Model and TV personality Katie Price has opened up about her very first relationship with a jealous man 10 years her senior, who would cut off her clothes when she was just 15, she said
Katie Price’s trauma stems from childhood experiences with angry, jealous and perverted men, she has revealed in her most explosive interview yet.
The mum-of-five, who revealed she is in perimenopause at the age of 46, opened up about her first relationship aged 15, when she met a man 10 years her senior. Katie, who was then known as Katrina Infield – her birth name – was still in school at the time, and was picked up by an ex-prisoner who had his own Ford Fiesta XR2.
“My first boyfriend, I was 15 and he was 25,” she told Paul Brunson on a special episode of his podcast We Need To Talk. “He was always p****d. He’d just come out of prison.”
Katie’s mum Amy Price was understandably worried for her daughter and tried to stop her from going out with the older man – but Katie would pick fights with her and go out anyway, she said.
“My mum was nuts, but I denied it to her,” Katie recalled. “I argued with mum, ‘I’m going out, he’s picking me up’, and now I look back, thinking my mum was stopping me, but she wasn’t, she was protecting me.”
Katie didn’t have sex with her boyfriend until she was 16, after her mum begged her not to lose her virginity. “We didn’t have sex until my 16th birthday, after the East 17 concert,” Katie laughed. “My mum always said, ‘Don’t ever lose your virginity, make sure you’re at least 16.'”
But their relationship quickly soured as the older man would fly into jealous rages if he thought Katie was even looking at other men, she claimed. “The amount of times my mum had to pick me up, where he’d cut all my clothes off and I was naked in a telephone box, ‘Mum, he’s done it again. Pick me up’,” Katie revealed.
“If I was in a petrol station or anything, he’d be like, ‘are you looking at those men?’ I’d be like, ‘no, no, I’m not looking’. So I’d sit like that [head down] facing forwards. So jealous.”
Mum Amy was forced to take action to get her child away from the controlling boyfriend, and called Child Protection and the police to get him away from Katie. “I was training to be a nurse, because that’s what I wanted to do, be a registered nurse. But before I did the course, I worked in these nursing homes. I was like 16, and they had to call the police on him. These are memories that I’ve got, a big police van, him kicking off because he thought I fancied a guy that worked there,” Katie remembered.
“Oh my god, it took ages to get out of that relationship. It was dreadful. But I was so sucked into like, yeah, he’s older with the car. And it was near the end of my school years.”
Amy was right to be protective of her daughter – when Katie was seven, she was sexually assaulted in a park by a man who pulled her into a bush, she said.
“Basically a man did something to me, and I remember all the police being called. They took all our underwear and everything. He [the stranger who assaulted her] was basically saying to us, if you let me do this to you, I’ll go and get you an ice cream and all of this,” Katie recalled. “So that was my first, I suppose, traumatic thing with a man.”
Katie was later groomed by a photographer who took bikini pictures of her when she was just 13, after her mum had allowed her to do a photoshoot at his house.
“He was saying to my mum, ‘I’ve got these child model agencies, blah, blah, blah, we should go into modelling. Why don’t you come to mine? I’ll do a photo shoot.’ So we’d go to his house, a few times I went, but he’d never let my mum watch,” said Katie.
The photographer would make a pineapple milkshake and tempt her to drink it, while telling Katie’s mum and nan to take their dog out for a walk around the block.
“I didn’t like it, so I actually never drank it. And he’d tell my mum and my nan to just go and walk the dog and then come back. Then when we look at the pictures, I was in bikinis, sunglasses, doing all of this, sticking my tongue out, all of that,” said Katie.
“He’d always ring my mum and always speak to me, but it seemed so professional. Then we had a knock at the door, and it was the Child Protection. He’d been arrested. He had like, 12 different names, 12 different accounts, and he was in prison, and they said he was so obsessed with me that he had pictures of me in his cell. And this drink, he used to drug girls with it but I never took the drink.”
On a third occasion in her younger years, a man tried to pull her into his car, she said.
“I hadn’t really had good experiences just from them three things. I can see all three faces as clear as day,” Katie added.