Katie Price's family reveal their upset at how Peter Andre 'stifled' her during 'toxic' marriage as model reflects on their 'unenjoyable' wedding day

Katie Price's family have weighed in on her relationship with Peter Andre, saying it was upsetting to witness how she was treated during their four-year marriage.  

The TV personalities famously said 'I do' in a star-studded affair at Hampshire's Highclere Castle - the setting for hit drama Downton Abbey - in September 2005.

It was a star-studded affair, with the likes of Kerry Katona, Sarah Harding, and Michelle Heaton serving as bridesmaids, while the ceremony was captured and splashed on the front page of OK! magazine, who reportedly paid £1.75 million for the rights.

Yet despite all the glitz and glamour of the ceremony, Katie was unable to enjoy herself, suffering from postnatal depression after welcoming son Junior three months prior, while her family branded the day a 'farce'. 

Speaking on her new documentary, Katie Price: Nothing To Hide, the glamour model, also detailed the breakdown of their union, saying her relationship with Pete was 'the best time of my life... until things went sour'.

Two years after tying the knot with Peter, Katie welcomed daughter Princess and under the advice of her manager Claire Powell, she began to rebrand as Katie Price.

She shifted away from her pseudonym Jordan and moved towards a more family friendly image to help flog merchandise. 

Yet while it made her an even bigger star, Katie confessed: 'I missed Jordan. 

'I missed my identity of it because as much I loved doing all the Katie Price shoots, they are bloody boring, they suck. 

'I love being sexy, that's me. But it started fading away and I sort of hated that. I don't give a f**k about maturing, it's what I enjoy doing. 

'It got vanilla and nobody likes vanilla.'

Amy mused: 'She felt quite stifled with Claire and with Pete. He didn't like her drinking, he didn't like her clothes a lot of the time...' 

Dan, Katie's brother, added: 'Pete doesn't drink so she couldn't have a drink at home because he probably didn't like it. If Kate was to go out, he probably didn't like it.'

Katie continued: 'It got to the point if I wanted to go out it was a big issue. 

'If my friends were going out on the weekend I was like, I've got a week to hint I want to go out. Then I'd end up not doing it because I couldn't be bothered with the arguments. 

'All I wanted to do was let my hair down, everyone's allowed to let your hair down.' 

Katie's sister Sophie recalled: 'Things got really intense. It's nuts how toxic it got.' 

Things came to a head when they moved to the States, with the breakdown of their marriage playing out on their reality show. 

One infamous scene saw Peter brand his then-wife an 'arrogant b***h' in a fiery clash. 

During the row Peter declared: 'You're a f*****g idiot, I hope you learn a lesson and come down a peg or two because you're too far up your own a*se.

'You're too up your own a*se, you're a f*****g arrogant b***h, I'm not having her talk to me like that in front of anyone. F*****g idiot, stupid arrogant little f*****g cow.' 

Discussing the clip, Amy said: 'It's upsetting when you see that.' 

Just a few months later, their marriage came to an end after Katie was accused of having an affair with her dressage trainer Andrew Gould.

'I never wanted to split up with Peter, never ever,' Katie said. 'It hit me hard, like a dagger in the heart... My head, heart, soul, body has been shaken, not right, since.' 

Katie parted ways with manager Claire shortly before the split, whom she claimed 'protected' Peter during their divorce.  

'No one was controlling what I did in the media and it just spiralled out of control,' Katie shared. 'I was on self destruct and it makes my head go dizzy when we talk about it because I wasn't good at all.

'You have to go into survivor mode and you're shocked at the same time, you've got pain at the same time, it's the uncertainty, not being able to sleep, is this really real, is this really happening.

'I was heartbroken. We've never sat down and spoken about it, ever. That's what's eating me up the most.'

Katie also shared more details from their wedding day, admitting she had been unable to enjoy herself on the big day.  

She revealed that the wedding plan was to bring a fairy tale to life, saying they'd initially wanted to get married at Disneyland in one of the castles but they weren't able to. 

So instead they gathered 300 guests at their Highclere Castle wedding, where Katie arrived in a Cinderella-style horse and carriage. 

Laughing about the absurdity of the transport, Katie's stepfather Paul recalled: 'this round ball was wobbling, it was like a spring!

'On the way up I thought is she doing the right thing? I said to Kate, "do you really want to go through with this wedding? Because we can walk away now.' 

Yet with Katie determined that she was going to tie the knot, Paul accompanied her to the church, only to be confused by the guests in attendance. 

'Because it was an OK! thing you had to have people there to look like they were friends, when of course they weren't,' Paul explained. 

'When I was doing the speech I didn't know who I was talking to. I was thinking who are these people? They're not going to know what I'm talking about.'

Katie's mother Amy added: 'It was a bit of a farce, I couldn't take it seriously,' while her sister Sophie recalled: 'the front seats were taken for media not family'. 

Kerry Katona was also bemused by the experience, saying: 'it was like Cinderella on coke and speed and a seven day bender! It was off the f***ing chart.'

For the big day, Katie walked down the aisle in a £45,000 bejewelled pink wedding gown that her mother joked was like a 'big meringue'. 

Katie mused: 'Everything was done around pink and bling. Even my wedding ring was like a f***ing knuckle duster. Heaviest thing ever!' 

Yet the entire day was orchestrated around getting photos of OK! and content for their reality show, with Amy musing: 'there were so many photos taken but I don't think there's any of us as a family. 

