Break-up rumours, wild sex and surgery disasters - inside Katie and Peter's American adventure

By Georgina Dickinson
Photography by Richard McClaren

All is calm at the Malibu mansion. Not even the distant hum of freeway traffic can disrupt the peace of the surrounding hills. Then, without warning, a shriek shatters the silence and pandemonium erupts.

Katie Price, 30, struts into the rented £20million property looking every inch the LA star. She may be only a size 6 and 5ft 4in, but everything about her is big. The raven hair, the sunglasses, the Day-Glo teeth, the personality and yes, the big mouth. Peter Andre, 36, is beside her, flexing his perma-tanned muscles and lovingly nipping her bottom. Together the couple are a force 10 hurricane, whipping up a frenzy and flattening everything in their path.

“Katie, look!” Pete yells, stuffing a T-shirt down the front of his eyewateringly tight black Dolce & Gabbana boxers. “Do you fancy me even more now?”

“It’ll take more than that,” comes Katie’s lightning-quick reply, accompanied by her trademark dirty cackle.

The Katie and Peter circus has arrived. Love them or loathe them, there’s no ignoring them – something that LA, their home for the past two months, is no doubt learning.

Fabulous is here to catch up with the couple, but frankly we’re a little unsure what to expect. Before we left Blighty, there were rumours that their relationship was on the rocks. Will Katie be talking to Peter? Will Peter be talking to Katie? Heck, will they be talking to us?

As it turns out, all our fears are unfounded – rather like those whispers of an impending break-up. After an exhilarating – and totally exhausting – day with the couple, we can confirm that their relationship is as solid as Pete’s legendary six-pack. Yes, they fight, they bicker – but they can’t keep their hands off each other or stop drooling over each other like a pair of soppy teenagers. When Katie poses in her revealing swimsuit, Pete leans over and tells us in an awestruck whisper: “OK, so she can be moody and hard work. But just look at her!”

And Katie is equally gushing: “I fancy him like mad. Everyone is always saying we’re on the rocks, but we both know the truth. What you see is what you get with me and Pete. We’ve got nothing to hide.”

In fact, if anything, America has given the couple’s love life a boost.

“Coming to California has really bonded us and we’re more in love now than when we first met. Plus in LA I get to lust at Pete’s body because he’s got his chest out all the time. And that just makes me want to drag him off for wild sex even more than before.” A little too much information, Katie…

The pair moved from their £2.5million home in Woldingham, Surrey, to Malibu with their three kids – six-year-old Harvey (Katie’s son with footballer Dwight Yorke), Junior, three, and one-year-old Princess Tiáamii – in February.

In a land where people think nothing of nip/tucks, Katie is feeling right at home. One of the first things on her LA shopping list was a new pair of lips. Although sadly, when things went wrong, she couldn’t simply take them back for a refund.

“I’ve had my lips done twice,” she says. “But they’re the one thing I really wish I’d never touched.

“They’re back to normal now, thank God – for a while I looked like Daffy Duck. But I wasn’t embarrassed to go out here with them puffed up because in LA everyone looks like that. Everyone’s had surgery. And why not? If you don’t like something about yourself, why not change it?”

Unlike some celebrities, Katie is totally honest about the surgery she’s undergone. Her four breast augmentations and lipo are reported to have set her back £43,000. She also had a nose job last year, paid for by Pete. (“The fact Pete paid for it means I love it even more.”) And who can possibly survive in Tinseltown without Hollywood teeth? “Everyone has huge, white, sparkly teeth, so I’ve got some new ones too,” Katie explains.

She and Pete are also partial to a little Botox to keep wrinkles at bay. Although even Katie admits she may have taken this too far. “Give us a wink,” shouts the photographer, as she strikes a pose. “I can’t – I’ve had too much Botox to wink,” she retorts back.

She has, however, vowed to shelve any more plans for surgical self-improvement.

“Pete hates me changing my body. It’s one of the things we do row about,” she admits. “Every time I go in to have something done, he’s terrified something will go wrong.”

“I have begged her to stop,” Peter chips in. “She’s beautiful just the way she is and I hate the thought of her being sliced open. But she’s her own person, so what can I do? I’m her husband, not her dad.”

But there could be trouble on the horizon if daughter Princess Tiáamii develops her mother’s taste for nip/tucks.

