Katie Price Calls Marriage to Lee Andrews Healthiest Yet

has insisted that her marriage to husband is the 'healthiest' relationship she's ever been in and has said she loves him as he has his own money and isn't 'in and out of her pockets'.

The former glamour model, 48, was chatting on Josh Smith's Great Chat Show podcast on Tuesday ahead of her new Sky docuseries which documents her tumultuous life and series of romances - including with .

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Since he has been arrested and imprisoned for fraud but Katie has stood by him, explaining why she loves him so much in the new podcast. 

She told host Josh: 'I know you're not going to think it, but the one I'm in now is the healthiest relationship I've been in. I don't need Lee, I want Lee, and there's a massive difference. 

'He's got his own thing going on, he's very intelligent, and he's older, whereas I've always gone for younger. 

'I'm comfy, he's not in and out of my pockets. I'm just used to men who end up being like a puppy dog, no conversation, no get up and go, no drive, and in the end they become my sixth child. 

'Lee's not like that. He sees me as me, not a product, and he doesn't take any s**t, and I love that.'

Katie - who has been married four times and engaged nine times - added of her change in approach to dating: 'Two years ago I did relationship therapy, learning about red flags and healthy relationships because I've always been in toxic, controlling, jealousy, coercive mental abuse, physical abuse, relationships. 

'All of them have been like that. So I did relationship therapy and I always needed a man. Nowadays I don't need a man. If I want a man, it's because I want them, not because I need them.'

In the podcast she also reflected on her relationship with pop star Gareth Gates - who agreed to appear in her new docuseries. 

The former glamour model was 21 years old and six months pregnant with her son Harvey when she took the pop star's virginity.

Gareth, then 17, denied the relationship but later conceded it was true assuming it was Katie who had sold the story to the press. 

She speaks in the documentary about selling the story about their romance but says she now feels bad looking back.

Katie told host Josh: 'That was 25 years ago [Gareth Gates] and he's never done an interview about us, never ever. So when I found out they had [interviewed him for the documentary], I was like, 'what did he say about me?' 

'I was so intrigued. I've now found out 25 years later why he ghosted me, and I've waited 25 years to know that. Watching it back, it's actually really sad what happened between us. If I could sit with him now, I'd love to sit with him and talk, because he's an adult now and we were both young, really just kids at the time. 

'I would want to say sorry to him. Looking back, I wish I never put the story out there, and I'm sorry it hurt him.'