Former glamour model Katie Price is reportedly keen to marry boyfriend, Married at First Sight UK’s JJ Slater, sooner rather than later due to her mum’s health struggles
Katie Price is reportedly keen to marry JJ Slater soon due to her mum’s health issues.
The 46-year-old reality star has been dating the 31-year-old Married at First Sight star since last year. The pair recently sparked speculation that they’d split when Katie spent Christmas Day with pal Kerry Katona, before Katie confirmed this was not the case.
In a heartbreaking update, it’s said Katie is trying to speed up her plans to marry JJ to ensure her mum Amy sees her walk down the aisle. In 2017, Amy was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), which causes scarring to the lungs and makes breathing increasingly difficult.
At the time, Amy was told she had just five years to live, but hopes improved when she underwent a lung transplant in 2022. She went into cardiac arrest and died on the operating table during the transplant, and has good days and bad days with the life-limiting condition.
But a source has told OK! magazine that Amy “can’t do the things that she used to do” due to her battle with IPF. A source told OK!: “Katie is really keen to marry JJ as soon as possible. It’s important that her mum is there with her at the wedding and to walk her down the aisle before it’s too late.
“Her being poorly has made Katie speed everything up and panic. Katie is really keen to marry JJ as soon as possible. It’s important that her mum is there with her at the wedding and to walk her down the aisle before it’s too late. Her being poorly has made Katie speed everything up and panic.”
Speaking recently about her mum’s poor health, Katie said: “People have to understand what my mum’s gone through, like her brain is still so active and switched on. She can’t do the things that she used to do, which is frustrating for her.”
Talking on her podcast, The Katie Price Show, Katie added: “Now here’s an example, because I am a patient person, but when my mother teases me and says, ‘Let’s go look at the shops in Isle of Wight, shall I take my walker or wheelchair?’ and I’m like, ‘No, we’re taking your wheelchair because I’m not taking an hour.’”
In December of last year, Katie revealed she’d love to get married again, hinting she’d like JJ to get a move on and pop the question. “I’d love to get married again! [JJ’s] very old-fashioned, so he hasn’t even put a ring on my finger yet.”
And a source has told the Mirror that Katie wants to prove to mum Amy that she’s “happy” and has managed to ‘find a good one’. It’s said the wedding with JJ would be a low-key affair with a small ground of loved ones, and that Katie’s children would play a “special role”.
The source said: “Harvey will be very much involved and will probably be a pageboy. He gets on really well with JJ. It will be a low-key wedding, not a big affair. It’s going to be a much smaller do than her other weddings, the opposite of when she married Peter.
“She just wants to focus on being with JJ, rather than the extravagance. Although, knowing Katie, there will be something outrageous up her sleeve! But she’s determined to be JJ’s wife – and quickly.”
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