'It was upsetting, so not real. I don't think she enjoyed it all. It was all too much for her, you could tell she was depressed.' 

Even former OK! magazine editor Lisa Byrne could sense Katie's mood while overseeing the big day, recalling: 'It was flat. 

'She wasn't herself, she was quite vacant. I felt there was a sadness upon her.' 

Katie then admitted that she hadn't had the big day she'd hoped for, confessing: 'I was trying to enjoy it, I wanted to enjoy it.' 

Three months before the wedding Katie had given birth to her second child, Junior. She suffered with postnatal depression and struggled with the constant pressure of filming every aspect of her life for her reality show with Pete. 

Amy, who thought it was 'really wrong' that Junior's birth had been filmed for the show, began to worry about her daughter's wellbeing, noting: 'by that time she was a commodity. 

'She had no one thinking, "does she need a break?" It was then I realised her life is a reality show, it's existing in stories.' 

Katie and Peter's children also appeared in the documentary, where they discussed how they turned to their father when Katie went off the rails following the collapse of her marriage to third husband Kieran Hayler, spiralling into depression and developing a cocaine addiction. 

Reflecting on the chaotic years, Junior confessed: 'That was probably the most difficult time of my life, our lives', as Princess agreed: 'I didn't know what was going on and I couldn't talk to mum about it because she wasn't there.'

Junior, now 21, continued: 'And when she was there, she wasn't there, and we as siblings just kind of looked after each other.

'I remember me trying to figure out if food was microwavable to feed us for dinner.'

At the age of 14, Junior then left the family home to live with dad Peter, while Princess decided to stay, explaining: 'I always wanted to be there for her but she didn't understand that at the time because she was so hooked up in her own problems.'

Junior continued: 'Thank god that my dad was stable because that's the house that I went to and gained my sanity back while I was wishing and hoping that my mum would come back and turn herself around.

'It made me feel like I wasn't good enough because she wasn't fixing herself for me, she wasn't thinking herself for us - why?'

Things came to a head when Katie, who was battling suicidal thoughts, flipped her car while driving under the influence in the early hours of the morning in September 2021. 

Elsewhere in the documentary, Katie revealed that her mental health has not been the same since she split from Peter nearly two decades ago. 

She shared: 'That had an impact on me for the rest of my life, on my mental health. 

'Ever since then I've been trying to find the same thing that I had with Peter.'

Katie then described her ideal man, saying they had to be older, able to treat her, someone who won't leech on her and isn't looking for fame. 

During filming, it emerged that Katie had met and married her fourth husband - so-called businessman Lee. 

Sharing his reaction to the news his mother married Lee Andrews in Dubai after days of knowing him, Junior sighed: 'This is the most silliest, stupidest thing. 

'Marrying a guy you don't even know, this just sums it up, this is my mum, this is what she does.' 

Lee has been accused by multiple exes of conning them, most recently being accused of taking £5,000 from a 'vulnerable woman' in another alleged scam.

He has denied being involved in any cons. 

Lee then set the internet alight when he seemingly disappeared into thin air, after Katie initially claimed he had been kidnapped. It then emerged Lee was being held at Dubai's notorious Al-Awir prison.

Despite mounting evidence that fraud was the cause for his arrest, self-proclaimed 'millionaire' Lee insisted that he was imprisoned on suspicion of espionage 'and held in a state security building' before being taken to prison over 'a civil case in Dubai'.

In an Instagram post shared in the early hours of Wednesday, Lee continued to insist there is 'not one shred of evidence' that he has been charged with fraud, hitting out at his ex fiancée Alana for spreading the story.

He claimed he was 'taken to the Qatar border by the men, at gunpoint and was captured by men with assault rifles' before adding: 'They did slap me round a little bit, little s***s.'

Lee is Katie's fourth husband. She was first married to Peter for three years until 2009. 

Nine months later she tied the knot again with cage fighter Alex Reid, who also appeared on the documentary and expressed his distaste at Katie publicly discussing their sex life in interviews. 

They separated in January 2011 and exactly two years she wed Kieran Hayler, the father of her youngest children. They split in 2018 after he admitted to being unfaithful multiple times throughout their marriage. 

Peter chose not to appear in the documentary but issued this statement: 'I have chosen not to speak publicly about these matters out of love and respect for Junior and Princess. 

'Today Katie and I maintain an amicable relationship in the interests of our children. I sincerely wish her happiness and peace for the future.' 

In February, Katie and Peter issued a joint statement in which they vowed to 'move forward' from their fallout. 

It read: 'Katie Price and Peter Andre have decided to close the door on the past and move forward into a new chapter with positivity and respect. 

'We are both focused on creating a calm and supportive environment for our children. We have reached a mutual agreement, both legally and personally, confirming that neither of us will speak negatively about the other going forward.'

Her former manager Claire's statement read: 'Our priority has always been to protect and support the clients we represent. 

'We have always been fiercely loyal to them but every decision they make is ultimately their own. We have never forced any client to do work they did not want to do. 

'Together, we agreed that introducing more of Katie Price would be the right direction for the long-term career she wanted to build. 

'After investing so many years in helping to build her Katie Price brand, it would have made no sense whatsoever to create a negative narrative around her.' 

Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, a four-part Sky Original series, is available on Sky and streaming service NOW.