Katie Price (Jordan)

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On the cover of this week's UK OK! dated Feb 3rd 2015 (dailymail.co.uk

 

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Wow, she looks great on that cover. She must stick to this colour.

 

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On ITV's This Morning (dailymail.co.uk

 

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Going to a hotel after winning Celebrity Big Brother (dailymail.co.uk

 

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At the Alexander O'Neal show at the Jazz Cafe in Camden (dailymail.co.uk

 

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Out in London with the kids (dailymail.co.uk

 

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At the London Fashion For Relief show (dailymail.co.uk

 

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Awesome!!! Thanks for the pictures.
She looks great. Love seeing her hair pulled back like that. Looks good on her. ☺️

 

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I applaud the mere fact that she attended! Besides, she look really hot in the suit. If I don't look at the garish nails, I'd say it's perfect.

 

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Pictured ahead of her wedding vow renewal with husband Kieran Hayler (dailymail.co.uk

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At West Thirty Six restaurant in Notting Hill (dailymail.co.uk

 

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Crikey, look at her hands!! Looks like clay, so false.

 

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In the same shot as the Duchess of Cornwall at Cheltenham Festival (dailymail.co.uk

 

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On This Morning with her eldest son Harvey, speaking about life with a disabled child (dailymail.co.uk

 

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God, how on earth did she manage that! Truth be told she and Kieran looked good, indeed better than the Duchess. But the hair??

 

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At Le Gavroche in London's West End; at Sheesh restaurant in Chigwell, Essex (dailymail.co.uk

 

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Appearing at the Advertising Week Europe Talk to discuss building a personal brand (dailymail.co.uk

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In the Evening Standard's ES Magazine (standard.co.uk



Mother of reinvention: Katie Price on vulnerability, facing up to her mistakes and why she’ll never be a feminist

For 20 years, Katie Price has been an object of the nation’s fascination, her every outfit, cosmetic surgery procedure, relationship and drama explored in minute detail. But after a ‘horrible’ year, which saw her third husband cheat on her with her two best friends, the former glamour model has only two things on her mind: business and babies. Here she opens up to Louise Gannon about her new look and how she is happy with Kieran Hayler

Katie Price has something to celebrate. ‘No bloody big boobs,’ she says. ‘I absolutely love it.’ For a woman who made her £40m fortune on the back of those enormous cartoon breasts, these are not words anyone would expect to come out of her mouth — but with ‘the Pricey’, you just have to sit back, expect the unexpected and cling on for the ride.

Right now the 36-year-old is surveying herself in a mirror on the ES shoot. Her make-up is minimal, her hair is pulled back; she is sleek, slender and classically chic — Katie Price reinvented as a powerful, luxe modern woman. She nods. ‘I like this. I like it a lot. I like the way my body looks, I love the way this dress fits, my body looks good. I’m very happy.’

If she wasn’t, she would tell you. Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield Price has never been one to hold back, or do what anyone tells her on her helter-skelter journey from comprehensive schoolgirl to Page Three stunner to reality star, scandal queen, serial wife, mother, writer, designer, equestrian, Oxford Union debater and self-made businesswoman. ‘I’ve always made my own decisions,’ she says.

‘Everything I’ve earned, everything I own is 100 per cent down to me; no one pulls my strings.’ She pauses and smiles. ‘That’s not to say I haven’t made a lot of mistakes. I’ve made loads. But all the mistakes I make I’m open about. I share my mistakes with everybody.’

Over the years we have witnessed, in full-on, headline-screaming, tabloid technicolour, many of Price’s mistakes, from the outfits to the relationships (Teddy Sheringham, Dwight Yorke, Gareth Gates), to the marriages (Peter Andre, Alex Reid, Kieran Hayler), to the surgery (seven breast augmentations, a nose job, lip implants, liposuction, teeth veneers). In the past year alone there was the revelation that her husband Hayler, 27, a former stripper, cheated on her with two of her best friends, Jane Pountney, 50, and Chrissy Thomas, 42, while Price was pregnant (she has had two children, 19-month-old Jett and seven-month-old Bunny, by Hayler in two years). After punching Pountney Sopranos-style and turning the full force of her wrath on Hayler (‘I will never see either of those whores again as long as I live’), she brought in a lie-detector machine and a therapist, who put Hayler through an extreme course of cognitive behavioural therapy for sex addiction. Last month they went through a well-publicised vow renewal — their third marriage ceremony since they met in 2012.

