Katie Price has opened up about the issues in her relationship with JJ Slater following speculation they had split when she wiped him from her social media.
The glamour model, 46, confessed she ‘didn’t feel free’ in her current relationship with JJ, 32, during a candid conversation about her love life.
Katie and JJ have been together for 18 months after first meeting following his TV appearance on Married At First Sight UK.
Speaking about her relationship on Paul C. Brunson’s podcast We Need To Talk, Katie discussed how she feels about her romance.
When Paul told her she should feel ‘happy’ and ‘free’ with a partner, Katie admitted: ‘I’ve never had that in any relationship. Never had any of them.
‘And JJ, he’s the most kind, genuine, easygoing, chilled person. But do I feel my happiest and do I feel free? No.
Katie Price has opened up about the issues in her relationship with JJ Slater following speculation they had split when she wiped him from her social media
The glamour model, 46, confessed she ‘didn’t feel free’ in her current relationship with JJ, 32, during a candid conversation about her love life (pictured July 2024)
‘It’s not a reflection on him, maybe that’s what I need to change for myself.’
Giving her some advice, Paul said: ‘You need some time to yourself because you have to experience what freedom feels like.’
Katie explained: ‘Freedom to me is like when I took my kids to Thailand for a month, just me and them. We felt free. Just little life experiences, seeing things, taking them to little adventures.’
Katie went on to discuss other concerns in her relationship as she shared fears that she spends too much time with JJ and not enough with her friends.
She continued: ‘I just don’t want to answer to anyone, I want them to fit in with me.’ When you meet someone, it’s natural to want to be with them all the time.
‘Then the mistakes I’ve made in the past are then you’re with them all the time. It becomes literally 24/7 because I’ve never been out with someone who’s had a nine to five job.’
She went on: ‘They’ve always had a job where, I suppose it’s adaptable that they come with me.
‘So in the beginning, that’s all nice, but then you get into the habit of they’re about too much, to the point you start not seeing your friends, because you’re with them all the time, and then you get into this situation where they’re so used to being with you all the time that then when you do say, “I’m gonna go and see a friend,” it doesn’t seem normal because you haven’t done it.
Katie and JJ sparked rumours of a split after wiping all traces of each other from their respective Instagram accounts
‘So I’m a bit worried that I’ve got like that with JJ.’
Last week the couple sparked rumours of a split after wiping all traces of each other from their respective Instagram accounts.
Katie has been involved in a stop-start relationship with JJ since publicly confirming they were romantically involved last February.
But she prompted inevitable speculation regarding her current relationship status after reshuffling her social media platform to prioritise pictures that focus on her children and passion for horse-riding.
She also drew attention to her pantomime role in Pinocchio – in which she plays a fairy – as well as promotional photos and videos for CBD oil and niche, online fashion retailers.
But there appears to be no room for JJ, who Katie once described as ‘my absolute everything.’
Likewise, Katie is notably absent from his Instagram platform, with the first visible photo of the model seemingly shared last November.
Katie has reshuffled her social media platform to prioritise pictures that focus on her children and passion for horse-riding
Despite a clear shift in tone across social media, sources have denied claims of another rift in their relationship. A source told MailOnline: ‘It’s not true.’
The couple began dating in early 2024 and even sparked speculation of an engagement after Katie was pictured wearing a diamond while recovering from her sixth facelift in Turkey last year.
Price recently admitted she wouldn’t date someone who has ‘only slept with two or three’ women as she likes to know a man has ‘been around the block’.
The model has had a number of high-profile romances over the years – including a marriage to Peter Andre, a relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke and a cheeky kiss with Simon Cowell.
And in a recent interview on the Disruptors Podcast, Price laid bare exactly what she likes in a man.
‘I like to know they’ve been around the block,’ she remarked.
‘I’d rather a man know what they’re doing. If someone hadn’t had many, I wouldn’t really like that – isn’t that weird!
