Katie Price autobiography: Dwight Yorke met Harvey after his birthday - I never spoke to him again - Mirror Online Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Katie Price may be a new mother to Jett Rivera but her eldest son Harvey has a very special place in her heart. In her latest extract from explosive autobiography Love, Lipstick And Lies, serialised in The Sun, she reveals how their relationship has blossomed and how Harvey's biological father, footballer Dwight Yorke, vanished from their lives. Katie Price and son Harvey (Photo: Twitter) Harvey, now 11, was born with a limited pituitary gland and suffers from a range of disorders, including Autism, which means he struggles to produce certain hormones. Katie writes that although Harvey can be a handful - smashing TVs and oven doors if shocked - he has a rewarding life thanks to her family. "Harvey and I have a very close bond. My mum Amy and his teachers say that everything he does is for Mummy and that he always wants them to tell me how well he has done at school.", she writes.

Dwight Yorke and Jordan back in the day (Photo: REX FEATURES) But sadly, Harvey does not have such a close relationship with biological father Dwight, 41. The former Aston Villa footballer disputed he was Harvey's father and according to Katie, only spoke to his son on his tenth birthday after her mum called his manager. "I think Dwight was gobsmacked when Harvey said to him, 'So, when am I seeing you?'" The trio met at a Manchester restaurant in November last year. Katie writes: "It wasn’t a friendly meeting and I didn’t hear from Dwight afterwards. It’s such a shame. All I can say is that he is missing out on a very special little boy. "Personally, I think he is scared of seeing Harvey...Dwight should try.

He would get so much love in return." Love, Lipstick And Lies, by Katie Price, published by Century on October 24, price £18.99 © Katie Price Like us on Facebook Katie Price on her close bond with son Harvey | Daily Mail Online Next 'He's perfect to me': Katie Price on her close bond with Harvey and how she had to beg father Dwight Yorke to phone him on his birthday Autistic Harvey was recently diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and Oppositional Defiance Disorder and without regular medication he would die. Katie has: 'lost count of the number of televisions' her 11-year-old son Harvey has smashed. His dad footballer Dwight Yorke doesn't play a part in his life. Katie reveals family life in her SIXTH autobiography Love, Lipstick And Lies. Katie Price shares cute picture of son Harvey reading to baby Jett - Celebrity News News - Reveal Katie Price shares cute picture of son Harvey reading to baby Jett Published Friday, Sep 19 2014, 15:13 BST | By Lara Martin | Katie Price has shared a beautiful picture of her eldest child Harvey reading to youngest son Jett. Aww.

© The mother-of-five uploaded the touching family moment to her YouGossip account overnight, adding the caption: "My Harvey reading a book to Jett. Sooo cute." Harvey is twelve years old and he's Katie's eldest child. His dad is former footballer Dwight Yorke. Jett, meanwhile, is just one year old. His dad is Katie's husband Kieran Hayler. © Katie shared this sweet snap of Harvey and Jett back in August. Alongside the adorable sibling moment, model Katie also shared another picture of Harvey, saying: "So proud of my baby boy. I love him more than words can describe." Katie posted the picture to encourage fans to donate to Jeans for Genes, saying they can "make a difference" to children like Harvey. The organisation raises money for Genetic Disorders UK and works with children born with genetic disorders and their families. © Little Harvey has Septo-Optim Dysplasia and autism, as well as mobility and behavioural problems. Since his birth, Katie has devoted much time to raising awareness for his condition and supporting charities. Katie has three other children: Princess and Junior, from her marriage to Peter Andre, and newborn baby daughter Bunny, her second child with husband Kieran.

Katie Price's 'perfect boy Harvey': Denunciation of Frankie Boyle's vile slur | Daily Mail Online comments My son, Harvey, turned nine last month, and we held a little party to celebrate. The only guests were immediate family — too much activity causes Harvey stress and his behaviour can become disruptive — but he did have a big cake decorated with a picture of a frog. Harvey loves cakes. He always enjoys blowing out the candles, and he adores frogs. They are his latest obsession. He draws them so carefully — the bulging eyes, the long back legs — and colours them in bright green. Devoted: Katie Price with her son Harvey, who recently turned nine, says she would never swap him for an able-bodied child At the moment, every scrap of paper in the house is covered in leaping frogs. The cake and the frog obsession explain a lot about Harvey. Most mothers of nine-year-olds might boast that their child is learning French or the violin. I’m just pleased and proud that Harvey can draw, observe and see colours. Soon after he was born, I was told he had a serious problem with his sight. Later, I learned that he was blind.

Actually, he has some residual vision, and he is brilliant at using it. He recognises colours and shapes. He has even learned to turn them into pictures. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share He draws the same things obsessively, over and over again. First it was aeroplanes, then rainbows, now it’s frogs. That’s down to his autism. Like most children with the condition, he periodically gets fixated on one subject. He is also compulsive about routines. Nothing must disturb Harvey’s ordered world, or there is hell to pay. The cake is another matter. Harvey eats and eats, and if I did not stop him he would do so continually. He is prone to weight-gain, but he is not greedy. Relentless: A scene from Katie: Standing Up For Harvey, shows the glamour model cradling her son Harvey He has a clinical condition — I’ll come to that later — which means he can’t control his appetite. The hormones that control his growth are also out of kilter. So he is bigger than most kids. But to the ignorant, Harvey is just a big, fat, blind kid — and he has been called that many times.

