Katie Price has sparked concern from family and friends after showing off her increasingly smaller frame on Instagram last week.
And best pal Kerry Katona, 44, has been first in line to tell her friend that she’s gone too far and needs to change things dramatically to get healthy – especially after the duo made a pact to make 2025 the year of their glow-ups!
‘Kerry is really worried about Katie,’ our source says. ‘She feels like she can’t justify calling herself her best friend if she doesn’t step in to say something. Katie is setting off alarm bells and there are serious concerns for her physical and mental wellbeing.
‘Kerry and Katie made a pact to make 2025 their year and to throw out the old and start afresh, but it’s seen them headed in totally different directions. Kerry has set off this year getting herself into the best shape possible, but she feels that Katie has fallen by the wayside while she has stuck to her guns.’
And Kerry – who has been friends with Katie, 46, since they starred on I’m A Celebrity…! together in 2004 – has told pals she’s worried about Katie’s future.
‘She wants Katie to mentally detox, eat well, and be healthy and start to live a normal life away from the spotlight,’ our source says. ‘Kerry’s told her she can’t just stand by and watch Katie dig herself into an early grave – she simply won’t let that happen.’
Kerry spoke to Closer in February about her recent 2st weight loss, saying, ‘I’ve gone down to a size 6 and I’m just over 8st 7lbs. I’m slimmer now than I was in Atomic Kitten. I’m getting there emotionally, but physically this is the best shape I’ve ever been in!’
Our source adds, ‘Kerry’s weight loss has been coupled with a well-balanced diet and exercise regime. She’s been doing a lot of hiking and working out, she’s in great shape. Kerry is glowing, her energy levels are through the roof, she has clear skin and great hair. She’s clear-headed and looks incredible from head to toe.
‘Katie, however, is struggling. People are always commenting on her posts saying she’s lost too much weight, and the worry is that she could have shrunk to 6st. She barely eats and has admitted that she vapes way too much.'
Friends are worrying that she’s looking unwell, and many of Katie’s 2.7million Instagram followers share the same opinion. Some took to her comments section after a recent upload of her modelling a black gym set to share their concerns.
One wrote, ‘This worries me as someone with a 16-year-old daughter seeing this and thinking that some young girls may believe and actually think this is what fitness looks like. This is certainly not what someone who is fit and healthy looks like.’
Another added, ‘Wish someone would help her. She looks frail and unwell,’ while a third said, ‘I love you Katie, I have done since I was a teen but please look after yourself. You don’t look well.’
Katie has addressed the concerns, and has been quick to assure fans that she is merely back to her normal size after years of eating the wrong foods and looking ‘puffy’ as a result. She was also unable to exercise for a prolonged period of time after breaking both her feet in 2020.
Closer recently reported how mum-of-five Kerry has fallen in love with Thailand and plans to move there after telling social media followers how her recent holiday ‘changed [her] life’ and she has ‘found [her] calling.’
The source adds, ‘Kerry has got fit and evolved to another level, healing herself and finding inner peace. She’s the first to tell you she is a totally new woman. Now she wants Katie to find her inner peace, like she has, and to love herself a bit more. She wants her to stop with all this surgery and heal spiritually.’
Former glamour model Katie has been under scrutiny for her changing appearance lately having undergone her sixth facelift and 17th boob job, booking up for more corrective surgery planned later this year.
Closer previously revealed how Katie was planning to go under the knife for a chin and neck lift, a breast reduction and lip and bum implants. She also wants to have surgery on her right eye to stop it from ‘drooping’ following her facelift.
And Kerry is hopeful that Katie will listen to her pleas due to their close bond, with Katie telling Closer about their friendship last year, ‘We might not see each other all the time, but we’re always there for each other. We’ve gone through so much together.’
Our source says, ‘Kerry wants to see Katie take the same journey she has, a spiritual self-healing journey, and not another trip to the surgeon’s table. Kerry is seriously worried her best friends will end up with more complications or, God forbid, something even worse.’