“I don’t wish Princess to have surgery when she’s older, but if she wants it, who am I to stop her?” says Katie. “Pete, on the other hand, will do everything to stop her. The thought of his little girl going under the surgeon’s knife would tip him over the edge.”

For Katie, surgery is all about making her body the best it can be – and stopping Pete from straying.

“As far as I’m concerned, any woman who lets herself go is pushing her husband into having an affair,” she explains. “Why would Pete want to sleep with me if I was fat and saggy? It’s just not an option for me, although I do have days when I look at myself and say: ‘Look at my saggy stomach, it’s disgusting.’” For the record, this is a woman without sag. She could crack coconuts with her thighs, and other things, as Peter is acutely aware!

Speaking of which… fidelity is clearly something that plays on Katie’s mind. Although she says she now manages to control her irrational worries.

“I used to get jealous about Pete looking at other girls, but these days I know he only has eyes for me,” she says. “Here there are beautiful women everywhere, but I know my husband is not interested in any of them.”

This calmer Katie Price is perhaps a product of how at home she feels in LA.

“I’ve not felt homesick once since we arrived,” she says. “The kids are just so happy here. We’ve taken them to Disneyland, Legoland and Universal Studios. It’s like being on a permanent holiday.”

The couple are in LA filming the sixth series of their reality show, Katie And Peter: The Next Chapter Stateside, for ITV2. Peter is also spending time writing and recording his new album. “It’s contemporary and edgy. I think everyone will be surprised,” he says.

Their Hollywood adventure is going so well, they’re even considering trading in their £70,000-a-month villa for their own mansion so they can spend half the year in America.

“We don’t ever want to make it our permanent home,” Katie says. “But it’s so nice not being bothered everywhere we go.”

Katie has found being unknown in the US a blessing, not a curse. Their relative anonymity has allowed them to let off steam.

“We’ve had a couple of boozy nights out since we arrived,” says Katie. “One night we went to a Hollywood club and both got trashed. But those nights are rare. Plus we’re training for the London Marathon, so we’re trying not to drink too much.”

The couple are hoping to raise thousands of pounds for the charity Vision, which supports their partially blind son Harvey.

“We’re training hard. The furthest we’ve done so far is 18 miles, which was a killer,” says Katie. “I repeatedly said to Pete that I thought I was going to die. But we did it.”

For the race itself, Katie says she’s going to tie a lead saying ‘together forever’ between her and Pete so she can’t lose him, and, of course, she’s got an attention-grabbing outfit planned.

“I’m wearing an orange all-in-one Lycra catsuit so you won’t miss me,” she laughs.

Hours pounding the pavement have left Katie with a marathon runner’s body that, unbelievably, she loathes.

“I’ve put on 10lb of muscle and hate it,” she says. “Pete loves the way I look now, but I want my skinny legs back.”

But there is an upside. Katie can now eat whatever she wants, and describes herself as a “human dustbin”. Gone is her juice diet, which helped her lose 2st after giving birth to Princess, and instead she eats healthy meals like the salmon and broccoli salad she demolished during the shoot.

Even though she’s loving her food right now, calling in kitchen staff to indulge her appetite is strictly off the menu.

“They wanted £350 a day just to cook a few meals!” exclaims Katie. “In any case, Pete cooks perfectly well – and he’s free.”

Despite their vast wealth, estimated at £30million, Katie and Peter haven’t splashed their cash in LA.

“The only things I’ve bought are about 1,000 coat hangers from the supermarket and a pair of roller skates,” she says.

The glamorous Hollywood party circuit hasn’t turned their heads either. When they attended Elton John’s all-night post-Oscars party with Simon Cowell, they bailed at midnight, shattered.

Their contentment with their life explains why, unlike other expat A-listers, they aren’t anxious to ingratiate themselves with Hollywood’s showbiz elite.

“My pet hate is those celebs who name drop at every opportunity about their famous mates,” says Katie.

“I’ve got all the friends I need and I didn’t come to LA to find more. The amount of famous people who have come up to me and asked for my number, then not called, makes me so angry. It’s such shallow behaviour. But I don’t care. I’ve got Pete and my children. I’ve got everything I want.”

Other than more kids that is. “Later this year we’re going to try for another baby,” she adds. “And we won’t stop until we have eight.”