I can’t overstate the outrage and revulsion I felt when I heard Boyle's attack on my vulnerable, disabled son I’ve only skimmed the surface of the problems facing my much-loved eldest child, but by now you know enough about Harvey’s disabilities to understand the hurdles he leaps each day. So you will understand the extent of my shock and anger when I learned that Frankie Boyle, the comedian — though he barely deserves the title — had singled my son out to be the butt of a vile ‘joke’. To convey the full impact of what Boyle said on his Channel 4 ‘comedy’ show last December, I must, I’m afraid, repeat his offensive remarks in full. To begin with, he said my ex-husband, Peter Andre, and I had been fighting over custody of Harvey. ‘Eventually one of them will lose and have to keep him,’ Boyle said. That is the type of cruel offence we expect disabled people to accept. If you are disabled, you are a burden, and people want rid of you. Then Boyle made a remark so offensive it has no place in civilised society.

Referring to my second marriage, to Alex Reid — we have since separated — he said: ‘I have a theory about the reason Jordan married a cage-fighter — she needed a man strong enough to stop Harvey from f***ing her.’ I can’t overstate the outrage and revulsion I felt when I heard this attack on my vulnerable, disabled son. I am used to defending myself against insults and, at times, justified criticism. Vile slur: Frankie Boyle made comments about Katie's son Harvey on his Channel 4 show Tramadol Nights I don’t deny there are aspects of my own life and past that have been controversial. I’ve made mistakes in equal measure to my success, but I can answer back — and I do. Harvey can’t. Boyle’s remark is vile on so many levels. Sadly, I’ve grown used to insensitive jokes about Harvey’s size. When Heat magazine published a sticker with the words ‘Harvey wants to eat me!’ across it, I was appalled. But at least the magazine apologised. Boyle and Channel 4 have done neither. Boyle’s disgusting suggestion slandered my innocent son and insulted every disabled person in Britain.

Imagine if the reason Boyle gave for saying Harvey was capable of raping me was not because of his disability but because he is black. People would understand how discriminatory that is. It is just as discriminatory when the joke is based on someone’s disability. That is why I have decided to talk openly, and in detail, about Harvey for the first time. Tonight my television documentary about him, Katie: Standing Up For Harvey, introduces viewers to my campaign on behalf of every disabled child and adult in Britain. I hope that, through the programme, Harvey’s disabilities will highlight the difficulties — and also the positives — faced by children with disabilities, and their families. I have been forced to consider my role in putting Harvey in the firing line for Boyle’s humour. He, and Channel 4, have pointed out that I have put Harvey in the public domain by being photographed and filmed with him. As a result, I have been accused of hypocrisy. I understand that to an extent, and take it on the chin. But I have spent a lot of time talking to people and organisations who see Harvey as a positive role model, and I decided it was in my son’s interest — and in the interest of raising disability awareness — that he play a public role.

This is no justification for the discrimination Harvey has suffered. I want people to stop and think before they make crass jokes against people who can’t defend themselves. Although the media regulator Ofcom upheld 500 complaints about Boyle’s remarks, and condemned Channel 4 for broadcasting them, it didn’t demand an on-air apology. Why not? The daddy: Former football Dwight Yorke, left, is Harvey's father. Harvey, right as a toddler, was born in 2002 in Brighton The decision was indefensible. As the broadcaster of the Paralympics, Channel 4 is, I feel, guilty of double-standards. They should never have broadcast Boyle’s foul joke. Even the Cabinet Minister responsible for broadcasting, Jeremy Hunt — and a committee of MPs — condemned Channel 4, and its boss David Abrahams, for refusing to apologise. To me, Harvey, will always be my perfect boy. I would not swap him for an able-bodied child Since April, when Ofcom made its ruling, I have repeatedly asked Boyle, Abrahams and Channel 4 to apologise, to Harvey and to me. They have ignored my requests. Would they have been so blasé if Boyle’s slur had been racist?

No chance. So how would I like Boyle — a father-of-two who, I have since learned, once worked in a care home — to make amends for his insult? Aside from an apology, I would also like him to learn some respect for those who are not able-bodied. Perhaps he would like to visit Harvey and spend a day in his shoes? He would learn a valuable lesson. From Harvey’s example, Boyle might just begin to understand the nature of innocence. Harvey has a greeting he learned from me as a little boy. ‘Hello sweetheart,’ he says, as he rubs his finger along your chin. He is funny, too, and a wonderful mimic. He catches exactly the tone of his nanny’s voice — I have one day-time helper who does not live in — when she says: ‘See you later. Byeee!’ It is not easy dealing with Harvey’s challenging behaviour. To me, however, he will always be my perfect boy. I would not swap him for an able-bodied child, or send him to live in residential care. My home will be his until the day I die and beyond — but looking after him is relentless. He can’t be left alone for a moment; we have to watch his every move.