Likewise, Price is notably absent from his Instagram platform, despite the London based designer previously peppering his grid with photos of the ex-glamour model
‘I’ll ask them: “Do you know how many you’ve slept with and that?”
Price was also asked what the ‘minimum number’ of girls she would like a potential boyfriend to have slept with is.
She said: ‘When I was younger, I’d be jealous but I think because I’m at my age, I just think if a man’s been there, done it, knows what they want – they’re more settled in their head aren’t they.
‘Imagine if it’s like two or three girls [a man’s body count], they don’t even know what they’re doing.
‘My friends say “Katie, you’re gross, that’s disgusting, why would you want a man that’s been everywhere” and I’m just like, I’d rather it.
‘I want them to know what they’re doing and to have been around.’
The Real Husbands of Katie Price
In the decades since she first rose to fame, Katie Price has enjoyed – and quite likely endured – a decidedly busy love life that has seen her walk down the aisle three times before heading to divorce court in equal measure. Here’s a look at the trio with whom she exchanged ‘I dos’… and ‘I don’ts’:
PETER ANDRE (2005 – 2009)
The nation got to watch love blossom between the pair when they starred alongside one another on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here back in 2004. The flying sparks soon became nuptials, with blushing bride Katie and her erstwhile pop hunk beau tying the knot at Highclere Castle (the grand Berkshire estate of Downton Abbey fame) in September 2005. Katie, who was already mother to son Harvey (born in 2002 following a romance with former footballer Dwight Yorke), soon started a family with her new husband. The couple welcomed son Junior in 2005, while daughter Princess followed in 2007. Creation between the pair also came artistically, with the release of reality programmes, a failed talk show and a foray into the music world. However, after four years of securing their position as the Ken and Barbie of reality TV and glossy magazine deals, the pair announced in 2009 that they were going their separate ways.
ALEX REID (2010 – 2012)
Katie soon switched her romantic allegiance from a onetime ab-bearing pop heartthrob to musclebound MMA fighter Alex Reid. The two met at Michelle Heaton’s 30th birthday party at London’s Cafe de Paris. But shortly after they got together, Katie dumped Alex on live TV, only for him to win her back and the pair go from strength to strength. Weeks after proudly cheering her man on to a win on the 2010 edition of Celebrity Big Brother (also featuring none other than her ex-boyfriend Dane Bowers), Katie jetted off to Las Vegas to tie the knot with her new partner in February 2010 after just seven months of dating – and nine months after divorcing Peter. Following their Sin City sojourn, the pair returned to their native UK, where they had a formal ceremony – which was filmed for a TV series. However, after just 11 months of marriage, the pair announced they were splitting and their divorce was finalised in March 2012. While Katie declared at the time that she married Alex ‘too soon’, she would later go on to reveal that a major factor in their split was his cross-dressing alter-ego Roxanne.
KIERAN HAYLER (2013 – 2021)
Showing herself to be a true woman of the times, Katie embarked on a romance with former stripper Kieran after the two met on the now-defunct Blackberry Messenger service in 2012. And just two months after altering the paths of their lives via those thumb-tapped fateful opening messages, the twosome would go on to exchange nuptials in the Caribbean. Kieran proposed to a thrilled Katie on Christmas Day 2012, and just three weeks later, the pair would be pronounced husband and wife in the idyllic shores of the Bahamas on January 16, 2013. They had their marriage blessed in Weston-super Mare, and in the months that followed, it appeared that Katie had finally found her happily ever after. They welcomed son Jett in August 2013, and daughter Bunny in August 2014. But Katie’s world came crashing down in 2014, when she discovered that Kieran had cheated on her with her close friend of 20 years, Jane Pountney, and was enjoying a fling with another of her pals, Chrissy Thomas. After publicly lashing out at all parties involved (and naming her pet pigs after her friends-turned-foes), Katie appeared determined to make things work when she renewed her vows with Kieran in 2015. But alas, it would not turn out to be third time lucky for Katie, as the pair split in 2018 amid even more cheating allegations. Their ‘amicable’ divorce was finalised in early 2021.
