Katie Price reveals having kittens is practice for children with boyfriend JJ Slater

Katie Pricehas admitted having kittens is how she is getting ready to have a baby with her boyfriend JJ Slater. The former glamour model, 47, has long expressed her desire to have more children.

She is already mum to Harvey, 23, Junior, 20, Princess, 18, Jett, 11 and Bunny, 11. Katie revealed she has explored both IVF and egg donation as she wishes to welcome a sixth child.

The mum-of-five shared she bought donor eggs last year before meeting current boyfriend JJ Slater, 32. Katie has remained optimistic about the future despite her unsuccessful IVF treatment, which she said failed because "my eggs are too old". It comes after Katie Price worried fans with her appearance in a family photo after explaining her weight loss.

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Now, it seems Katie and JJ have been getting some practicing in as they push ahead with their baby plans. Katie's cat Doris gave birth last week while she was watching a film with JJ.

"It just come out of nowhere, the kids were so good with helping," she said on the Katie Price Show podcast. "The cat had five kittens and luckily, we were prepared."

However, because they had arrived early the kittens were too small to feed on the bottles Katie had at home. She added: "JJ had to go to the vet at two in the morning, they were so young they couldn't fix onto the mum.

"So every two hours through the day and the night, me and JJ have been feeding the kittens." Katie went as far as admitting the task was "worse" than having a newborn baby.

The couple were meant to be on holiday on the Isle of Wight when the kittens arrived, and so decided to take Doris and the babies with them. While there, Katie and JJ stopped off at a vets, who told them they were premature.

"They said we are doing a fantastic job, they are above their weight and they're looking good," Katie said of the vet visit. "They said 'whatever you are doing, you are doing really well'. So pat on the back to us."

Revealing how fatherhood was affecting her partner, Katie quipped: "JJ said he has never felt so worn out. This is him rehearsing for when it is the real thing."

Speaking to Paul C Brunson on his We Need To Talk podcast earlier this year, Katie opened up on her baby plans. "I had IVF and it failed because basically my eggs are too old," she shared.

"I gave it a go even though the doctors said you've got a 1 percent chance of that working, but I just said I might be that 1%. I'm doing it! I went through all of it and it didn't work.

"So I have got donor eggs, I got them last year. You don't see the picture but they go on how I look, like the dark hair, the green eyes, Spanish... because I've got like Italian/Spanish in me."

Katie also shared how she put the plans in place before meeting JJ and had already picked a sperm donor. "Because I'm not afraid to have a baby on my own, before I met JJ I was quite happy. I found a sperm donor from America, from black origin," she said.

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