Katie Price Biography

Birth Name : Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield

Height : 5' 4" (1.63 m)

Born: 22 May 1978

Birthplace: Brighton, Sussex, England

Best Known As: The U.K. tabloid model known as "Jordan"

Price was born in the town of Brighton, located in Sussex, England, on May 22, 1978. She changed her birth surname, Infield, to Price after her father left and her mother remarried. Talented at swimming, gymnastics, and horseback riding, Price opted for modeling after a friend's suggestion led to her being discovered by a modeling agency. It was there that she signed on with the Sun.

Katie Price started her career about 17 years ago, when one of her friends persuaded her to go for a professional photo shoot. To her surprise, she got a contract from the modeling agency. Subsequently, she appeared on Page 3 of the Sun newspaper for the first time. It was during this time that she took up the pseudonym Jordan. Since then, she was regularly featured in celebrity magazines and British tabloid newspapers.

Though she became a well-known model, Katie Price was very insecure about her figure. Although all her close friends and family members did not support her decision, she went for a series of operations for breast enlargement. Due to this decision, she lost the contract with Sun newspaper as the company policy required all their models to be silicone-free.

Katie Price wanted to try her hand at acting. So, in 1998, she auditioned for a role in Baywatch, which turned out to be unsuccessful. In 2002, she appeared in Playboy magazine for the first time. Until then, she had already appeared on the cover of six volumes of the same magazine.

In 2001, she had a brief affair with Dwight Yorke, a footballer who played for Manchester United at that time. The following year, she gave birth to their son, Harvey Daniel, who was born blind due to a condition called septo-optic dysplasia. She was diagnosed with cancer (leiomyosarcoma) in the same year. Katie Price underwent a surgery for treating the same.

In early 2004, she appeared on the reality TV show, "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!". It was during this show that she met her first husband Peter Andre, an Australian-English pop singer. She married him in September 2005, and the same year, they had their first child Junior. In 2007, they have their second child Princess Tiamii. Katie Price marriage to Peter Andre lasted till 2009.

Jordan is now known as one of London's bad girls, as the paparazzi has often captured many of her public antics throughout Europe's nightclub scene. Her life in the public eye has been turbulent. Many relationships have been well-publicized, as well as ailments and complications with pregnancies. A tryst with British singer Dane Bowers led her to have an abortion. Her first child was born blind, having an undeveloped optic nerve, and many blame her drinking habits during the pregnancy. She also had a malignant tumor removed from one of her fingers.

Following in the footsteps of other aspiring British girls determined not to let a lack of talent impede the way to stardom, Katie Price (aka Jordan) rose to fame in 1996 after being featured on the infamous Page 3 in the London-based Sun newspaper. She has since become a staple of British tabloids, only now she makes headlines rather than simply posing next to them. In May of 2009, Katie Price made the tabloids yet again, this time due to her divorce from Peter Andre. Throw in the fact that Andre allegedly filed for divorce due to Price's drinking habit, and we have a feeling Price is going to be a tabloid staple a la Britney Spears post-Kevin Federline for the next while.