Katie Price has heartbreakingly suffered a miscarriage after falling pregnant over Christmas.
The 46-year-old model is mum to five children, including Harvey, 22, Junior and Princess, who she shares with Peter Andre, and her youngest two, Jett and Bunny, from her marriage to Kieran Hayler.
I’m A Celebrity star Katie has been vocal in recent years about wanting to try for another baby, and previously enlisted a surrogate to carry her next child.
It’s now been reported that she and Married At First Sight star JJ Slater, who she began dating in January 2024, fell pregnant unexpectedly over Christmas, but scans from earlier this month revealed she’d lost the baby.
Katie is now teaming up with baby loss charity Tommy’s to raise awareness for grieving mums.
A source told The Sun: ‘Kate and JJ are heartbroken – it’s been an incredibly hard past few weeks, with emotions ranging from utter joy to complete devastation.’
Katie has suffered from three prior miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy.
In a recent Channel 4 documentary, Katie Price: Making Babies, the star revealed her vulnerable side as it explored her struggles to conceive with then-boyfriend Carl Woods.
She told of her struggles of getting pregnant and failed rounds of IVF, and vowed to ‘defy the odds’ before undergoing a surgical operation to retrieve eggs after taking multiple hormone injections.
In the two-part programme, which was filmed in 2023, Katie says she is ‘really deflated’ after two of her eggs are successfully harvested and one is fertilised, but she finds out it is unsuccessful and that she isn’t pregnant.
She later says ‘it’s not the end of the world’ and considers a donor egg with Carl, but the couple split before the egg implantation.
‘I’m exhausted with relationships, when I look back at how the IVF journey was, a lot of times I wasn’t happy,’ she adds.
After undergoing counselling and saying how ‘blessed’ she is to have five children, Katie says: ‘I’ve had a turbulent time, but I’ve reset the button.’
In an interview last year, Katie spoke about wanting to expand her family, saying: ‘If I could have another two or three, I’d be happy.’
She’s also been open about fertility struggles and undergoing IVF before the documentary, saying on Michelle Visage’s podcast: ‘I tried IVF last year and it failed, so I’m going to try again, try again.
‘I’m not giving up. I need more babies.’
Katie welcomed her first child, Harvey, in 2002 and has become his primary carer. Harvey was born with with Prader-Willi Syndrome, autism, and septo-optic dysplasia, a condition that affects brain function. His dad is former footballer Dwight Yorke, who initially denied paternity of him.
Katie also has four other children, Junior, 19 and Princess, 17, with Peter Andre, as well as Jett, 11 and Bunny, 10, with her now ex-husband Kieran Hayler.
Metro has approached Katie’s reps for comment.
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