's family have weighed in on her relationship with , saying it was upsetting to witness how she was treated during their four-year marriage.
Katie Prices Family Slams Peter Andres Control
Katie Price's family have weighed in on her relationship with Peter Andre, saying it was upsetting to witness how she was treated during their four-year marriag...
The TV personalities famously said 'I do' in a star-studded affair at Hampshire's Highclere Castle - the setting for hit drama - in September 2005.
It was a star-studded affair, with the likes of , , and serving as bridesmaids, while the ceremony was captured and splashed on the front page of OK! magazine, who reportedly paid £1.75 million for the rights.
Yet despite all the glitz and glamour of the ceremony, Katie was unable to enjoy herself, suffering from postnatal after welcoming son Junior three months prior, while her family branded the day a 'farce'.
Speaking on her new documentary, Katie Price: Nothing To Hide, the glamour model, also detailed the breakdown of their union, saying her relationship with Pete was 'the best time of my life... until things went sour'.
Two years after tying the knot with Peter, Katie welcomed daughter Princess and under the advice of her manager Claire Powell, she began to rebrand as Katie Price.
She shifted away from her pseudonym Jordan and moved towards a more family friendly image to help flog merchandise.
Katie Price's family have weighed in about her relationship with Peter Andre, saying it was upsetting to witness how she was treated during their four-year marriage (pictured on their reality show)
The TV personalities famously said 'I do' in a star-studded affair at Hampshire's Highclere Castle - the setting for hit drama Downton Abbey - in September 2005
Yet while it made her an even bigger star, Katie confessed: 'I missed Jordan.
'I missed my identity of it because as much I loved doing all the Katie Price shoots, they are bloody boring, they suck.
'I love being sexy, that's me. But it started fading away and I sort of hated that. I don't give a f**k about maturing, it's what I enjoy doing.
'It got vanilla and nobody likes vanilla.'
Amy mused: 'She felt quite stifled with Claire and with Pete. He didn't like her drinking, he didn't like her clothes a lot of the time...'
Dan, Katie's brother, added: 'Pete doesn't drink so she couldn't have a drink at home because he probably didn't like it. If Kate was to go out, he probably didn't like it.'
Katie continued: 'It got to the point if I wanted to go out it was a big issue.
'If my friends were going out on the weekend I was like, I've got a week to hint I want to go out. Then I'd end up not doing it because I couldn't be bothered with the arguments.
'All I wanted to do was let my hair down, everyone's allowed to let your hair down.'
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Katie's sister Sophie recalled: 'Things got really intense. It's nuts how toxic it got.'
Things came to a head when they moved to the States, with the breakdown of their marriage playing out on their reality show.
One infamous scene saw Peter brand his then-wife an 'arrogant b***h' in a fiery clash.
During the row Peter declared: 'You're a f*****g idiot, I hope you learn a lesson and come down a peg or two because you're too far up your own a*se.
'You're too up your own a*se, you're a f*****g arrogant b***h, I'm not having her talk to me like that in front of anyone. F*****g idiot, stupid arrogant little f*****g cow.'
Discussing the clip, Amy said: 'It's upsetting when you see that.'
While married to Peter, she shifted away from her pseudonym Jordan and moved towards a more family friendly image to help flog merchandise (pictured in 2007)
Katie's mother Amy mused: 'She felt quite stifled with Claire and with Pete. He didn't like her drinking, he didn't like her clothes a lot of the time...'
Katie also shared more details from their wedding day, admitting she had been unable to enjoy herself on the big day and she was battling postnatal depression at the time
'Because it was an OK! thing you had to have people there to look like they were friends, when of course they weren't,' Katie's stepfather Paul explained (pictured: Jennifer Ellison and Paul Gascoigne arriving at the wedding)
'Because it was an OK! thing you had to have people there to look like they were friends, when of course they weren't,' Paul explained.
'When I was doing the speech I didn't know who I was talking to. I was thinking who are these people? They're not going to know what I'm talking about.'
Katie's mother Amy added: 'It was a bit of a farce, I couldn't take it seriously,' while her sister Sophie recalled: 'the front seats were taken for media not family'.
Kerry Katona was also bemused by the experience, saying: 'it was like Cinderella on coke and speed and a seven day bender! It was off the f***ing chart.'