Katie rubs some cream into her son's leg as he sits in his bed before sleeping. She calls looking after Harvey 'relentless' So how did it all begin? Harvey was born in May 2002 in hospital in Brighton. His dad is the former footballer Dwight Yorke. I was besotted with my first baby (I’ve since had a son, Junior, six, and daughter Princess, four, with Peter Andre). Frankie Boyle's 'joke' insulted every disabled person in Britain He was a calm, happy, adorable little boy. But when, at his routine six-week check, doctors told me his eyes were not following a moving object, that they were not focusing properly, I steeled myself for the worst. But I didn’t cry. I think of myself as resilient, strong and resourceful. I just prepared myself for the journey ahead. It hasn’t been an easy one. We learned the full extent of Harvey’s disabilities little by little. To the ill-informed, Harvey may just appear to be fat and blind. To those of us who know the details, he faces many physical challenges.

He has septo-optic dysplasia, which causes his vision problems, and abnormalities in the pituitary gland, which controls growth and physical development. He also has Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic condition affecting the area of the brain that controls appetite. He is always thirsty, and always wants to eat. Being autistic, he can be disruptive if his routine is suddenly changed without warning. Harvey has taught me the virtue of patience. And, through him, too, I have learned the value of unconditional love. My dear mum, Amy, gave up a much-loved job to help me care for him. If I am not there for the school run — and it’s a two-handed job because Harvey’s school is in Kent, while Junior and Princess go to schools in East Sussex — Mum will step in to help our nanny ferry the kids to school. Happier times: Katie Price with her husband Peter Andre, with whom she had two children, Junior and Princess Harvey’s morning routine cannot be altered. Sometimes a tiny change in the order of things — his toast cut into the wrong shape at breakfast time or a window slamming — will send him into a frenzy of kicking and punching.

There would be no difference in the care a boy like Harvey needs whether he was born into privilege or poverty Our TVs are all covered with shatter-proof Perspex panels. I’ve lost count of the number of laptops and screens he has smashed. And if he doesn’t want to get into the car, he will sprawl on the floor, launch his head at a wall, or hit out at anyone in his path. But on the days when he feels happy, he charms us all. He will sit in the car with me, urging me to go fast over the speed bumps. To Harvey, a car journey can be as much fun as a day at a theme park. He speaks beautifully — we joke that he is the ‘posh’ member of the family — and his memory is wonderful. Sometimes he’ll repeat phrases we’d rather he forgot. ‘What’s happened to the bloody boiler?’ I heard him parroting the other day, after I’d been complaining months ago about the pool not heating up. No doubt you’ll be thinking at this point: ‘Isn’t she lucky?

She can afford a pool, a lovely home, a nanny.’ Of course, I am so much more fortunate than many parents who are caring, bravely and often without outside help, for disabled children. I know this and I appreciate that, in this respect at least, I am blessed. Care: Katie soothes Harvey while she has her hair done in a still from tonight's programme But there would be no difference in the care a boy like Harvey needs whether he was born into privilege or poverty, and I understand the pressure that having such a child can put on any family. Every day, six times a day, he needs medication to control and treat his various conditions. His drugs must be taken at 7am, 8am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm, 4.30pm and 8pm. Every night before bed, there are two oral medicines which Harvey likes to take himself, and an injection which I give him (he chooses which leg). Without his drugs, he dies — it’s as simple as that. I don’t think about the day I’m no longer here to care for him, though I’ve made financial arrangements for him to be looked after always.

As long as I have breath and life, he will live at home with me. We have good days and bad days, funny days and challenging days, but I do not focus on what Harvey cannot do. He is my son and I love him to bits, which is why I will fight like a tigress for him — and for millions of children like him — against bullies like Frankie Boyle and the broadcasters who air him. Boyle may think his humour is brave and ground-breaking. I think it’s pitiful, sickening and cruel. If he met my son, I think he’d feel remorse and shame for the remarks he made. Every day I learn about love, fortitude and patience from Harvey. He is my perfect boy. He is my inspiration. Katie: Standing Up For Harvey is on Sky Living tonight at 9pm.

Pregnant Katie Price talks disabled son Harvey: "I want the best for him" - Celebrity News News - Reveal Pregnant Katie Price talks disabled son Harvey: "I want the best for him" Published Tuesday, Jul 8 2014, 15:43 BST | By Olivia Heath | Submit Pregnant Katie Price has opened up about the challenges of bringing up her disabled son Harvey, saying she would "not change it for anything". Katie talked about life with 12-year-old son Harvey, who suffers from a range of disorders, during her FUBAR Radio show this morning (8 July). © Daniel Deme/WENN.com Katie with son Harvey (2012). "Having a child with disabilities is hard work and I would not change it for anything," said 36-year-old Katie. "Harvey has so much medication each day and if he doesn't, he'd die basically." Harvey has a string of disabilities including blindness, autism, ADHD and Prader-Willi syndrome (a genetic disorder meaning he's likely to eat to excess).

