Katie Price ‘couldn’t be happier’ to be reunited with her youngest children Bunny and Jett after a ‘tricky’ time.
It is reported Bunny, 10, and Jett, 11, have been living elsewhere since Katie and their father’s falling out, but now they are returning to the 47-year-old former glamour model ‘full time’ in November.
Kieran Hayler and Katie tied the knot in 2013 after just two months of meeting and while their divorce wasn’t finalised until 2021, the couple split in 2018 after a series of cheating allegations.
The former stripper Kieran, 38, admitted to having an affair with Katie’s friend of 20 years Jane Pountney, and also for seeing her other friend, Chrissy Thomas. Then Katie discovered Kieran had also cheated on her with their nanny Nikki Brown (she denied the affair).
While each party got 50/50 custody in their divorce, it seems the two kids have been living with their dad.
Now The Mail reports Katie is getting them back for a full-time move in November, which was said to be one of the reasons she moved house, so the kids can be closer to their dad and friends.
‘Bunny and Jett haven’t been living with Katie for several years now, she has been very open about that,’ a source told the publication.
‘They went to Kieran after he and Katie fell out. It was all a bit of a tricky time for the whole family, but now Katie is going to have them back with her again and she couldn’t be happier.
‘Her recent move is just perfect timing for when they go back to her in November. Katie moved quite a way from Kieran when she left her Mucky Mansion, but now she’s back nearer to where Bunny and Jett live so it has all worked out really well for her.’
At the moment Katie doesn’t live with any of her children, with Harvey, 23, in a care home to help with his disabilities, as well as Junior and Princess spreading their wings into adulthood.
It comes after Katie’s ex Peter Andre’s blistering statement claiming that for ‘well documented reasons and for their safety’ their children Junior, 20, and Princess, 18, ‘came into [his] care’ in 2018, and remained there until adulthood.
In a 2022 Channel 4 documentary, Katie Price: Trauma and Me the star told viewers about the situation with Bunny and Jett while opening up about her mental health struggles, which led to an attempt on her own life and a stay at the Priory.
‘The hardest thing I’ve had to deal with in recent months is having limited access to some of my kids,’ she said in the documentary.
‘Recent events have meant I’m seeing my youngest children less and the relationship between me and their father has broken down.’
She added: ‘It’s not good for my mental health and it’s certainly not good for their mental health.
‘They should be having their mum in their life. At the moment I’m stuck in this rut with Jett and Bunny and it is frustrating for me.
‘You know, seven months, how has it even got to this? It’s heartbreaking and I just wish it wasn’t like this. All I can do is hope that this won’t be forever.’
After Katie and Kieran’s split the drama rumbled on, as reports said that he had accused her of ‘harassment’, while Katie was also taken to court after sending Kieran text messages about his new fiancée that broke a restraining order.
In December Katie opened up about why we don’t see Bunny and Jett much – because of how fame, and social media, has changed over the years.
‘They’re very good with the media,’ she said, referencing her eldest children. ‘But I don’t even do pictures with [Jett and Bunny],’ she told the How To Be Famous Podcast.
‘When Junior and Princess were growing up it was all newspaper and magazines and there wasn’t social media,’ she said.
‘So they’ve grown up with it that way, whereas Jett and Bunny are in the social media world and it can be a nasty world with all the trolling, so it’s different.’
She explained that she didn’t want her youngest children to face challenges by being in secondary school and already having a huge social following.
‘I don’t even put pictures of them up anymore because they’re going to big school and I want them to have their identity. It’s just all different.
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