In her latest bombshell memoir, Katie Price has opened up about feeling ‘pressured’ to breastfeed her kids by other people – and why she told them to ‘f*** off’
Katie Price has opened up about feeling “pressured” to breastfeed her kids – and why she decided against it.
The 46-year-old former glamour model has given a candid account of her parenting journey in her seventh autobiography, This Is Me, released last week. Katie has five kids in total: 22-year-old Harvey Price (whose dad is Dwight Yorke, although the ex-footballer reportedly has little contact with his son), Junior, 19, and Princess Andre, 17 (who Katie co-parents with her ex-husband Peter Andre), and Jett, 10, and Bunny Hayler, 9 (whom the reality star shares with her ex-husband Kieran Hayler).
Katie’s latest explosive memoir details what went on behind the scenes during her life in the media spotlight. The I’m a Celebrity alum – who rose to fame as glamour model Jordan’ when she was just 17 years old – has opened up about the pressures she faced as a mother in the public eye and why she told people who told her to breastfeed to “f*** off”.
Katie says she now wants to become a mum for the sixth time (
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The star has opened up about her parenting journey (
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In her new book, Katie described how while she was pregnant with Junior, she was “getting pressure from people to have him naturally and to breastfeed”.
Sharing her iconic response, she continued: “My reaction then is the same as it is now: ‘F*** off. Let me do things my own way.”
Katie went on to talk about the stress that new mums are put under to breastfeed and why it should always remain their own decision, penning: “I believe it’s all choice and new mothers should not, under any circumstances, feel the pressure to do something or not something because of what someone else says.”
Katie is currently dating Married at First Sight’s JJ Slater (
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Writing in her characteristically frank tone, Katie said: “When you are a mother you have to do what works best for you,” adding that she refused to be “vilified for choosing to bottle feed” her kids.
It is not the first time Katie has spoken about breastfeeding. Back in 2016, the former Eurovision performer sparked controversy when she claimed she didn’t agree with people putting breastfeeding pictures on social media or mothers feeding in public, such as in restaurants, during her appearance on Loose Women.
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She controversially said she was against women breastfeeding in public (
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Getty Images)Admitting that it might come as a shock after her years of raunchy photoshoots, Katie said: “I don’t agree with people putting up pictures of them breastfeeding. I don’t want to see that, like people probably won’t want to see me, my selfies, my boobs and this and that. [But] if it’s proper out than you can’t help looking. I know it’s a natural thing, but I don’t want to eat my dinner seeing a woman’s boob out.”
In her new memoir, Katie has also shared that she hopes to become a mother for the sixth time – but does not want to have a child with her current boyfriend, 31-year-old Married At First Sight star, JJ Slater. The model claimed that she has an American fertility clinic on speed dial and has already chosen the sperm donor.