Former glamour model Katie told listeners that Harvey - whose father is her former footballer Dwight Yorke - gets "easier" to look after the older he becomes. "I have a nanny Monday to Friday for Harvey, but now he's getting older, it's getting easier," she said. "He's getting more vocal." Katie, who is also mum to nine-year-old son Junior and six-year-old daughter Princess from her marriage to Peter Andre, as well as 10-month-old son Jett with current husband Kieran Hayler, said she sometimes feels "guilty" when Harvey goes away on school trips. © WENN.com Katie leaving FUBAR Radio this afternoon. "Harvey can board at his school but I like him to come home," Katie explained. "He's going on a two-week school holiday soon and I feel so guilty, but he went camping last week and he absolutely loved it. "Harvey's a 12-year-old going through puberty. A normal 12-year-old would be getting themselves bathed and washed.

He goes to school an hour away from where he lives instead of a local school because I want the best for him." Katie, who is expecting her fifth child - a girl - with Kieran, said her experience with Harvey has made her "appreciate" what other families have to go through. "Being a full time mum is a hard job," Katie continued. "When I'm out and I see families with kids in wheelchairs, I can appreciate how hard it is to get them ready and get them in the car etc. It's not easy but you're never a failure. Always talk about it. There is help out there if you look for it." More stars who have announced pregnancies this year: Browse Reveal's gallery for all 2014's celebrity pregnancy announcements! 1 of 27 0 12 year old charms Eamonn Holmes during interview with his mum on This Morning Katie Price's eldest son Harvey has revealed his cheeky side in a recent TV interview by referring to his mum as "babe". Sat on the This Morning sofa with her eldest son, Katie Price explained how difficult it is to raise a child with disabilities.

But Harvey, who suffers from Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), quickly stole the show with an affectionate quip directed towards his mother. The 12-year-old turned on his charm during the interview with Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford, and had everyone in stitches when he referred to his mum as "babe". During the interview Katie, a mum-of-5, said that caring for Harvey is hard work but because he was her first child she doesn't know any different. "He is hard work - you do play up for mummy sometimes don’t you Harvs?” she said. "Yeah babe!" Harvey replied. Which made Eamonn – and us – laugh out loud. He must have picked it up from his mum! Harvey, whose father is former Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke, has septo-optic dysplasia, which causes blindness and growth hormone deficiency. He also has Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a genetic disorder that means he is likely to eat to excess and is prone to obesity and diabetes; as well as ADHD and autism. "He just wants to eat, eat, eat and if we're not looking he will steal food," Katie said.

"He's a big boy because of his thyroid and with Prader-Willi everything is about food. “He’s on the autistic spectrum as well, and obviously he’s 12 so he’s heading towards the teenage stage so he’s going to have them hormones on top of the behavioural." Speaking about Harvey's strict routines, Katie explained how much her mother had helped. “Mum did it for about 11 years and was in the car with him, but now Kieran is so good with him. I said to my mum, ‘you can’t do this for 11 years, you have got a life as well.’ So it’s just me and Kieran that does it.” After her appearance on the show, Katie was overwhelmed with support from fans. "Thanks for all your messages about my little prince Harvey today, he makes me the proudest mum xx," she tweeted. Watch the interview below...

Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey shows how far he's come as he cheekily calls her babe in heartwarming interview - Mirror Online Katie Price’s disabled son Harvey shows how far he's come as he cheekily calls her babe in heartwarming interview The 12-year-old chatted away happily on This Morning, joined by his mum and grandma Share Click to playTap to play The video will start in 8Cancel Play now Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email He used to regularly appear on her reality TV show but it’s been a number of years since Katie Price ’s son Harvey has been in the public eye. But in honour of Mother’s Day the 12-year-old appeared on This Morning alongside Katie and her mother Amy today. And he delighted the audience, as well as Ruth and Eamonn, as he showed just how far he has come in recent years. Amy, Harvey and Katie (Photo: ITV) Harvey, who’s father is Dwight Yorke, revealed his cheeky side when Katie asked him “you do play up for mummy sometimes don’t, you?” and he replied “yeah babe”.

Throughout the interview the eldest of her children, who must take life saving medication and a hormone injection every day, demonstrated his infectious personality. He revealed he can now read without Braille, play the piano, and do makaton sign language. Adorable: Katie Price with son Harvey in 2004 But when asked what his favourite instrument to play is – he replied: “I like playing the stamping feet instrument!” When Eamonn asked what his favourite song is, he said: “Skyfall, Adele”. Speaking about dealing with Harvey, Katie said: “Because he was my first I don’t know any different. He is hard work.” Harvey was extremely well behaved (Photo: ITV) But she went on to say how she copes with the help of her mother, who has been a constant support in his life. She also revealed that Kieran looks after Harvey a lot and is “so good” with him. The business women admitted that Harvey’s prader willis is the hardest of his disabilities to live with over septo octo dysplasia and his autism. She said: “It means he just wants to eat, eat, eat.

Harvey and Katie Price at Christmas 2003 (Photo: REX FEATURES) “It affects his behaviour because everything is about food.” Katie will be joined by all of her children this Mother’s Day, including Princess and Junior, from her relationship with Peter Andre. Revealing her plans she said: “I’ll be poisoning my mother with my cooking on Sunday. We’ve got all the kids, it’ll be a mad house.” Would you like to see more of Harvey on TV?