For the big day, Katie walked down the aisle in a £45,000 bejewelled pink wedding gown that her mother joked was like a 'big meringue'.
Katie mused: 'Everything was done around pink and bling. Even my wedding ring was like a f***ing knuckle duster. Heaviest thing ever!'
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Yet the entire day was orchestrated around getting photos of OK! and content for their reality show, with Amy musing: 'there were so many photos taken but I don't think there's any of us as a family.
'It was upsetting, so not real. I don't think she enjoyed it all. It was all too much for her, you could tell she was depressed.'
Even former OK! magazine editor Lisa Byrne could sense Katie's mood while overseeing the big day, recalling: 'It was flat.
'She wasn't herself, she was quite vacant. I felt there was a sadness upon her.'
Katie then admitted that she hadn't had the big day she'd hoped for, confessing: 'I was trying to enjoy it, I wanted to enjoy it.'
Three months before the wedding Katie had given birth to her second child, Junior. She suffered with postnatal depression and struggled with the constant pressure of filming every aspect of her life for her reality show with Pete.
Amy, who thought it was 'really wrong' that Junior's birth had been filmed for the show, began to worry about her daughter's wellbeing, noting: 'by that time she was a commodity.
'She had no one thinking, "does she need a break?" It was then I realised her life is a reality show, it's existing in stories.'
Katie mused: 'Everything was done around pink and bling. Even my wedding ring was like a f***ing knuckle duster. Heaviest thing ever!'
Katie also revealed that her mental health has not been the same since she split from Peter nearly two decades ago.
She shared: 'That had an impact on me for the rest of my life, on my mental health.
'Ever since then I've been trying to find the same thing that I had with Peter.'
Katie then described her ideal man, saying they had to be older, able to treat her, someone who won't leech on her and isn't looking for fame.
During filming, it emerged that Katie had met and married her fourth husband - so-called businessman Lee.
Sharing his reaction to the news his mother married Lee Andrews in Dubai after days of knowing him, Junior sighed: 'This is the most silliest, stupidest thing.
'Marrying a guy you don't even know, this just sums it up, this is my mum, this is what she does.'
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Lee has been accused by multiple exes of conning them, most recently being accused of taking £5,000 from a 'vulnerable woman' in another alleged scam.
He has denied being involved in any cons.
Lee then set the internet alight when he seemingly disappeared into thin air, after Katie initially claimed he had been kidnapped. It then emerged Lee was being held at Dubai's notorious Al-Awir prison.
Despite mounting evidence that fraud was the cause for his arrest, self-proclaimed 'millionaire' Lee insisted that he was imprisoned on suspicion of espionage 'and held in a state security building' before being taken to prison over 'a civil case in Dubai'.
In an Instagram post shared in the early hours of Wednesday, Lee continued to insist there is 'not one shred of evidence' that he has been charged with fraud, hitting out at his ex fiancée Alana for spreading the story.
He claimed he was 'taken to the Qatar border by the men, at gunpoint and was captured by men with assault rifles' before adding: 'They did slap me round a little bit, little s***s.'
During filming, it emerged that Katie had met and married her fourth husband - so-called businessman Lee Andrews who was recently released from Dubai's notorious Al-Awir prison
Lee is Katie's fourth husband. She was first married to Peter for three years until 2009.
Nine months later she tied the knot again with cage fighter Alex Reid, who also appeared on the documentary and expressed his distaste at Katie publicly discussing their sex life in interviews.
They separated in January 2011 and exactly two years she wed Kieran Hayler, the father of her youngest children. They split in 2018 after he admitted to being unfaithful multiple times throughout their marriage.
Peter chose not to appear in the documentary but issued this statement: 'I have chosen not to speak publicly about these matters out of love and respect for Junior and Princess.
'Today Katie and I maintain an amicable relationship in the interests of our children. I sincerely wish her happiness and peace for the future.'
Her former manager Claire's statement read: 'Our priority has always been to protect and support the clients we represent.
'We have always been fiercely loyal to them but every decision they make is ultimately their own. We have never forced any client to do work they did not want to do.
'Together, we agreed that introducing more of Katie Price would be the right direction for the long-term career she wanted to build.
'After investing so many years in helping to build her Katie Price brand, it would have made no sense whatsoever to create a negative narrative around her.'
Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, a four-part Sky Original series, is available on Sky and streaming service NOW.
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