Katie Price | |
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Katie Price pictured in 2014
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Born |
Katrina Amy Alexandra Alexis Infield 22 May 1978 Brighton, England, United Kingdom |
Residence | West Sussex |
Nationality | British |
Other names |
Jordan (pseudonym) Katie Andre (married name) Katie Reid (married name) Katie Hayler (married name) |
Occupation | Businesswoman, singer, television personality, novelist, glamour model |
Years active | 1996–present |
Net worth |
£40 million (US$66.76 million) (est.) |
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
Spouse(s) |
Peter Andre (m. 2005–09) Alex Reid (m. 2010–11) Kieran Hayler (m. 2013) |
Children | 5 |
Website | katieprice |
Katie Price (born Katrina Amy Alexandra Alexis Infield; 22 May 1978), previously known by the pseudonym Jordan, is an English television personality and glamour model.
Her time as topless female glamour model in a pictorial Page 3 in British tabloid newspaper The Sun shot Price into the limelight. Her placement in the public spotlight allowed Price to expand into a variety of different industries including television, books, fashion and music.
Price has had many highly publicised relationships and has been married three times, to singer Peter Andre (2005–2009), to professional fighter Alex Reid (2010–2011) and to builder and part-time stripper Kieran Hayler (2013–). In April 2012, Price's net worth was estimated at £45 million.
Born in 1978 in Brighton, East Sussex, southeast England, Katie Price was the only child of Amy (née Charlier) and Ray Infield. Her father left the family when she was four, and in 1988 her mother married builder Paul Price, after which she acquired the surname Price. From two of her mother's other's marriages, she has an older half-brother named Daniel and a younger half-sister named Sophie. Her maternal grandmother was Jewish, but she is not religious.
Price attended Blatchington Mill School and, although not an academic student, she excelled at sport, swimming for Sussex in regional competitions. During her childhood, she also developed a passion for horses and horse-riding. At age seven, Price was molested by a man in a park's bushes. She began modelling as a child, and at 13 she modelled for a clothing line—although, unknown to her, the project's photographer was a convicted paedophile and insisted on shooting her in her underwear. Price left school at 16 in 1994.
At a friend's suggestion, Price had professional photographs taken and decided to pursue a modelling career. The pictures were sent to a modelling agency in London, and in 1996 she was offered a job at Page 3, a topless female glamour model pictorial in British tabloid newspaper The Sun. She adopted the name Jordan in 1996 and made frequent appearances as a model on both Page Three and in men's lifestyle magazines.