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LIFE STORIES

Jade Goody is currently 27 years old, was born in London and moved to
Essex. She was brought up in South London by her mother.

Before she entered Big Brother, she was a dental nurse.

Jade has predicted several things in his/her life, and some of them have
unfortunately not come true.

Jade was certain that coming into Celebrity Big Brother would make her
more popular. After all, the public loved her, and she could do not wrong as
the media followed her every move. This idea occurred in her mind when
she saw from the media and her sales, how much the public love her.
Having known this, Jade was happy about it. She began to rinse her fame
and publicity stunts to her fortune.

The exact reason of why she went back into the Big Brother house a second
time backfired on her. She had no idea that as a result of her time in the
Big Brother house, politicians flew to India, Channel 4 received 300
complaints and that she was becoming hated, places stopped selling her
perfume. When she came out of the house, she was booed and was all over
daytime tv pleading to the viewers that she was not a racist. When she
came out of Big Brother, she became hated, and had her perfume removed
from The Perfume Shop.

Jade says that her incident with Shilpa Shetty was “in the past” and that
she was “not proud of it”. I think that Jade is more clever then she lets on
and that she chooses her words carefully.

Another thing she didn't predict is for her cancer to kill her. It is reported
that Jade came into the Indian version of Big Brother knowing that she
already had cancer. In her defence, she said “A lot of people will criticise
me for it, but I have to pay my bills. I need to make sure I can support my
boys.” “I have to keep working to support my family. Stopping work is not
an option”. It was also reported that she wanted the £1000 for entering the
show for her cancer treatment.

This started to affect her life for worse. Jade had to organise a christening
and wedding, and had it all over the media. She became severely ill,
coming from a wheelchair to blind. Her outlook to life has stayed the same
and it is more positive. She thinks that she is saving lives.
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Jade has predicted several things in her life, and some of them have
fortunately come true.

Jade was certain that, once she was famous, she predicted that she would
get more and more money and publicity. She was right about that. She has
become famous worldwide. She has made £8 million in the next five years
since coming out of Big Brother in 2002.

She had more than one fitness video, which is an achievement even for a
celebrity. In fact she had five. It’s reported that she paid £4,500 for
liposuction before one of her fitness dvds. It still sold though. What is it
about Jade that sells fitness dvds? Whatever the reason, she predicted that
she could continue to have more fitness dvds and still sell. She could do no
wrong.

This started to affect her life for better. Jade loved the media attention,
and she also loved it when The Sun made a lie about her making a perfume.
She, and her publicist Max Clifford, thought it was a great idea and decided
to have Jade make one. And it sold, entirely for the fact of it being Jade’s
perfume. She became richer, coming from a wheelchair to blind. Her
outlook to life has stayed the same and it is more positive. She thinks that
she is saving lives.

Jade says that her incident with Shilpa Shetty was “in the past” and that
she was “not proud of it”. I think that Jade is more clever then she lets on
and that she chooses her words carefully.

Jade also predicted that she would save lives. Her wedding cost a million
pounds. But that's a small price to pay for the lives that she'll be saving due
to the unique awareness the country has received due to her case. She even
had her chemotherapy filmed and shown on Living.

It was only a matter of time, that Cancer Research UK would experience an

increase of charitable donations. Cervical cancer, which is what Jade had Is
the most preventable cancer which also is the second biggest killer of
women in their 30s. Just Jade having cancer has made her indirectly save
loads of peoples lives. There was a woman on Tonight with Trevor
McDonald, who said that Jade had saved her lives, and that she was
eternally thankful.

Jade is happy about her life, how she will be remembered and how her
legacy lives on. She has reached an international status.
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References

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6276279.stm
(accessed 9:43 17th March 2009)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-jade-goody-phenomenon-
431370.html
(accessed 9:43 17th March 2009)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Goody
(accessed 9:43 17th March 2009)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-429860/Jade-Goodys-career-over.html
(accessed 9:43 17th March 2009)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/02/24/jade-goody-s-cancer-battle-
sparks-increase-in-women-having-smear-tests-115875-21148143/(
accessed 9:43 17th March 2009)