work. Katie Price is a tabloid-native celebrity who’s spent decades being treated like a punchline, a pin-up, a headline you’re supposed to skim with a smirk. This sentence is a quiet power move: it swaps the camera’s usual framing (sex, scandal, spectacle) for something stubbornly ordinary and skill-based. Not "I love horses" (soft, performative), but "I’ve always" (durational, identity-level) and "ridden" (active, competent, physical).
The subtext is a bid for legitimacy. Horse riding isn’t just a hobby in Britain; it carries class signals, discipline, early mornings, money, and a certain rural respectability. Price isn’t claiming refinement so much as continuity: before the fame, during the chaos, after the reinventions, there’s been this one constant where she’s not being consumed by an audience. It also nudges back against the way celebrity women are flattened into their bodies. Riding is bodily, yes, but in a way that implies control, balance, risk tolerance, and mastery rather than display.
Context matters because Price’s public narrative has often been about volatility. "Always" reads as a rebuttal to that edit. It insists there’s a stable self under the brand - and it’s not the one the tabloids keep selling.
The subtext is a bid for legitimacy. Horse riding isn’t just a hobby in Britain; it carries class signals, discipline, early mornings, money, and a certain rural respectability. Price isn’t claiming refinement so much as continuity: before the fame, during the chaos, after the reinventions, there’s been this one constant where she’s not being consumed by an audience. It also nudges back against the way celebrity women are flattened into their bodies. Riding is bodily, yes, but in a way that implies control, balance, risk tolerance, and mastery rather than display.
Context matters because Price’s public narrative has often been about volatility. "Always" reads as a rebuttal to that edit. It insists there’s a stable self under the brand - and it’s not the one the tabloids keep selling.
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