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Jordan (born May 22, 1978),
is the public name and image of Katie Price, who was born Katie Infield.
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 Katie Infield changed her name to Katie
Price. An excellent swimmer, gymnast, and horsewoman, she took up
glamour modelling as a "Page 3" girl in The Sun, a popular tabloid
newspaper in the United Kingdom. It was at this time that she began to
use the name Jordan.
In 1998, Jordan tried out
for a part on the television series Baywatch, but did not get the part.
In July 1998, Jordan received her first breast augmentation, thus
forcing her "retirement" from Page 3 of the Sun, which had recently
decided that its "natural beauty" policy required it to stay
"silicone-free". Thus began a series of operations to enhance her
figure.
Jordan appeared in six
volumes of Playboy's Book of Lingerie from 1997 to 1999. In 2002, Jordan
was shooting a cover to run in Playboy and Hugh Hefner invited her to
spend three weeks at his mansion. She appeared at a number of
promotional events for the similarly named Jordan Grand Prix Formula One
team during this time, during a period when they were heavily promoting
themselves to the youth market.
Jordan's private life and
wild behavior and outrageous antics have been extensively detailed by
the paparazzi, much of it at European nightclubs. She has had a number
of well-publicised relationships. One of her first public relationships
was 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 in the jungle with singer Peter Andre, which seemed to have
resurrected both of their careers.
In May 2004, writing as
Katie Price, she published her autobiography, Being Jordan to
surprisingly good reviews.
In February 2005 Jordan
announced that she was 5 months pregnant with Peter Andre's child. They
plan to marry in September.
Under the name Katie Price,
Jordan was one the acts competing for the right to represent the United
Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, to be held in Ukraine. On 5
March 2005, singing a song titled "Not Just Anybody", she came in second
place in the pre-selection show Making Your Mind Up, behind Javine. The
other contestants were the 1996 UK entrant Gina G, as well as Andy
Scott-Lee, and the group Tricolore. It is rumoured within industry
circles that the vocal tracks for "Not Just Anybody" were in fact sung
by Rachel Stevens.
Jordan gave birth by
Caesarean section to her second child, a 5lb 13oz boy, on 13 June 2005.
Katie Price claims that she
will be retiring her Jordan image.
Her appearances in
Playboy Special Editions
-
Playboy's
Book of Lingerie Vol. 58 November 1997 - Byron Newman, pages 24-25.
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Playboy's
Book of Lingerie Vol. 59 January 1998 - Byron Newman, pages 84-89.
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Playboy's
Book of Lingerie Vol. 60 March 1998 - pages 44-47.
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Playboy's
Book of Lingerie Vol. 61 May 1998 - pages 34-35.
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Playboy's
Book of Lingerie Vol. 65 January 1999 - pages 22-23.
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