3000+ VOTES SO FAR Yes - he was such a lovely little boy No - it'd be far too much pressure for him Maybe - if he could have cameos every now and then Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent Most Read Most Recent Katie Price: Harvey and me – tantrums and tough love | Media | The Guardian Katie Price: Harvey and me – tantrums and tough love Katie Price, reality TV star and former glamour model, on raising a son with profound disabilities Katie Price: 'All the money in the world isn’t going to buy him a pair of eyes or change his autism.' Photographs: Zed Nelson for the Guardian Friday 28 September 2012 18.01 EDT First published on Friday 28 September 2012 18.01 EDT Share on Messenger Close Katie Price has had a set of cards printed, which (when she remembers) she keeps in her bag so that when she sees people staring at her son, Harvey, she can simply hand them one and walk away. The card says: "You're obviously looking because you're interested.

This is his condition… Look up what's wrong with him and if you want to donate to a charity that supports children like this, then do it." It's an efficient way of dealing with the ignorance and incomprehension that she confronts surprisingly often. She has noticed that the hostile stares are worse in places such as Selfridges and Harrods. Price – ex-glamour model, reality TV star, heroine of her own endlessly promoted life story, with its relentless updates splashed on the magazine covers stacked by every supermarket checkout in the land – is famous for her brashly outspoken tone. But she is particularly unsentimental in the way she talks about her 10-year-old son, who has septo-optic dysplasia , which causes blindness and growth hormone deficiency; Prader-Willi syndrome , a genetic disorder that means he is likely to eat to excess and is prone to obesity and diabetes; as well as ADHD and autism. Price's default position on how she has coped with bringing up a child with serious disabilities is a robust, "Well, you just get on with it, don't you?" Her hopes for his future? "Oh – he's going to have a shit life.

Isn't he?" she says, laughing and turning to her mother, Amy, and older brother, Danny, who are sitting next to her around the large circular table in her kitchen – a setting familiar to anyone who watches her reality television shows , now in their 11th year. She adds after a pause: "Ha ha. No, I'm joking." But she's very blunt in her assessment of the likelihood of Harvey ever finding a suitable job. Her mother is explaining that she thinks, given the progress he has been making recently, she could see him working as an assistant in a garden centre, for example, until Kate interrupts her: "Mum, he won't be working in a shop at the moment, because if someone says something to him, he'll turn around and bash them one. We all know what he's like." Her other children, Junior, seven, and Princess, five, have learned to be wary of Harvey, she says. "Any kids that come to the house, they run a mile from Harvey.

He might be sitting here one minute, then he'd turn and whack them one because he likes to hear kids cry – he finds it funny." She says she can't remember the number of televisions he's smashed during a tantrum ("Don't know. Lost count") and a handyman has just been over to replace the kitchen television, which Harvey broke by headbutting it over the weekend, managing to crack the glass screen, even though it was protected by a shield of Perspex. This brutal honesty in her description of bringing up a son with profound disabilities is far removed from the whispery way with which the subject is often dealt. She doesn't like to "pussyfoot" around the issue, she says, and her experience of bringing up her son under the critical scrutiny of the public eye has forced her to develop a toughness that can be a bit disconcerting.

It's less surprising when you remember that when he was first diagnosed as partially blind, at around two months, a newspaper blamed her for causing the problem by partying when she was pregnant; that magazines have mocked her son's appearance cruelly; and that she has been involved in a long-running dispute with Channel 4 over its decision first to broadcast comedian Frankie Boyle making exceptionally crude jokes about her son , and its subsequent refusal to apologise. "He basically said that the only reason I married a cage fighter was to stop Harvey from raping me. He's insinuating that because he's got disabilities, he's more likely to rape his own mother," she says, flatly. She has repeatedly invited Boyle (whom she describes as "that dickhead of a comedian") to come and meet her son, an invitation that has received no response. "It's all right him taking the mickey out of people who can answer back, but Harvey's a kid and he can't speak for himself.

I need to defend him against that." She thinks Boyle's humour stems from ignorance, adding with sharp candour, "If his wife or kids got in an accident and got paralysed from the neck down, it would absolutely change his life, and I'm sure he'd think twice about making jokes about people." Beneath the thick-skinned exterior, there is – of course – an absolute, unwavering devotion to Harvey, who comes across as both occasionally difficult and really lovely, and who clearly stands at the centre of his mother's life, loved not only by her, but by her extended family. Normally when Price gives an interview, it's because she's promoting something she's selling, and obviously her entire business model is based on her willingness to lay bare uncomfortable bits of her existence for general consumption. Today, it seems that she might really only be talking about bringing up her son because she genuinely believes it's better if people confront the issue, rather than sweeping it under the carpet. But it's hard to be certain.

She's still in the bath when the photographer and I arrive, so we're ushered to wait in the silver room (thick silver carpet, silver velvet sofa, two floor-to-ceiling mirrors in silver velvet frames and a massive silvery portrait of Price) and her mum comes and chats for 10 minutes about how she's just got back from three months working with slum children in Goa, until Price runs down the curved stairwell, bursting with friendliness and charm, red nails gleaming, wearing nothing except a tiny white towel. I'm assuming that she's going to take a while to get dressed before we start talking, but she wants to get on with it, so we move into the kitchen where two hairdressers are waiting to dry her hair. "I'm going to have the hairdryer on while we talk," she says, and I say, "Sure, fine." Which is a mistake, because I haven't appreciated quite how much hair she has and how long the process takes. Conversation is occasionally rather puzzling, because it goes "I think…" – psshsshshshshs – "What I mean is…" – ppsshshshshssssh – as the senior stylist scorches her hair dry.

