Katie Price (born May 22, 1978), born Katie Infield, and better known as Jordan, is a British glamour model, perhaps most famous for her large, surgically enhanced breasts and the reports of her personal life in British tabloid newspapers.

She was born in Brighton. When she was four, her father left home. After a while her mother, Amy, remarried to Paul Price, and Jordan changed her name to Katie Price. An excellent swimmer, gymnast, and horsewoman, she took up glamour modelling as a "page 3" girl in the tabloid newspapers.

Jordan had a well-publicised relationship with the pop singer Dane Bowers , of the boy band Another Level , but they ended their relationship while she was pregnant by him, and she had an abortion.

In the June 7, 2001 British General Election, Jordan ran as a candidate in Manchester, England (using her real name) under a slogan of "For a Bigger and Betta Future". As a part of her election campaign - which was intended to bring a little fun into a dull election - she promised free breast implants, increases on nudist beaches, and a ban on parking tickets. In the end, Jordan won 713 votes or 1.8% of the vote.

On May 27, 2002, she gave birth to a baby boy she named Harvey after her grandfather. Harvey's father was the Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke, although again the relationship broke up before the child was born. Jordan has said she intended to have the birth shown live over the Internet, but changed her mind later and decided to keep it private. Harvey was born at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, his birth being induced when he was two weeks overdue. He was found to be blind, having a condition known as septo-optic dysplasia, meaning that his optic nerve hadn't developed correctly. Media coverage speculated that Jordan's alcohol consumption while pregnant might been the cause, but doctors said that it was almost certainly caused by a genetic disorder. His condition is thought to be incurable.

That same year, Jordan was treated for cancer. She had a leiomyosarcoma on her finger, this being a rare form of malignant tumour which attacks smooth muscle tissue and can spread around the body. She had it removed at the nearby Nuffield Hospital .

Jordan began 2004 by appearing on the reality TV series I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, flirting with singer Peter Andre, which had also resurrected his career.

External links

• The official Jordan fan club's website
• Jordan's entry in the Internet Movie Database
• Jordan keeps baby Harvey under wraps - "this is Brighton & Hove" news article dated Tuesday, May 28, 2002
• Jordan: Fronting up - BBC News article, dated Friday, August 2, 2002
• 'Don't blame parents for baby's blindness' - BBC News article, dated Monday, August 5, 2002
• Jordan treated for cancer - BBC News article, dated Sunday, August 11, 2002
• Jordan's 2001 election result - BBC
• Topless Model Runs for British Parliament - ABC News