Katie Price has opened up about her life in a very revealing episode from her new TV show, Katie Price: In Therapy.
During the episode Katie breaks down when she opens up about the difficulties she has had to overcome while raising her son Harvey, who was born in May 2002, not long after she broke up from his father, Dwight Yorke.
Breaking down and getting tearful Katie admits, “I don’t want to leave him.”
“It’s hard work and it’s forever as well and I don’t say it for sympathy, if anything I try and put it out there to help other families,” continues the former glamour model.
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Katie, who has four other children, Junior and Princess with ex-husband Peter Andre, and Bunny and Jett with her current husband Kieran Hayler, discussed with a therapist during the episode how she is sometimes unable to attend some of her other kids events if Harvey doesn’t want to go.
“It’s not easy if my kids want to go to a theme park and Harvey doesn’t want to go, because if he doesn’t want to get in the car he can’t. And then it might ruin their fun,” added Katie.
“You know and you can have respite, but I still won’t do respite with him yet because I don’t want to feel like I’m letting him down by letting him go, while I go and have fun with the others.”
Trying to keep all her children happy appears to be Katie’s main goal, as any parent would of course want, but sometimes days can get more difficult than others for the mum-of-five.
“That’s sometimes when it’s hard, because I try and keep them all happy,” said Katie. “Like Junior wants me to watch him play football, like on a Sunday, but he understands that I can’t because Harvey doesn’t want to go. So I cant make him want to go, because he’ll smash the car up and if I’m driving he’ll just go for it. But then I don’t want to leave Harvey with someone, you know?”
“I don’t want to be a failure,” Katie added.
Harvey was born with septo optic dysplasia and later diagnosed with autism as well as as well as prader willi syndrome, which means he can't regulate his appetite.
Speaking about some of the harsh words she’s had to endure about Harvey, Katie said: “People say about Harvey ‘look at your fat, black dribbling kid and I just think, ‘why would you say it to a child who can’t defend himself?’
“So things like that piss me off where I want to write back, and I have to hold my breath, because I think that’s what they want me to do.”
And although she admits she would never change her life, Katie touches upon how difficult it can get with Harvey.
“Take everything else out of the equation; take my job out, take the men out, take all my other kids out, just me and Harvey on his own is a challenge, is complex. It’s a challenge, it’s like, full on, people don’t realise that. But I wouldn’t never change it for anything neither, ever, ever.
“Like they’ve got boarding at his school, because he travels an hour everyday to and from school, I would never, ever, over my dead body, board him ever, because I wouldn’t like it and I know he wouldn’t like it."
You can see Katie talking about Harvey's upcoming birthday with him during the episode, which is a sweet exchange between the pair.
Katie Price said that Peter "idolised" her, and suggested that they could still be together if it wasn't for the fact their entire lives were exposed on reality television.
You can see the full interview with Katie during Katie Price: In Therapy on Channel 5, Friday 21 September at 9pm.