Inside Katie Price's unique relationship with Harvey – from triumph over disability to fighting trolls

Katie Price has had a lot of problems recently – but her love for her teenage son, Harvey, has never been in doubt.

The former glamorous supermodel has raised Harvey alone since he was a baby, after Father Dwight Yorke abandoned him when he was little.

The footballer initially denied being the father of Harvey, aged 16, when Katie became pregnant during their romantic relationship and forced the model to have Harvey perform a DNA test at her first birth.

Dwight also dismissed Harvey's various diagnoses, including diabetes, an underactive thyroid, septo-optic dysplasia, which causes blindness, and Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic condition, which makes Harvey always hungry and gain weight.

But in Katie 2016's autobiography, Reborn, she revealed that Dwight had refused to accept that her son had health problems.

"The last time Harvey's biological father, Dwight Yorke, saw him about eight years ago, he first wondered why Harvey was so big, why was I overeating him?" she wrote.

"I had several times explained the state of Harvey to Dwight, but he refused to understand it and kept saying that he was fat.

"It is sad that he is unable to accept Harvey for who he is and seems unable or unwilling to work within the bounds of his limitations."

Making Dandy a "coward", she claimed that the footballer wanted to "blame someone" for Harvey's disabilities and blamed him for missing out on so many special moments.

"For me, it's impossible to understand why the father of a little boy would not make contact after receiving snapshots of his son opening his birthday gifts, learning the swing ball or laughing on his head." A quad. These are such precious moments. "

She added that Harvey is "a beautiful, funny, intelligent, playful and incredibly brave little boy who plays a central and positive role in our family".

Harvey hit the headlines in 2015 when Katie revealed inside Celebrity Big Brother home how much it cost to transport her to her school.

She explained that her local council had paid the bill for driving Harvey from his home in West Susbad to his school in South London and vice versa, stressing that it would cost him more than £ 1,000 per day if she were to finance it. herself. .

Public reactions have been enormous, even pushing Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to intervene and insist that parents of children with disabilities have compbadion, regardless of their personal wealth.

But it was not only Harvey's education that worried Katie; it was also his growth in development as he approached adolescence.

At the age of 14, Harvey was already weighing 18 stones and – because of his Prader-Willi syndrome – would do anything to get his hands on food.

"He never knows when he'll be full, he'll do everything in his power to feed himself, at the table it looks like he's never eaten," Katie told Loose Women's group. in December 2016.

And, as Harvey grew up, Katie struggled to cope with her fury.

At the speech that took place today on the Victoria Derbyshire Show, Katie revealed that her other children – Junior and Princess with Peter Andre, and Jett and Bunny with Kieran Hayler – were afraid that Harvey would go wild. .

She explained how Harvey had broken windows, televisions and eight iPads over the last year, leading him to consider placing him in a part-time care facility.

"It's a danger to himself and for the first time in his life, I think he might have to go into a residential residence from Monday to Friday," she said. told the presenter of the BBC.

"Because he knows that it starts, the driver will not take him to school, he talked about it and he misses his education.He just wants to be with me all the time. time."

"When he breaks things, the kids are scared because he's tall, it's so hard, I've never had a break, I have not had a guardian, I do it all myself but I really have to think about it.

"I hate it because it's my life."

Katie also had to fight cruel trolls that target Harvey with disgusting abuse of his disability and the color of his skin.

She created an Instagram account for him last month, but immediately had to block and remove the abuse of enemies.

Katie was criticized for allowing Harvey to use Instagram, but she reacted with a campaign called Harvey's Law to create a national troll registry to name and dishonor the worst offenders.