Inside Katie Price’s ‘not-so-lavish’ lifestyle from £1.4k-a-night Maldives retreat to new veneers & £400 kids’ gifts
SHE has denied living a “lavish lifestyle” – despite video-calling in to her bankruptcy hearing from a £1,400-a-night Maldives holiday.
Yet Katie Price’s ‘baby-making’ five-star retreat on the stunning archipelago is just the latest in a string of luxuries the mum of five has enjoyed.
While some of the luxuries may have been sponsored and not come directly from Katie’s purse, they jar with the 42-year-old’s debt-ridden reality.
In the 11 months since she was declared bankrupt, Katie has enjoyed six holidays – including a luxury trip to Thailand, skiing in the French Alps, a holiday to Spain to see mum Amy, and a romantic cabin break in Shropshire with boyfriend Carl Woods, who is also in the Maldives with her.
She’s also splashed the cash on new veneers, maintaining her £2million ‘mucky mansion’, and on a £400 birthday gift for her son Junior in June.
And earlier this month, after breaking both her feet, she was spotted hitting the shops in her mobility scooter, picking up a new pair of trainers.
She and Carl, 31, also tried on expensive watches and designer sneakers at Selfridges, before leaving the store with an armful of big shopping bags.
And it’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Katie’s envy-inducing lifestyle.
While most cash-strapped mums are lucky to get a few days at the British seaside, the former glamour model enjoyed six breaks costing around £25,000 in just eight months between 2018 and 2019.
Luxury holidays ‘for business’
Appearing at an insolvency court via Skype this week, Katie insisted that “90 per cent” of her getaways are for business and she doesn’t live lavishly.
During chaotic proceedings plagued with technical difficulties, the embattled model also said: “I appreciate I haven’t been easy to contact.
“I have been places physically and emotionally.”
Katie, who was once worth £45million, was officially declared bankrupt in November last year after failing to pay back spiralling debts.
She had narrowly avoided going bust a year earlier – but despite her money struggles, the surgery-loving star continued to live the high life.
6 getaways since bankruptcy
Last September, Katie’s kids Bunny and Jett – whom she shares with ex Kieran Hayler – missed their first day back at school after she took them on a family holiday to Turkey, where she also had a surgical consultation.
And since her bankruptcy, she has enjoyed six more getaways – including jetting back to Thailand to celebrate the New Year with son Harvey, 18.
The star’s exes Kieran and Peter Andre had reportedly banned her from taking the rest of her brood in case they returned late and missed school.
“Katie is desperate for a holiday and has given herself the first two weeks off work to go away and get a tan,” a source told The Sun at the time.
“But Kieran and Pete weren’t keen on her taking the kids away on a long haul holiday. Katie is always a bit disorganised when it comes to booking return flights, especially if she’s talked a friend into paying for them.”
‘Superstar’ lifestyle
In the eight months leading up to March 2019, Katie also jetted nearly 15,000 miles on six holidays – including a ‘£11,000’ retreat in Ko Samui, Thailand.
During her time at the island’s exclusive Ammatara Pura Pool Villas – where plush double beach side rooms, including breakfast, can top £6,300 for seven nights – Katie posed for a racy series of topless snaps.
Other holidays have reportedly involved £350 bottles of champagne, paddle boarding, chauffeur-driven cars – and even Katie’s own personal chef.
“She fancied a croissant one morning for breakfast, but there weren’t any, so got his chef to make fresh ones for her,” one witness claimed, after Katie holidayed in Majorca with her then-squeeze Alex Adderson.
“She was living like a superstar.”
Swanky £100k cars
Closer to home, Katie has enjoyed a string of luxury vehicles, including a pink Range Rover which she is thought to have snapped up for £75,000.
Katie has been accused of “hiding” the eye-catching car – which she attempted to flog to her friends for £90,000 last year – from bailiffs.
Yet she says she only didn’t declare it as it’s “worthless and unroadworthy”, telling her bankruptcy hearing she’d considered selling it for scrap.
Pricey also tried to sell her Barbie jeep on eBay last year, after being banned from driving for three months. She had admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance while with two of her children.