Meanwhile, friends and family drift in and out of the large kitchen; at one point later on, there are seven people and Price's three children milling about, putting on makeup, cooking, chatting around the big marble island in the centre of the kitchen – which, as viewers of Price's reality television show will know, is themed with snakeskin fittings around the fridge, stove and kitchen units. The TV shows don't convey the strong smell wafting from the many scented candles that are lit on the counters, and the cameras probably don't zoom in so much on the disability living allowance application forms and statement of educational needs documentation which is piled up today next to a vast pink makeup suitcase, overflowing with false eyelashes and blusher. Harvey appears later, after Price has nipped out to collect her younger children (rushing upstairs to put on an explosively orange T-shirt, electric blue three-quarter-length trousers and a baseball cap, and shouting, "I don't look like the typical mum at the school gates" as she runs out, prompting her mum to mutter a friendly, "Oh my God").

Harvey rings the doorbell before he comes in, walks to the kitchen and announces: "Harvey close the door." "Harvey close the door – good boy," says Danny, who is also Price's manager and whom the children know as Uncle Dan Dan. Price has explained that this is how it will be. "When he comes home, we have to shut the door and he has to ring on the doorbell. If anyone comes to the house, they can't just come through the back door, they have to ring on the doorbell otherwise he goes mad – he controls everything. Some people would say, why let a kid be so controlling? It's not that I'm letting him – it's just him. That's autism." Plans have to be explained patiently in advance to avoid distressing him. "We do have to warn him. If I want to go shopping on Saturday and he doesn't want to go, I can't go, because he'd smash the car up and then he'd go for you." Katie Price with her son Harvey. Photograph: Zed Nelson for the Guardian Harvey makes a wailing noise as he walks through the kitchen to a side room where his toys and computer are laid out for him. "Use your words.

Do you want to use your words?" says Lizzie, his calm and experienced nanny. He turns on a synthesiser, which plays a repetitive drum beat, sits in front of his computer, tips out a packet of iced gem biscuits and counts them before he eats them. The keyboard is specially adapted for visually-impaired children, with big keys. Harvey, whose sight loss is only partial, flicks on to a colouring and drawing program on his computer, and begins a meticulous drawing of a rainbow with a sun, with the colours of the rainbow correctly ordered and every space of the screen sky coloured blue. He spends around 20 minutes, concentrating closely on what he's doing, talking to himself as he works. "Thank you, everyone. What an excellent week," he says, in the voice of an enthusiastic primary schoolteacher. "Thank you, guys. What amazing work today. I think that was great. Well done, everyone." He's silent for a while before starting up again, in a new voice, artlessly catching Kate's lilt. "Heeeey, hello. Oh my God! So sweet! Well, thanks for coming! Wow!" And a few minutes later: "Thank you very much, everybody.

What a good ride and good rollercoaster. I think that's good. Thanks, guys! What a fantastic day!" Price has been gone for an hour and a half, and her friends, hairdressers and makeup assistant are still waiting in the kitchen, trying on makeup and discussing the difficulties and expense of ordering a cake in the shape of a Big Mac for a friend's 50th birthday that night. After a while everyone falls silent; the nanny is getting supper ready at the stove and the five other people sit waiting for something to happen, playing with their mobile phones. The only sound is the occasional "ribbit" noise from Harvey, who is very interested in frogs and spends much of his time drawing them. "It's peaceful without Kate around," Danny says. The friends look up from their phones and smile. "It is, though, isn't it?" After half an hour at the computer, Harvey begins to get hungry, so he drifts into the kitchen. "Lizzie, what's for dinner?" he asks. "We'll have to wait and see," she replies, but he notices a slice of cake in a Tupperware tub and is momentarily reassured, before discovering, to his dismay, that there will also be mashed potatoes.

"It's time to say goodbye to the mashed potatoes," he says, suddenly furious, and before anyone can stop him he's thrown himself to the floor, where he begins to smack his head on the marble, kicks the cupboard doors so violently that they whack again and again against the wall, and wails a high-pitched wail. The nanny, efficient and cool, pushes everyone to the side and shouts, "Someone get the dog out of the way." She addresses Harvey in a low, authoritative voice. "Do you want to go to your room?" She reminds him about the slice of cake that they have looked at together. "Where's that cake?" she says. "I'm putting it in the dustbin." This does the trick. He suddenly stops the tantrum and mutters, "Sorry." "Good boy." If a tantrum continues, whoever is looking after Harvey will try to manoeuvre him on to his stomach. "That way, he won't headbutt the floor because he can see the floor with his eyes. We have to move everything away so he doesn't hurt himself. Kate is brilliant at dealing with it," Kate's mother, Amy, says.

