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Welcome to Katie Price Online, your
number one fan resource for the gorgeous Katie Price aka 'Jordan'. First
making a name for herself as a Glamour Model, Katie has since captured the
hearts of millions around the world with her wild and outspoken personality.
Now she is a successful businesswoman, author, wife and mother and is
especially known for her reality TV show 'Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter'.
Here at Katie Price Online we will offer you the very latest news and images
on Katie and her family, and we also have a large Image Gallery full of
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Full Birth Name: Katrina Alexandra Infield
Date of Birth: 22 May 1978, Brighton, England, UK
EARLY LIFE
Katie Price was born and brought up in the seaside town of
Brighton in East Sussex, England. Her mother is English and her
maternal grandmother is Jewish. She took the surname Price after
her mother remarried following the split from her biological
father when she was a child. Katie has an older brother named
Daniel and a younger sister, Sophie.
Her decision to start modelling came after a friend suggested
she have some professional photographs done. The pictures were
sent to a modelling agency in London, and to her surprise, the
agency invited her into their studios for a photo shoot and to
discuss a contract. Within weeks she began appearing on 'Page 3'
of the The Sun newspaper (topless modelling). It was at this
time that she assumed the name 'Jordan' when somebody in the
photo shoot disapproved her using her real name and felt
'Jordan' would be best suited for her.
MODELLING
Although she was already a well-established model, with frequent
appearances on Page 3 and in men's lifestyle magazines to her
credit, Jordan still had a feeling of insecurity about her
breast size, and believed that implants would look better.
Friends, photographers with whom she had worked – and even her
parents – were against the idea. Nevertheless, the operation
went ahead, and her cup size increased from a B to a D. She has
stated that she "always felt that [she] looked flat-chested when
[she] stood next to other girls on the glamour circuit". Her
choice to "go under the knife" was a definitive factor in her
retirement from Page 3 topless modelling for The Sun, which had
recently decided on a "natural beauty" policy, requiring all its
models to be "silicone-free".
In an attempt to cross over from modelling to other areas, Katie
(unsuccessfully) tried out for a part on the television series
Baywatch in 1998, guest presented The Big Breakfast and played
herself in an episode of Dream Team.
In 2002, she was shooting a cover to run in Playboy when Hugh
Hefner invited her to spend three weeks at his mansion. She
appeared at a number of promotional events for the similarly
named Jordan Grand Prix Formula One team during this time,
during a period when they were heavily promoting themselves to
the youth market.
POLITICS
During the June 7, 2001, British General Election, Katie ran as
a candidate in Stretford and Urmston under her real name using
the slogan: 'For a Bigger and Betta Future'. As part of her
election campaign, which was intended to bring a little fun into
a dull election, she promised free breast implants, increases on
nudist beaches, and a ban on parking tickets. In the end, she
won 713 votes, 1.8% of the votes cast.
MUSIC
Under the name Katie Price, she was one of the acts competing
for the right to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision
Song Contest 2005, to be held in Ukraine. On 5 March 2005,
singing a song titled Not Just Anybody, wearing a skin tight
pink cat suit whilst heavily pregnant, she lost the public vote,
coming in second place in the pre-selection show Making Your
Mind Up, behind Javine. The other contestants were the 1996 UK
entrant Gina G, as well as Andy Scott-Lee, and the group
Tricolore. She has constantly claimed she has a recording
contract though many in the music industry apparently connected
with Katie deny this. She also admits the Eurovision was a
mistake and is one of few regrets of her current career.
Katie and husband Peter Andre released a duets album on 27
November 2006 titled 'A Whole New World' with all proceedings
going to their chosen charities due to the poor health
conditions of Katie's son Harvey. The album debuted at #20 in
the UK album chart. The album went gold in two weeks selling
100,000 copies.
PERSONAL LIFE
As her career began to blossom, Katie embarked on several brief
relationships with celebrities and sports stars including
footballers Teddy Sheringham, and Dwight Yorke, and a more
serious relationship with the TV Gladiator 'Ace' (real name
Warren Foreman). Despite Kate's declaration of love for the
Gladiator star, the relationship didn't last. She has
subsequently attributed the break-up to Warren's severe jealousy
of all the male attention she received.
Katie also had a much publicised relationship with Dane Bowers
of the boy band Another Level. She traumatically had an abortion
after discovering he had cheated on her.
On May 27, 2002, she gave birth to a baby boy, whom she named
Harvey Daniel; choosing the name Harvey after her grandfather,
and Daniel after her brother. Harvey's father is the Sunderland
footballer Dwight Yorke, although just as during her previous
pregnancy, the relationship ended before the child was born.
Katie has said she intended to have the birth shown live over
the Internet, but changed her mind later and decided to keep it
private. Harvey was born at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in
Brighton, his birth being induced as he was two weeks overdue.
He was found to be blind, having a condition known as septo-optic
dysplasia, meaning that his optic nerve hadn't developed
correctly. Harvey has had multiple stays in hospital including
most recently on New Years Eve following an accident at their
home
That same year, Katie was treated for cancer. She had a
leiomyosarcoma on her finger, this being a rare form of
malignant tumour which attacks smooth muscle tissue and can
spread around the body. She had it removed at a Nuffield
Hospital near her Brighton home.
Despite her health scares, Katie managed to keep the British
press happy in 2002 with the revelation that she had embarked on
a secret sexual relationship with Gareth Gates (the then 17 year
old pop-star of Pop Idol fame), whilst she was 4 months pregnant
with her son Harvey.
Katie's relationship with Peter Andre seems to have resurrected
both of their careers. Kate's antics in the jungle meant that
she was rarely out of the British press at this time. In
February 2005 she announced that she was 5 months pregnant, with
Peter André's child. Katie gave birth by Caesarean section to
her second child, a 5lb 13oz boy named Junior Savva Andreas, on
13 June 2005. On September 10, 2005, she married André at
Highclere Castle, Hampshire. In July 2006, it was announced that
she had sadly suffered a miscarriage - she was three and a half
months pregnant.
On 29 June 2007 Katie gave birth to her third child, a daughter
named Princess Tiáamii.
In November 2006 she and her husband released a CD of duets to
raise money for various charities. In 2007, and Katie appeared
on the British young people's rich list which estimated her to
be worth £30 million, ranking the 17th richest young person in
Britain.Courtesy of
Wikipedia. Some editing done by me.
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