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About Katie

Katie Price (born May 22, 1978 in Brighton) is better known as the big breasted English glamour model, television personality, magazine columnist and businesswoman also known as Jordan. Her personal life is regularly featured in British tabloids and celebrity-based magazines. She is married to pop singer Peter André and has three children.

Early Years:
Katie 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 modeling came after a friend suggested she should have some professional photographs done. The pictures were sent to a modeling 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 modeling). It was at this time that she assumed the name 'Jordan' when somebody in the photoshoot 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. Her parents, friends, and photographers with whom she had worked were against the idea. Nevertheless, the operation went ahead, and her cup size increased from a B to a E. 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 modeling 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 modeling to other areas, Jordan (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.

Jordan appeared in six volumes of Playboy's Book of Lingerie from 1997 to 1999.

Jordan has also appeared on the covers of FHM, Maxim, Nuts, Front, Zoo Weekly, Sky, Esquire, Loaded and Ice magazines.

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.


TV Shows: Jordan (now preferring to be known to the public as Katie Price while not modeling) began 2004 by appearing on the reality TV series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, alternately falling out with John Lydon and flirting in the jungle with singer Peter Andre whom she eventually married. Katie appeared on Top Gear's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on May 23, 2004. She completed the lap in 1:52s. She also made a cameo appearance playing herself in an episode of the television drama series Footballers' Wives and appeared in the programme Jordan Gets Even for Five.

She appeared in the documentaries Jordan: Living Without Fame (Channel 4), Jordan: The Truth About Me, Jordan: Model Mum, Jordan: You Don't Even Know Me (BBC Choice), Jordan Gets Even (Five) and the series When Jordan Met Peter (ITV), Jordan & Peter: Laid Bare (ITV2), Jordan & Peter: Marriage and Mayhem (ITV2), and the Katie & Peter series, including Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter (ITV2) and Katie & Peter: The Baby Diaries.

In summer 2005, Jordan was one of many guest hosts of the first series of The Friday Night Project and later appeared on the cover of Loaded magazine with Carmen Electra.

Price claimed in 2005 that she soon would be retiring her alter-ego Jordan.

In December 2005 she released an exercise fitness DVD The Jordan Workout featuring 'The Juice Master' Jason Vale.

On March 8th, 2006 she appeared on Davina alongside Girls Aloud.

In April 2006 Price appeared in a photo shoot for American Vogue by David Bailey as part of the magazine's Shape issue.

In November 2006, Katie Price appeared on the front cover of British Elle magazine.

Price continues to write a regular advice column in OK! magazine and has previously contributed to More and The Sun.

In 2007 along with husband Peter, she presented "Katie and Peter: Unleashed", a chat show on ITV2 in the UK.


Jobs & Work:
Katie has had a lot of success with her books, perfume, underware, hair products, and many more. She has released 2 novels called Angel and Crystal both being a great success and are very good books to read.


Personal Life:
Katie's career began to blossom, Jordan 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 Furman). Despite Jordan's declaration of love for the Gladiator star, the relationship didn't last. Jordan has subsequently attributed the break-up to Warren's severe jealousy of all the male attention she received.

Jordan had a much publicised relationship with Dane Bowers of the boy band Another Level. She 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. Jordan 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, Jordan 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.

Katie's relationship with Andre seems to have resurrected both of their careers. Katie's antics meant that she was rarely out of the British press at this time. In February 2005 Price announced that she was 5 months pregnant, with Peter André's child. She 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. Katie married André at Highclere Castle, Hampshire. In July 2006, it was announced that she had suffered a miscarriage - she was three and a half months pregnant.

On 29 June 2007 Price gave birth to her third child, a daughter named Princess Tiáamii.

Katie and her husband Peter are now working on their new chat show 'Katie and Peter: Unleashed.' She and Peter purchased a house in Woldingham, Surrey in November 2007.

In December 2007, Katie underwent surgery in the U.S. to reduce the size of her breast implants. However, she was not happy with the size and look of them, and she is returned to the U.S. in Summer 2008 to have them reduced further.

It is said that Katie said that she and her husband will renew their wedding vows in September 2008.


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