"If you get through two hours without one, you're lucky." The moment of tension in the kitchen is over quickly, no one is particularly disturbed by it and everyone swiftly gets back to looking at their phones, yawning and flipping the soles of their flip-flops against their feet. Price says she likes having a crowded house, and her packed schedule helps her cope. "There's always something going on. That's the way I live my life, on adrenaline." Over the afternoon, she encourages her friends to spend the night, get changed at her house, come back for a barbecue on Saturday, return to hang out on Sunday. "It's good for Harvey to have all that going on around him – I try to make him sociable," she says. She asks her mum to come over at the weekend; Amy says she'll think about it, but has a lot of housework to get through and needs to change her sheets. One reason Price wants to talk about her experiences is to encourage other parents of children with complex needs to seek help and search out parental support groups, because it was only through meeting other parents whose children had sight problems that she really began to understand how she could help her child. "I can't fault the NHS.

Even though when Harvey was younger, I thought they were a bit shit," she says, and thinks about it for a while as the hairdryer roars. "They were shit, actually. We didn't get any support. I remember the health visitor who first looked in his eyes, who said, 'Oh, he's not really following. I think you need to go and see your doctor.' So I went to see my doctor, he did the same thing and said, 'No, that's not right. I'll make you an appointment for the hospital.' We went up there and it was like, 'Yeah, he's blind.' "And my mum and I were like: so what do we do now? And they said, 'Well, there's not really anything you can do.' Do you remember that?" she asks her mum. "And we left there feeling really shit. We were like, can you not help us? Is there any help? Where can we go? We should have been offered support." Price claims she never had any difficulty in coming to terms with her son's condition. "He was diagnosed. It was like, deal with it.

We just looked at each other and went, 'Oh, it's such a shame.' "What can you do? I can't sit in the corner and cry and go, 'Oh, Harvey's blind.' I can't change anything. I didn't dwell on it. Fortunately I'm the kind of person that gets on with things." But her mum reminds her that she used to respond in a peculiar, brittle way if anyone complimented her on her son. "I remember Kate used to take Harvey out in a pram and people used to go, 'Oh, what a lovely little boy.' And she'd say, 'Yes, but he's blind.'" Danny shouts over the hairdryer to add: "Kate says we're very hard – we just deal with it – but there would have been days when I'm sure she would have curled up and sobbed in her bedroom, facing her pillow." And Amy agrees: "Me and Kate, we've both admitted that we did that, but separately, not in front of each other." The three of them are used to performing together, contemplating chunks of Price's life for the cameras.

Everyone here seems so familiar with having an observer around that visitors melt into the furniture and you slip into feeling that you're watching an episode of her show unfold on television. It's a very lulling experience, and it can be hard to squeeze in a question, because the performance plays out automatically, with her mother and brother helpfully prodding Price to remember things that might be interesting. The only thing she admits to being upset by was the suggestion that the disability was somehow her fault. "The newspaper was the worst. They called me a bad mother and said it was my fault that he had disabilities. Anyone who has a child with disabilities knows there could be many reasons. It wasn't my fault. That was awful. "When he was first diagnosed as blind, there was a story saying it was my fault. Probably because I was out partying and stuff. People can go out and party. If they actually look at the pictures, I was driving. But they never printed those pictures, so people blamed me. I knew it wasn't true. But unfortunately people believe what they read." Harvey, son of Katie Price Photograph: Zed Nelson/Zed Nelson for the Guardian She has repeatedly asked doctors about what might have caused Harvey's condition.

"I asked the doctor the other day – is there anything in what people have done during the pregnancy, or anything why they're like this? And they said no, it's just a gene in me or Dwight [Yorke , the former Manchester United footballer and Harvey's father, who disputed paternity until a DNA test showed otherwise]. It's weird, they don't really know. It's nothing I've done." Danny says that much of his sister's breezy resilience is a front she's developed after years of public hostility. "The tabloids in particular have been quite aggressive, so she never shows emotion, never lets it get to her. So when she became a mother, that was kind of inbred. She was so used to having the barriers up to the outside world and that mirrored into her personal life in relation to Harvey's medical issues," he says. When Price gets back from the school run with her children, it's obvious that she's fed up with being interviewed; her effusive friendliness has been turned down to polite coldness and she races through being photographed with Harvey. But she agrees to talk for a bit more while her stylist puts on her makeup for the party she's going to later.

Her daughter Princess sits on the marble counter watching the process, which stretches over 45 minutes, whacking on a thick layer of foundation herself, frequently complimented by the makeup artist. Price doesn't appear to give a toss about the Daily Mail's outbursts of faux outrage about her daughter wearing lots of makeup, and merely remarks that her son also enjoys putting it on, much to the disgust of his friends at school, and laughs at the silliness of it. Across the room, Amy and the nanny sit by Harvey at the kitchen table as he eats his supper, displaying his new dexterity with a knife and fork, something he's learned over the summer while his grandmother has been away; she is tremendously impressed. "It's remarkable how much progress he has made, given how low expectations were for him when he was born," Danny says. "You forget that five years ago he couldn't tell you what was wrong. We didn't think he'd ever be able to say, 'Mum.'" Price clearly relies on the support she gets from her family. Amy gave up her job 10 years ago to help her look after Harvey. "She said, 'Mum, I can't cope.' Well, she needed help.

