Katie Price herself is the brand and her body is the business.
Page Three, reality TV, kids’ books, pop and perfume – you name it, Katie Price has done it. At the height of her fame in the 2000s, even Kim Kardashian revealed herself to be a fan of the star formerly known as Jordan.
Estimated to be worth around £45m at the top of her career, Price is at once in-your-face fake, yet totally herself.
Today, Katie has hit the headlines…AGAIN.
This time, she’s shedding light on the ‘real’ reason for the breakdown of her relationship with Peter Andre.
Katie Price and Peter Andre were once one of the UK’s most closely followed celebrity couples, thanks to their whirlwind romance that began on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in 2004. After tying the knot in 2005 and welcoming two children, Junior and Princess, their fairytale seemingly turned sour and ended in divorce by 2009.
Recently, Katie Price shed light on the reasons for their breakup during an interview on Paul Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast, offering fresh insights into their high-profile separation.
As the news articles continue to circulate, we take a look at Katie’s life – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Katie gained recognition in the early 1990’s with her glamour model work and in 1993, appeared on page 3 in the Sun as ‘Jordan’.
It was an alter ego which would stay with her until she went back to her birth name and re-branded herself as Katie Price eight years later.
‘Jordan’ was never out of the tabloid press and celeb mags and still isn’t today – love her or hate her, if the goal was to stay in the public eye – she’s succeeded.
Just a few years after her career kicked off, Katie’s love of surgery began. Some say this was the beginning of the end for Katie.
She started off with the first of many breast enhancements – going from her natural 32B to a 32C. A year later she’d have two more operations. A professional lifestyle choice, boob jobs would go on to punctuate her career.
Since then, she has had SEVENTEEN boob jobs with even her sister Sophie saying that her love of surgery is an actual form of self-harm.
She has gone both up and down in size over the years, her largest being 2120 cubic centimetre implants in 2022 (that’s three times bigger than a standard E cup), before a slight reduction again this year.
Katie’s mum Amy, however, states she has a form of body dysmorphia which is why she has had so much surgery. But, where does it end and can she really be happy?
Katie has been a jack of all trades and never scared to share her opinion which has seen her on chat show sofas, presenting, reality tv shows, write books and so much more.
But, in recent years, legal and financial issues have plagued Katie.
In 2021 Price received a 16-week suspended sentence after flipping her car while under the influence of alcohol and cocaine, during which time she said she was suffering from a breakdown.
In 2022 she was spared a prison sentence after breaching a restraining order forbidding her from contacting her ex-husband, Kieran Hayler’s, fiancée.
This year she was declared bankrupt due to an unpaid tax bill worth more than £750,000.
Earlier this year she was arrested in Heathrow after failing to show up at a bankruptcy court hearing last month. She was returning from Turkey where she’d been undergoing cosmetic surgery.
Some have also blamed her downfall on a clear-cut decline in business.
Sarah Ditum, author and Times columnist, says it’s “not clear where you go and how much you can progress when your business is that kind of extreme treatment of your body”.
And when your body is your business, your figure has more important figures attached to it than most.
She explains: “The economy she comes out of, the soft porn economy, has really collapsed.
“If you’re someone like her, who could make pretty decent money out of selling calendars, and posters, and that kind of stuff that was your ancillary income if you were a model, that doesn’t exist anymore. People do not go out and buy calendars of their favourite models.”
Rising to fame ahead of the explosion of social media, the media landscape has now changed beyond all recognition.
Is both a mix of surgery, impulse, and the changing media landscape that has led to Katie’s downfall?
As for her future, who knows, but in her own words “never underestimate the Pricey.”
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