Katie Price's heartbreaking confession she kept 'options' over fear men would cheat
EXCLUSIVE: Former glamour model Katie Price says she was so worried that her boyfriends would cheat on her that she'd make sure she had another "option" - but she doesn't need to do that with new man Carl Woods
Katie Price has made the heartbreaking confession that she used to keep another "option" on hand over fears her partners would cheat on her.
The former glamour model, 42, says she was left so broken by her ex-husband Kieran Hayler's extra-marital affairs that she found it impossible to trust men.
The mum-of-five says that things are completely different this time around with new boyfriend Carl Woods.
Katie has every faith in the ex-Love Island star's love for her that she knows he'd never hurt her.
But before he came along, Katie was so worried about being cheated on that she'd always have another man in the background just in case.
During an exclusive chat with Mirror Online, she revealed: "If I’d met [Carl] a couple of years ago it probably wouldn’t have worked anyway because I believed that every man cheats on me, I’ve always made sure in the past, well since Kieran, that I have an option because I’ve been cheated on so bad.
"These options aren’t sexual options, it’s about the attention and the neediness of wanting to feel wanted."
She added: "It’s taken me until I was 42. Yeah I’ve had the rehearsal marriage, I’ve had it all, but the reason I say this is real, of course I’ve said 'I love you' before to people, he’s been engaged before, we’ve all got a past, but the difference is, this isn’t manufactured, this isn’t a business arrangement, I always thought, the person I settle down with I have to know them this time, not rush it, he comes from a decent family, he is what he is.
"I know he’s not going to hurt me, I know he’s not going to cheat, I’ve let my guard down.
"Normally in the past, because I’ve been cheated on so many times, I don’t trust anyone, I always think they’re going to cheat on me, so I always made sure I had an 'option' because I was scared.
"So if someone cheated on me, there’d always be someone I could go to give me the attention that I needed.
"Whereas now, there’s no options. I’ve got a new number, we’ve both got our Instagram set up on each other’s phones, he’s got my passcode, he can see anything, he’ll answer it and read my messages if I need him to.
"And that feeling where you go to bed and wake up knowing you don’t have to think 'Quick, where’s my phone?' Or turn my phone upside down.
"Even with the options, it was never sexual or nothing, it was just the attention, the neediness that fed me if the man wasn’t giving me the attention I want.
"Whereas with Carl he gives me all of it, I genuinely have let me guard down, I’m not interested, I don’t even look at anyone else and think ‘phwoar’, whereas before you look, but when you’re happy, you don’t look, it’s weird.
"It’s natural, we’re all human, we’d all walk up the road and go ‘Look at him, he’s fit’ but I don’t need to do that now because look at him, I can’t get any better."
And it seems Katie definitely doesn't have anything to worry about, as Carl, 31, gushed as he described her as his "dream girl".
The couple are so in love they've had each other's faces tattooed on their arms, they're planning to get married and have kids, and Katie is going to take Carl's surname too - something she's never done before.
He told us: "For me, she’s a dream girl. I couldn’t fault her, she’s the pinnacle for me, it doesn’t get any better.
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"I don’t have any other visions of anyone else, as far as I’m concerned Katie’s the ultimate. She’s beautiful, she’s got the biggest heart, she’s caring, she’s just very misunderstood and she’s been taken advantage of a lot of times and unfortunately when people take advantage of her, because she’s acted a bit wild in her past and we all know that she has, she’s been portrayed as an idiot, when people take the p**s out of her, because that picture’s been painted of her, ultimately it’s always her fault.
"So I just want to be somebody that she can rely on and she can. I say to her all time time, 'I just want to protect you, I’ll never let anyone take the p**s out of you while you’re with me'.
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