She didn't have anyone else. I would do one night, she would do the next, and we'd be up two or three times a night. If Kate wanted a babysitter, she couldn't get one because there wasn't anyone who could cope with him. There was no question of thinking about whether to give up work – I had to do it," Amy says. She is particularly involved in the time-consuming business of making sure Harvey gets the correct educational entitlements, and goes with her daughter to tribunals, fighting for the correct support, helped by the Blatchington Court Trust . No one responsible for allocating resources to Harvey cares in the least about Price being a high-profile parent, she says. "They're trying to wiggle out of things. They're not bending over backwards to help. You've got to fight for everything you want. No one will give anything to you unless you fight for it. "We had to fight for a statement [of educational needs]. We had to go to a tribunal because I didn't want to put him in a shit school," Price says. She's aware that the image of her at a tribunal, arguing over the technicalities of her son's diagnosis and the severity of his needs, might surprise people.

"People think I just do my job, but I am a parent, I am a mother, I have got a life as well away from all the bollocks, as I call it… that industry." Earlier this year, they found out that Harvey's school, where he's always been happy, is set to close. "We were devastated," Amy says. "A lot of the parents were crying." They are now working with other parents to see if it will be possible to set up a free school to replace it. It is an immensely time-consuming process and their first application to the department of education was turned down in the summer. It's a fight to which Price says she is committed. "Anyone – able child or not – you want to start them off the best you can in life. Just because you've got disabilities, that's no excuse to think, 'Oh well, I'll just put them to the side' because you think they can't do anything. That's wrong – we've proved the more stimulation you give them, the more you push, that's what causes progress." She breaks off to focus on her right eyelash, which isn't sticking on properly.

She and the stylist look at it, puzzled, and Price wonders whether the foundation could be stopping the glue from working. She remains "disappointed" at Channel 4's refusal to take her side, although she has noticed that since Boyle made similarly ill-received jokes about Paralympians, the channel has distanced itself from the comedian. She still feels that there is generally a willingness to allow jokes about disability to go unchallenged in a way that would be unacceptable if the target were race or gender. Boyle "would have been bollocked" if the joke had been racist, she argues. Throughout her description of her life with Harvey, Price is at pains to portray herself as just a regular mum who faces the same challenges as any other parent of a child with complex needs. On one level she's right because, as she says, "I don't think if you've got money it makes it easier. All the money in the world isn't going to buy him a pair of eyes.

All the money in the world isn't going to change his autism." But on another level, this is frankly delusional, because having money obviously cushions her against the strains of having a challenging child in the family – it pays for the extra space; for the huge garden where Price's boyfriend, Leondro Penna, can take Harvey riding on a quad bike; it pays for specialist computer equipment, specialist childcare, holidays abroad, a cinema room, extra help so that she can pay attention to her other children; and it makes the frequent need to stock up on new flatscreen televisions something Price can laugh about. She won't accept that wealth makes a difference. "Not at all. You get respite care anyway. There's lots of support," she says, revealing a very hazy grasp of the way local authority cuts are slashing services. "As for the TV, well, I'm sure everyone's got home insurance and you can get it on that. At the end of the day, money doesn't buy health, does it?" But it does help in securing Harvey's future, and she's built what she describes as a cabin on a patch of land near the stables where she hopes he will live when he's older.

She is wary of residential homes, has seen plenty of grim documentaries about them, and remarks, "There are a lot of evil people out there." Besides, she doesn't want him to go anywhere. She says several times, "He'll always live at home. He's not leaving me." She doesn't see her other children as taking any of that responsibility from her in time. "It's not their role to be carers. They've got to enjoy their lives. I'm the mother. I deal with it. I'm the lioness and they're my cubs." Katie Price’s son Harvey’s cutest moments: From branding Twitter trolls 'c***s' to singing along to Taylor Swift - Irish Mirror Online Showbiz Katie Price’s son Harvey’s cutest moments: From branding Twitter trolls 'c***s' to singing along to Taylor Swift Katie Price's eldest son has come along leaps and bounds in recent years, and he hit headlines again today Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Katie Price 's son Harvey shocked Loose Women viewers today when he branded cruel Twitter trolls "c***s" live on air.

But it's not the first time he's been praised for his confidence on screen. As a young boy, he was a regular on Katie and her then husband Peter Andre ’s reality TV show. Now at 13-years-old, Harvey - whose father is footballer Dwight Yorke – only makes rare public appearances, but when he does it's clear just how far he has come. Katie’s eldest child, who lives with a condition known as septo-optic dysplasia and suffers from Prader–Willi syndrome, has an infectious personality which shines through on the odd occasion he appears on TV these days or when mum Katie shares a clip. The star brought Harvey on Loose Women today to show how vulnerable he is, hoping it would make people think twice before picking on him. During the appearance, she asked him what he wanted to say to bullies targeting him online, to which he replied: "Hello, you c**t." Here’s our top four Harvey moments… When he called Katie ‘babe’ on This Morning Video Loading

Question: A son, his dad is Dwight Yorke; what is the first name of Katy Price's eldest child?
Answer: HARVEY