In the meantime, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother (winning by an overwhelming majority) and underwent several emergency surgeries after an operation to reduce her breasts went so wrong that septic holes appeared in her skin — she went through the last few days of Celebrity Big Brother dosed up on painkillers. ‘I thought I’d be out first, I thought they’d regret paying me as much as they did [reportedly £500,000]. I was pretty unwell in the house, because of the infection in my boobs, and I couldn’t be bothered fighting with Katie Hopkins because I knew what she was up to. She just wanted to fight. But after all the crap I’d been through, I couldn’t be bothered getting dragged into a battle over a million petty things. I never expected to win. I never expect people to like me.’

So where do we start? ‘There’s always too much drama going on. I don’t want drama this year, I want business,’ she says. ‘I had the worst year of my life last year, but I want to move on and my best way of moving on is focusing on work. I’m planning perfumes, lingerie lines, new designs, more equestrian ranges [her KP Equestrian line is worth 80 per cent of the total UK riding clothing market]. I’ve had a year of horrible drama and now I just want to get back to work, show everyone what I’m good at.’

She is, she says, absolutely happy with Hayler. She accepts there are plenty around her who won’t fall for the ‘sex addiction’ line. ‘That doesn’t bother me. Everyone can have an opinion. I spoke to experts; I see how he's had to change and he knows there are no second chances. If he so much as texts another woman, that’s it, because that’s how it all starts for him. We did the vow renewal because it was important to him — more important to him than it was to me... I want this marriage to last. I don’t want to get married again. I want this marriage to work and I want more children. I want as many as I can have before a doctor says “no more” and then I’m going to adopt.’

It’s hard to extract the real Katie Price from the tumultuous events of her life. I tell her that she seems to have changed over the past five years. She disagrees: ‘I’ve never changed. I’ve always been the same. The difference is that people have seen a different side to me. People think I’m ballsy, brash and confrontational. They never saw I was vulnerable. They’ve seen that now but it’s always been there. I’m exactly as I always was.’

But she isn’t. When I first met Price six years ago, I didn’t like her. She could be funny, but she was defensive, hard. She has absolutely changed. A few months ago I went to her house, met her kids, saw her with her breasts bandaged, almost fainting with pain but feeding her daughter Bunny and pushing herself to finish a work schedule. But it was seeing her with her eldest son Harvey — who suffers from autism, limited vision and Prader-Willi syndrome (a rare genetic condition that causes constant hunger and restricted growth) — that made me really like her. With him she is her most true self — funny, sweet and strict, chiding him for trying to eat her sandwich, while fixing his hair and cuddling him. Harvey’s father is the footballer Dwight Yorke. He and Price split up when she was pregnant.

Price has five children by three fathers: Harvey, 12, by Yorke; Junior, nine, and seven-year-old Princess Tiaamii from her four-year marriage to the singer and TV presenter Peter Andre; and Jett and Bunny by Hayler. She sees herself as a very modern mother. She shares care of Junior and Princess with Andre but in every other way cares for and financially supports her brood. Last year she attempted, along with other mothers, to set up a special needs school with facilities for disabled children near her home, but it was vetoed by ministers. We talk about politics. She shakes her head: ‘I’m not for any one party but I do want to know about policies. There are things that need to change. From the age of 18 kids like Harvey lose their benefits — that’s it. The problem doesn’t go away but the assistance does. That makes life even harder for families who've just got to cope.’

Her mud-slinging split from Andre in 2009 held the front pages of celebrity magazines for a year, knocked off only by her roller-coaster dive into a second marriage, to the cross-dressing cage fighter Alex Reid in February 2010 (they split after 11 months). In February 2011, at the Oscars, she met the Argentinian model Leandro Penna and within a year was engaged, but they split in October 2012 and by January 2013 she had met and married Hayler. She’s not given to introspection. ‘People can say what they like about me but when I’m with someone, it’s serious. I’ve either married them or got engaged. It’s just there’s always a lot of drama.’ That’s one hell of an understatement.

 

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In the Evening Standard's ES Magazine (standard.co.uk

Physically, Price looks very different to how she did a decade ago. The boobs are gone, as are the lip implants and the hair extensions. She looks better. She doesn’t like to be psychoanalysed (‘I’ve never had therapy. I don’t want it. I don’t want to sit around moaning about myself, I want to just get on’), but it’s hard not to draw a parallel between her stripping out all the plastic from her body as her defensive outer layers have been stripped away over the years. ‘All women go through tough times,’ she says. ‘I’ve been battered and people have seen who I really am because of it. I don’t regret the fact it’s all happened in public because I’ve never wanted to be someone who pretends they’re perfect and their life is perfect.’

When she found out about Hayler’s cheating, she exploded. A lot of people, even those close to her, were shocked that she made the decision to stick with him. At the time she was pregnant with Bunny. ‘I asked him if he was staying with me because I had money and fame or because he loved me and he said it was because he loved me. He wasn’t lying. I stood with him and Jane and made him choose. He chose me. I hated him for what he did but I knew if we got past this problem we could move on. I still tell him our marriage is like a crumpled piece of paper. No amount of ironing will get out those creases but it’s what we have. We went to zero and we can only start rebuilding. I know he will never cheat again.’

