Her multiple court cases will also have drained a lot of her income. Over the years, there has been a nightclub assault, the breaching of a restraining order, issues with planning permission and an illegal second-hand car dealership on her property, among other charges.
She has also been found guilty of a succession of driving offences, including drunk driving, speeding, and driving without a valid licence and insurance. In 2021, she was banned from driving after flipping her BMW in a crash, and was handed a 16-week suspended prison sentence and 100 hours of community service. When the ban was lifted in 2023, she treated herself to a Hummer SUV, reportedly worth £50,000.
Then, of course, there is the irony of the cost of all the cosmetic surgery that made her famous in the first place. The perma-tanned former glamour model has had 17 operations on her breasts, recently claiming to have “the largest boobs in Britain”. She has proudly showed off her fillers, Botox, liposuction and other enhancements on Instagram, but has also admitted that her obsession with plastic surgery probably tips into body dysmorphia.
“I have gone too far, I’ve been there, done it with all the fillers,” she says. “I don’t have fillers now. I do it in my lips and I have Botox because it got to the point where my face just looked like a balloon. Like really shiny. I am starting to look alien.”
If that’s not wallet-busting enough, there are also the divorces: the mother-of-five has been married three times, and her divorces are likely to have incurred legal fees, if nothing else. In 2005, she wed the singer Peter Andre in a lavish princess-themed ceremony at Highclere Castle, after meeting him on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.
This was when she changed her persona from Jordan to Katie and the couple had a long-running (and lucrative) reality show, Katie and Peter, which saw them raise their two children, Princess, now 17 and Junior, now 19. The couple released an album together and tried to launch a chat show, but they split in 2010.