And in a recent Instagram snap, the star, who is banned from driving again, shared an old picture of herself driving a swanky £100,000 white Bentley.
“Loved my white Bentley can’t wait to drive again soooon,” she gushed.
£2m ‘mucky mansion’
While Katie might be eager to return to driving, she refuses to move back into her £2million Sussex mansion, which she has dubbed ‘Priceywood’.
She’s been living in a £4,250-a-month rented mansion with six bedrooms during the Covid pandemic while her ‘mucky mansion’ is being renovated.
Yet Katie’s reps told Ok! magazine in April that the star “is not paying the rent on this property” and that any suggestion of that “is absurd!”
Pricey hopes to sell her mansion after renovating it – but in the meantime, she doesn’t seem to have hesitated to splash out on extravagant gifts for her loved ones.
Lavish birthday celebrations
Amid her financial woes, in June the model pulled out all the stops for son Junior’s 15th birthday celebrations – with balloon displays and two cakes.
She also forked out on custom wrapping paper, a pair of swish Adidas trainers, and a £399 Oculus Quest VR gaming headset for her boy.
In video footage of the celebrations, Junior was seen giving his proud mum a hug, exclaiming: “15 is a dead birthday, and I got all this?
“I’m so shocked, I’m so shocked – I didn’t expect this.”
Katie joked back: “Wait for your 16th, you might get a car.”
£4k on Xmas gifts
The TV personality had previously spoiled her kids for Christmas 2018 when she spent a pocket-burning £4,000 in a Brighton toy store.
She struggled to fit the gifts into her 4×4, with her haul of scooters, doll houses, singing machines and other toys crammed into six trolleys.
And a year earlier, Katie had splurged around £77,000 on a secondhand Audi R8 Spyder (worth over £100,000 new) for ex Kieran’s 30th birthday.
However, she kept the vehicle registered in her name and took it back off love rat Kieran after she caught him cheating with their nanny.
She later decided to sell it to recoup some of the cash.
Expensive new teeth
Aside from holidays, cars and gifts, generous Pricey has spent a fortune on cosmetic treatments over the years – most recently, getting new veneers.
The star showed off her pearly whites on Instagram from the Maldives last week, after she and boyfriend Carl got matching veneers in Turkey in July.
Yet it hasn’t been plain sailing – as some of Katie’s teeth have fallen out.
An insider told Sun Online: “You can’t see from the front, but before the holiday a few of her veneers fell out. She literally spat them out! She was horrified as now the veneers are loose on the pegs and she’s got a gap.”
The star’s now planning a return trip to Turkey to sort out the issue.
Though the cost of her latest veneer work is unknown, she and her ex Kris Boyson reportedly forked out £7,000 each on matching veneers last year.
In recent weeks, Katie has had to furiously deny claims she’s planning more surgery to “cheer herself up” after breaking her feet on holiday in Turkey.
Reports claimed the miserable mum wanted a face and neck lift, Botox, fillers and new breast implants – yet Katie’s rep dismissed them.
The rep told us in September: “Katie cannot undergo any surgery at this current point as she is on blood thinners. With the risk of dying on the table, it would never be an option, nor would any surgeon offer.”
As well as her surgical treatments, Katie is believed to spend a fortune on regular facials, massages and up to two pedicures and manicures a week.
But these luxuries could come to an end – as the star told her hearing this week she has a new accountant to help her sort through her outgoings.
Katie also said she was seeing a therapist and apologised for “not being in the right mind to understand everything that’s been going on”.
Today, the model continues to live it up in the Maldives with Carl, where they’ve enjoyed jet-skiing, sandy beaches and some underwater dining.
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She has even extended the trip – which she claims is a “work assignment” – by a week, amid claims she’s seeking content for her YouTube channel.
Despite her money worries, Katie has been sharing envy-inducing images from the archipelago on Instagram, telling fans she’s “peaceful”.
Though her financial future may be uncertain, one thing is clear: she’s got Pricey taste.
Sun Online has contacted Katie’s reps for comment.