Tragic tale of Katie Price’s cash – how surgery, shopping and men left her broke

Katie Price has denied living a ‘lavish lifestyle’ at a court probe into her spending after being declared personally bankrupt last November.

The star – who is currently on a five star trip to the Maldives with boyfriend Carl Woods – appeared at the hearing at London’s The Rolls Building over Skype.

There, the 42 year old insisted ’90 per cent’ of her getaways are for business and that her current tropical stay is for a ‘work assignment’.

Since last November, Katie has been to Thailand, Spain, skiied in France, been on a luxury holiday to Turkey and on a cabin getaway with boyfriend Carl Woods, 31, sparking concerns that she is splashing the cash on holidays rather than paying her debts.

Katie was due to be discharged from her bankruptcy in November, and in the meantime is supposed to pay any money she makes from selling her belongings or from paid work to her creditors.

In July she told a bankruptcy hearing of her financial woes.

Ms Price said: “I haven’t got anything left, everything has been stolen off me.”

She said she had been burgled, can’t get insurance, had a “bad breakdown” last year and spent five weeks at the Priory.

Her representative told us: “Katie has been fully compliant throughout the bankruptcy process.”

But how did things get to this point and what on earth happened to the estimated £45million Katie amassed at the height of her career?

Her men

From luxurious holidays and lavish meals to top of the range motors and shopping sprees, Katie has always liked to spoil the special man in her life.

Back when things were good in spring 2017, Katie marked her ex husband Kieran Hayler’s 30th by presenting him with the Audi R8 V10 Spyder, which she bought secondhand for £77,000.

But once it reportedly emerged he’d been playing away with everyone from her best mate through to the cashier at the Co-op, Katie took it back quicker that you can say, ‘My Crazy Life.”

Kieran denied Katie’s cashier claims but did admit to getting intimate with her former best friend Jane Pountney, as well as their nanny Nikki Brown – which Nikki denied.

Shopping sprees

Despite being ‘skint’, Katie was spotted laden with bags on a shopping trip with daughter Princess, 12, at Bluewater in Essex last June.

For Christmas 2017 she admitted dropping £2,000 on decorations alone because she feared it could be her mum Amy’s last one.

And last year her son Junior was left cringing when she spoiled him with a mountain of presents on his 14th birthday.

“Oh mum why’ve you bought me so many presents?” he asked as she walked in hauling seven gift bags.

“Mum you’ve actually got me so much!”

Surgery

From breast enhancements and reductions to botched face lifts, Brazilian butt lifts, tummy tucks and traumatic corrective surgery, Katie has left no stone unturned in her body transformation.

She’s spent hundreds of thousands of pounds over the years on nipping, tucking, plumping and smoothing – resulting in a face and body that has little to no resemblance to her former self.

Katie underwent a nose job back in 2007, travelling to the US for a £6,000 rhinoplasty.

She also once revealed she’d spent more than £120,000 on having the perfect smile, explaining that she’d needed urgent work on her teeth after a childhood accident.

“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 teeth cost me.

“It’s still my tooth underneath, but they shave them down so the veneer can sit on them. They look like pegs now – if I didn’t have them I’d be Miss Peggy.”

The mum of five underwent her first facelift in July 2017, using a London-based plastic surgeon to lift up her sagging cheeks and blurred jawline in a £5,000 ‘invisible’ procedure.

Pink everything

If there’s one thing Katie likes then it’s the colour pink.

At the peak of her game, she forked out £75,000 for a customised bright pink Range Rover which ended up being sold to an Essex car dealer as she struggled to make ends meet.

She was also the proud owner of a 2001 pink Suzuki Vitara Barbie which she tried to sell on eBay after being banned from driving for three months in 2019.

And that’s on top of her two pink horse boxes which reportedly cost £300,000 and £130,000 respectively.

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