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Katie Price (born Katrina Alexandra
Infield on May 22, 1978) is an English glamour model,
television personality, magazine columnist and
businesswoman commonly 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 life: 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. Price 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 modeling). It was at this time
that she assumed the name 'Jordan'.
Career: 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.
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".
Jordan appeared in six volumes of Playboy's Book of
Lingerie from 1997 to 1999. Jordan has also graced 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.
During the June 7, 2001, British General Election,
Jordan 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,
Jordan won 713 votes, 1.8% of the votes cast.
Jordan (now preferring to be known to the public as
Katie Price while not modelling) 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. Price
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.
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 catsuit 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.
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 Jordan image. In May 2004, she published her
autobiography, Being Jordan, to surprisingly positive
reviews; it became a massive best-seller and the 4th
best-selling autobiography of all time in the UK.
Jordan: A Whole New World, her second autobiography, was
released January 2006 and has so far sold nearly 400,000
copies. Her first autobiography has sold 500,000 copies
so far, while the second sold 300,000[citation needed]
within just the first 6 weeks of its release.
In December 2005 she released the best selling fitness
DVD The Jordan Workout featuring 'The Juice Master'
Jason Vale.
On the 8th March 2006 she appeared on Davina (talk show)
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 summer 2006 she announced she was planning to flaunt
her talents across the Atlantic and appeared on USA TV
channel E!. She was only given a controversial five
minutes of interviewing time and faced mixed reactions
from American audiences.
In Summer 2006 the novel Angel, a work of fiction, by
Katie Price was published and hit the best-selling lists
across the country.
In November 2006 Katie Price launched The Katie Price
Lingerie Collection in conjunction with Panache
available exclusively at Asda stores nationwide. In 2006
the 'Jordan At Asda ' jewellery range was launched, as
well as a follow-up jewellery deal with Argos.
In November 2006, Katie Price appeared on the front
cover of British Elle magazine.
Jordan and André 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 Jordan's son Harvey. The album debuted at
#20 in the UK album chart. The album went gold in two
weeks selling 100,000 copies.
Price continues to write a regular advice column in OK!
magazine and has previously contributed to More and The
Sun.
A chat show, The Jordan and Peter Show has recently been
commissioned and will be screened on ITV in 2007 as part
of a six figure exclusive, "golden handcuffs"
deal with the network.
In October 2006, an article was published in The Daily
Mail called Britain's Richest celebrity chavs. Price and
her husband Peter Andre were ranked at #2, second only
to David Beckham and Victoria Beckham. The piece claimed
that with an estimated fortune of £30million and
rising, Price currently stands as one of the richest
women in Britain.
In early 2007, Price was announced as the new face of
Foxy Bingo, in March 2007, Price was named Gratan
Celebrity Mum of the year in a nationwide poll and in
April 2007 she appeared on the front cover of the iconic
women's magazine Cosmopolitan.
Later in 2007, Price will release her first children's
book, launch her own signature scent, expand her
lingerie range and begin writing her biopic.
It has recently been announced that the E! network has
bought the rights to screen the Jordan and Peter ITV2
series of programmes on American television. Jordan and
André will star in a reality series aptly titled Katie
& Peter on E! premiering on April 21, 2007.
Personal life: As her 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 Foreman).
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.
Despite her health scares, Jordan 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.
Price's relationship with Andre seemed to have
resurrected both of their careers. Price's antics in the
jungle 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.
Price 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 suffered a
miscarriage - she was three and a half months pregnant.
On 29 June 2007 Price gave birth to her third child.
In November 2006 she and her husband released a CD of
duets to raise money for various charities. In 2007,
Price 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. |
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