The British public have been fascinated by Katie Price ever since she first gatecrashed her way into our consciousness back in 1996 as the glamour ‘stunner’ Jordan. Born in Brighton in 1978, she was the only child of Amy and Ray Infield. Her parents split up when she was four and her mother later married a builder, Paul Price, whom Price counts as family. Now they all live within a ten-minute drive of one another and see each other every day. She is close to her older half-brother Danny and younger half-sister Sophie — Danny, polite and mild-mannered, often accompanies her to shoots and events.

She was, by her own admission, ‘not very good at school’ (she left aged 16), but with her wide green eyes and perfect bone structure, she was outstandingly pretty and by 13 was already modelling. She had the effortless ability to make jaws drop, whether it was through her choice of clothes, her boyfriends or her behaviour: ‘I used to be terrible; it doesn’t take much to get me drunk and I’d always go for vodka, which I couldn’t handle,’ she says. ‘I hardly drink these days — having a hangover with five kids is no joke. I’ve found a drink I can handle: a p*rn Star Martini. After two of those I can be merry but not tipped over into nightmare. That’s what I stick to.’

There was also something of a Page Three Mrs Thatcher about her — she made no bones about being in it for the money and being the boss, but she balks at the question of whether she is a feminist: ‘I’d never say I was a feminist — I’d never want to define myself like that. I don’t follow people, I don’t have heroes or role models. I just have my own gut instincts.’

Price, however, has some surprising fans, such as Kate Moss, whom she met at a Simon Cowell party (‘We had a chat but I can’t remember half of it because it was in my drinking days’), and in February, Naomi Campbell personally requested her appearance in the fundraising catwalk show for her charity Fashion For Relief, to raise money to fight ebola. ‘I was called a few weeks in advance. If I’d been called a day before, I wouldn’t have done it because I’d have known I was just a replacement for someone who dropped out,’ she says. ‘I was terrified because it was right out of my comfort zone, but I bloody loved it.’ And the day before we meet she was snapped with the Duchess of Cornwall at Cheltenham Races — the pictures are all over the papers. ‘I don’t get the fuss,’ she says. ‘She likes horses, I like horses. She was very friendly.’

We talk about her new body (or rather the old body she has returned to after making a decision, aged 18, to go from a 32B to 32FF). ‘I like the way I look now, clothes fit better. I did it because I didn’t like the way my boobs looked any more. I think I look good. It’s sexy, I feel comfortable in my skin. I’ve had so many surgeries, that’s it now. I can’t say I have regrets but I won’t do any more to my body. I’ll still have Botox, but at the moment the thought of one more needle going into me makes me feel ill.’ If Princess wanted to become a glamour model, ‘I’d be supportive,’ she says. ‘I’d never be a hypocrite and say, “You can’t do that,” because I did it. But I wouldn’t let Princess have surgery before she was 21. I was 18 when I first had my boobs done and it was too young. There should be an age limit.’

How does she spend her money? ‘I don’t. I’m not flash. It goes on bills, food, kids, animals and holidays. I don't spend a lot on myself. My clothes come from River Island. I spend more on my horses than myself.’ How she would feel if fame ended tomorrow? ‘Fine,’ she says. ‘I’d get a job. I’d make a good nurse or carer because of years of having to look after Harvey, or maybe something in the police, or a therapist. I’d make a good therapist. I’m always listening to other people’s problems.’

People would be surprised, she says, if they knew how she fills her days. ‘I get up when Bunny wakes up, then I get Harvey up at 7am and give him a shower, get him into pull-ups. Kieran gets Jett, Princess and Junior ready, we sort out breakfast, either me or Kieran leaves the house at 8.20 to get them to school. Then it’s work calls and emails, looking after Jett and Bunny, feeding the animals, then pick-up from 3pm. Then teatime, homework, bath, bed, a bit of telly and goodnight. Me and Kieran always put out the uniforms and book bags for the next day before we go to sleep.’

She believes she’s got wiser with age — ‘I should bloody well hope so, all this **** I’ve been through should count for something’ — and is proud of what she has achieved. ‘I’m a great mum. I’m not a conventional mum but I’m a good mum. My kids are happy, polite and respectful. They know most things that happen to me but they deal with it. I’m always there, we talk about anything... I’d like to come down one day and have ten kids sitting around the kitchen table — that, to me, would really be success.’ And on that note, our interview abruptly comes to an end. She has to get to her daughter’s school play — some things are more important than business. The real Katie Price leaves the room.

 

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Out in Glasgow (dailymail.co.uk