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Katie Price (Jordan)
Birthdate: May 22, 1978 (1978-05-22) (age 29)
Birth location: Brighton, England
Measurements: 32G-24-30, Size 6[1]
Hair color: Brunette / Blonde
Natural bust: No
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Alias(es): Jordan

Katie Price (born Katrina Amy Alexis Infield on May 22, 1978 in Brighton) is an 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.

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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.[2][3] 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 modeling came after a friend suggested she 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.

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[citation needed]. 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.

  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 58 November 1997 — Byron Newman, pages 24-25.
  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 59 January 1998 — Byron Newman, pages 84-89.
  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 60 March 1998 — pages 44–47.
  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 61 May 1998 — pages 34–35.
  • Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 65 January 1999 — pages 22–23.
  • Playboy's Voluptuous Vixens Vol. 7 April 2003 — cover.

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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.[4] In the end, Jordan won 713 votes[5], 1.8% of the votes cast.

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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. 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.

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 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 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.

A chat show, Katie and Peter: Unleashed is currently being screened weekly on ITV2 as part of a six figure exclusive, "golden handcuffs" deal with the network.

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.

She currently presents, along with Peter, "Katie and Peter: Unleashed", a chat show on ITV2 in the UK.

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.[6] 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.

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. [7] The album went gold in two weeks selling 190,000 copies, including 81,296 in it's first week.

To coincide with her appearance on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! earlier in the year, Price released the first of two autobiographies – Being Jordan – in May 2004. Initially turned down by the mainstream publishing houses after demanding a £1 million advance, she was eventually signed up by small independent publisher John Blake, a former tabloid journalist, for £10,000 plus royalties. In a departure from industry norms, she conducted a 10 day book signing tour which provoked enough interest, contrary to expectations, almost exclusively female, to propel her to first position in the Nielsen BookScan hardback sales chart and to sell 97,090 copies in little over a year and over one million, as of January 2007. [8][9][10][11]

Her second autobiography – Jordan: A Whole New World – detailing her wedding and family life reached number two in the hardback general category, selling 198,105 copies by 1 April 2006.[12]

Her first ghostwritten novel Angel, about a young woman who becomes a model, was published in June 2006, and sold 300,000 copies in six weeks.[13]

Her second ghostwritten novel Crystal, about a young womans efforts to become a singer, released in June 2007 had sold 159,407 copies three months later in September 2007.[13]

All four book being ghostwritten by Rebecca Farnworth[14][15]

In 2006 Price signed a £300,000 advance with Random House for Katie Price's Perfect Ponies, a series of children’s books, released in 2007.[16][9]

Bibliography –

  • Being Jordan (06.05.2004)
  • Being Jordan [paperback edition] (01.07.2005)
  • Jordan: A Whole New World (26.01.2006)
  • Angel (06.07.2006)
  • Jordan: A Whole New World [paperback edition] (01.03.2007)
  • Crystal [hardback edition] (01.06.2007)
  • Katie Price's Perfect Ponies [paperback edition] (01.06.2007)

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 early 2007, Price was announced as the new face of Foxy Bingo.

In October 2006, an article was published in The Daily Mail called The Chav Rich List. 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 £30 million and rising, Price currently stands as one of the richest women in Britain.[19]

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).[20] 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.[20]

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.[21] He was found to be blind, having a condition known as septo-optic dysplasia, meaning that his optic nerve hadn't developed correctly.[20] Harvey has had multiple stays in hospital including most recently on New Years Eve following an accident at their home.[22]

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.[23]

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.[24]

Price's relationship with Andre seems to have resurrected both of their careers. Price'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. 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.[25]

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.'[26][27]She and Peter purchased a house in Woldingham, Surrey in November 2007.

She is a knowledgeable horsewoman.[16]

A Whole New World

  1. ^ "Our Supporting Role", by Sarah Arnold, Sunday Mirror, November 19, 2006. Archived on FindArticles.com. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
  2. ^ Leslie Bunder (2006-11-24). Price is right. somethingjewish.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
  3. ^ "Ms Price, who is halachically Jewish...", the Jewish Chronicle, 2006-11-24, pp. 1. Retrieved on 2006-11-27. 
  4. ^ Jordan Presses the Flesh. BBC (2001-5-31). Retrieved on 2007-4-18.
  5. ^ Independent Doctor Triumphs. BBC (2001-06-08). Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  6. ^ Javine wins UK Eurovision contest. BBC Online (2005-03-05). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  7. ^ a b BBC Radio1 Album chart of December 3, 2006 Accessed: December 4, 2006
  8. ^ Barkham, Patrick. "I'm famous, buy me", The Guardian, 15 January 2007. 
  9. ^ a b Kean, Danuta. "Bookshop Bingo!", Independent on Sunday, FindArticles.com, 24 September 2006. 
  10. ^ "Hardback general", The Times, 29 May 2004. 
  11. ^ Dolby, Trevor (January 2007). Publishing confessions. Prospect Magazine.
  12. ^ "The Sunday Times bestsellers", The Sunday Times, 9 April 2006. 
  13. ^ a b Lusher, Adam. "Man Booker Prize 2007: Why Jordan is better read than Ian McEwan", The Daily Telegraph, 23 September 2007. 
  14. ^ Tim Adams. "The pen pushers", The Observer, 19 March 2006. 
  15. ^ Carol Midgley. "Let’s hear it for Katie Price, role model", Times Online, 19 July 2007. 
  16. ^ a b Forrest, Susanna. "Why girls still sign up for the pony club", The Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2007. 
  17. ^ Thomas, Lesley. "Jordan? Woman of the year? Are we mad?", The Daily Telegraph, 11 November 2007. 
  18. ^ Jordan Wins Grattan Celebrity Mum Award. Daily Mirror (2007-03-15). Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
  19. ^ Natasha Pearlman (2006-10-06). The Chav Rich List. The Daily Mail. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
  20. ^ a b c Catherine Deveney (2006-02-05). Two faces of Jordan. The Scotsman. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  21. ^ Jordan keeps baby Harvey under wraps. The Argus (2002-05-28). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  22. ^ Jordan's fear for burnt child. The Sun (U.K.) (2007-01-02). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  23. ^ Jordan treated for cancer. BBC Online (2002-08-11). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  24. ^ Now yer talking again, Gareth. The Sun (2007-02-22). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  25. ^ Kristina Pedersen (2006-07-20). Jordan's tragic miscarriage. The Daily Mail. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
  26. ^ Jordan decides on daughter's name. BBC News (2007-07-24). Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
  27. ^ Jordan and Peter named their baby Princess Tiaamii. Cool Approach (2007-07-28).

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