Katie Price has had enough of the whispers. The former glamour model, once a tabloid fixture, is done with people worrying about her shrinking frame. So she did something bold: she stepped onto the scales and shared the number with the world.
On Tuesday, the 47-year-old posted a photo of her pedicured feet resting on a bathroom scale. The caption was direct, almost defiant: “Everyone mentioning my weight here you go I’m healthy. 7 stone 12 pounds, I’ve put on weight.” Her husband, Lee Andrews, shared the same image.
This wasn’t just a vanity post. For months, fans had watched her grow thinner, their concern turning into fear. Last year, she checked into a hospital after accidentally stabbing herself while chopping food in the kitchen. That visit triggered something deeper: doctors ordered blood tests to investigate her unexplained weight loss.
“I’ve been up early at the doctors so she could do some bloods – and because my veins are so bad. They had three attempts. They could only fill two tubes up, so I’ve got to go back in two weeks,” she revealed. “The reason I’m going to the doctors is because I keep losing weight, and I don’t know why. So that’s that.”
By January, the investigation was still open. On her podcast, Katie admitted, “There is obviously something wrong with me.” She insisted she ate everything in sight but still couldn’t keep the pounds on. She knew she looked “gaunt.”
Then came a shift. In February, she posted a video from Dubai, smiling next to Lee, whom she calls “a feeder.” She announced she had gained half a stone. “It goes to show, that when you’re happy…” she trailed off. She turned to Lee and said, “I can’t stop eating.” He smirked: “You eat a lot.” She replied, “I’m just comfy.”
But beneath the triumph of a rising number on the scale lies a woman who has spent a fortune trying to love what she sees in the mirror. Over £100,000 on plastic surgery — six facelifts, 17 breast augmentations, three Brazilian Butt Lifts, dental work, a fox eye procedure — and still, she’s not satisfied. Last month in Dubai, she tried “butterfly” lip tweakments, only to complain the results looked like “a cat’s bum hole.”
In a recent vlog, her friend Ben told her bluntly to “pack it in” with the surgeries and learn to love herself. Katie pushed back: “But that is not exactly surgery, that is fixing a problem.” She admitted her lips looked “wonky” and “like a cat’s bum hole.” Then came the raw confession: “I do [love myself]. I am the best person ever inside, I just don’t like what I look like.”
