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Katie Price has revealed her family are urging her to seek medical help after growing concerns about her dramatic weight loss.
The former glamour model, 47, who has previously denied using weight loss medication, has sparked concern in recent months with her worryingly thin frame.
Back in September, the TV personality revealed that she had undergone some tests over her weight loss.
Giving an update on her podcast The Katie Price Show, Katie called herself a ‘stick woman’ and said doctors were concerned about her low blood pressure.
Katie added she was feeling the pressure from her mother Amy to go to the doctors as she told her sister Sophie: ‘All I’ve had, since everywhere has been closed, is, ‘Have you phoned the doctors yet? Have you phoned?’
‘I’m like, “Yes, mum. I went to the doctors today.” I screenshotted the appointment.’
Sophie asked: ‘Did you actually though? Because mum has been speaking to me about this.’
Katie replied: ‘Yes. I’m going in there to talk about blood tests, MRI, everything she wants me to have to get to the bottom of why the price is – forget stick man – stick woman.’
The mother-of-five added she had to have her blood pressure done three times because doctors thought it was so low that there must have been an error.
In October, Katie confessed she had been hospitalised for her weight loss – which she initially conceded was her aim – however later insisted was baffling doctors and left her needing tests to assess the situation.
Katie told fans on her Snapchat Story she ‘doesn’t know why’ her frame is shrinking so much as she undergoes tests.
She began: ‘I’ve been up early at the doctors so she could do some bloods and because my veins are so s*** they had three attempts.
‘They could only fill two tubes up, so I’ve got to go back in two weeks. And I’ve got to have my stitches out then because they looked at my little stab wound that I did…’
Katie added: ‘The reason I’m going to the doctors is because I keep losing weight and I don’t know why. So that’s that.’
In November, Katie started hormone replacement therapy to treat menopause symptoms – in a pill and gel format.
Speaking for the first time in detail about the effects of her being on HRT, she discussed how she feels ‘worse’ but is ‘persevering.’
She explained: ‘It’s my sixth day today. I’ve been feeling sick, I’m bloated and I’m very tired.
‘I’m not sure if it’s the HRT. I’m on two tablets and then I put the gel on my thigh. I didn’t want a patch because I thought it might come off.’
‘I’m still getting the night sweats, if not worse, but I am persevering. I have one more week of the tablets then it’s just the gel.’
