With dogged determination Katie Price has continued to expose the vicious trolling targeting her disabled son Harvey but experts are afraid it’s putting him in harm’s way
Over the last few months Katie Price’s life has descended into chaos - with her drug taking, partying and run-ins with the law making daily headlines, as she struggles to cope with her mum Amy's terminal illness and having two of her children move in with their dad.
Amid the controversy and shocking headlines, however, Katie has had one major triumph. Her campaign to make online bullying - something her disabled son Harvey has been victim of - a crime won the backing of MPs with the so-called Harvey's Law possibly coming into force next year.
However last week even her campaigning backfired amid accusations she has actually exposed Harvey to more hate.
After cruel trolls circulated a picture of Harvey, 16 with his head superimposed on a jihadi bride, Katie, 40, shared the image on both hers and Harvey’s Instagram accounts to illustrate the kind of terrible bullying he has to endure. And although there was righteous outrage at the cruelty of the original post, anger was also directed towards Katie.
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With her youthful glow and natural curly hair, A 16-year-old Katie Price, from Brighton, was a natural in front of the camera.
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For her first ever modelling shoot at 17, Katie was fresh faced and surgery free, but that pout is unmistakeable
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With an eye on the prize, Katie perfected her Jordan persona early on in her career
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With professional hair and make-up, Joran begins her ascent to Page 3 domination
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She's admitted to getting her first boob job at just 18, so it's little wonder she was looking forward to showing them off
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New to the party circuit, Jordan was earning her stripes with the Paparazzi at 24
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But it wasn't long before her reputation as Britain's hardest partying glamour girl was confirmed
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As the lucrative commercial deals started to roll in, Jordan expanded her fan base beyond the typical lads mag readers
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For her stint in the jungle in 2004, Jordan opted for practical corn rows and clear skin, but those shower scenes relaunched her career and set her firmly on a reality TV trajectory
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Fresh out of the jungle and with a new man in the form of 90's pop sensation Peter Andre on her arm, Katie was all about the matchingoutfits. She ditched the braids and slap-free face for a more high maintenance look.
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A new mum to second son Junior, Katie was quickly back in her knickers on the red carpet, sporting a noticeably slimmer nose and smoother skin.
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Later that year Katie was preparing to launch her pop career with husband Peter and was very much into her mahogany years
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As she prepared to welcome baby number three (her first daughter, Princess Tiaami), Jordan was looking more than a little like her impending arrival. Weird or what?
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Now mainly known as Katie Price, she admitted after confirming her nose job, "I've always had a thing about my nose."I haven't had a full 100% nose job. They shaved the bone – they didn't break my nose. In fact, I liked my nose before and now. If I had a cupboard with both noses, I'd alternate between them!"
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At 30, Katie was still young but already a fan of fillers."I get my forehead and around my eyes Botoxed every six months and I love it. You can't beat it," she said.
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She's not been shy about the work she's had done on her teeth, either. "I didn't do it for cosmetics, I fell off a skateboard and cracked my teeth when I was younger," she admitted."They were so expensive. When I was in the US, I watched Extreme Makeover and went to see the dentist on there – $150,000 my bloody teeth cost me."
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She was also one of the pioneers of lip fillers, sporting the plumped up pout that's so very mainstream these days.
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As her marriage to Peter Andre began to break down, Katie's mega-watt beauty routine followed suit and she was often spotted wearing a much more demure look
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During the Alex Reid years, Katie went ALL out with her make up and outfit choices.
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Katie's chest looked much flatter at this 2011 premier
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Katie stepped out sporting a noticeably taught forehead, indicating a fresh botox job.
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Following this poorly lit picture, Katie stepped out with a drastic new look...
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With BLACK hair and eerily pore-less skin
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By 2014, the boobs were most definitely BACK, as was a painfully taught-looking face.
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As her facial muscles relaxed back to normal, her hair followed suit and Katie looked happier and more natural than she had in a while when she got together with Kieran Hayler.
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Looking a little puffy later on 2015
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Katie went into the CBB house in 2015 and admitted having her boobs reduced – but that things hadn't gone exactly to plan."They were going to take them out on Monday," she told her shocked housemates. "My implant was hanging out in New Year's Day. But it hasn't stopped me coming in, because I'm not running around."
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We've lost track of where Katie's boobs were in 2016, but this is the year she seemed to become seriously addicted to fillers.
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Looking puffy again in the summer of 2016, cheering on then-husband Kieran Hayler.
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A botched botox job left Katie feeling 'ugly' in 2017."I absolutely hated it... the only thing I could do to sort it out was to remove the threads and then have a face lift. I never ever wanted a face lift at my age - I would have had one in years to come, but I didn't want one this young,"
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She eventually returned the Brussels-based surgeon who fixed her botched boobs back in 2015.
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By 2018 her face was back to normal, but not before shocking pictures emerged of her post surgery in Belgium, her face wrapped in bandaged and surgical fluid tubes hanging off her head.
Fans were quick to question her methods with hundreds pointing out that most people may have missed the original post but as Harvey has 125k followers and she has 1.9million, she actually ensured far more people saw it.
As Harvey suffers from numerous disabilities including partial blindness, autism and Prader Willi syndrome fans suggested Harvey wouldn’t have seen or understood the original post. It’s believed Jordan controls the account, although he does write some captions.
Fans slammed the mum-of-five with one writing, “Don’t understand why u let him have his own Instagram when all this stuff of him is about for him to see it.”
Another added, “Katie should be protecting him why should he have to know all about this hate subjected to him ??”
Another said, “As if he would have even known this, Katie Price you are shameless, you should be protecting him from this not shoving it in his face.”
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But some leapt to her defense.
One fan said, “This poor woman can’t do right for doing wrong! She is trying to make everyone aware of this. Hiding it from Harvey isn’t helping him... .”
While another said, "Bullies shouldn’t exist or should be punished !!!! Not the other way around…”
Experts have warned Jordan that although her campaign message is absolutely right, her methods could potentially put Harvey in harm's way.
Social media expert, Matt Navarro, says, “The phrase ‘don’t feed the trolls’ applies here – Katie is providing them with a platform. Trolls bite because it is aggravating and this enables them to do it more, putting Harvey in danger of further trolling. While it’s good that Katie is challenging the trolls, she is also encouraging them.”
And online communications guru, Sharn Rayment, says, “Katie’s heart is in the right place and she may not mean to, but leaving the comments on [his Instagram page] is cruel to Harvey, who has been subject to bullying his whole life .”
Despite being slammed for her actions, pals say Katie – who regularly appears with Harvey on TV to promote her anti-trolling campaign – has no intention of stopping.
A source says, "Like any mother, Katie loves and adores her son, while she puts on a very tough act, she is still shocked that people would slam her for her actions. To be accused of exposing Harvey to the cruelty of online trolls is her worst nightmare - it's the last things she'd ever want and the very thing she's trying to prevent.
“Katie is obsessed with the campaign, and her intentions are well-meaning, but her mission to make online abuse a crime has blinkered her at times. Her pals worry her huge success with the campaign may have blinded her to the full impact of how she's going about this."
Read more in this week's Closer - out now.