Katie Price says she's seeking medical help as she reacts to 'gaunt' photos and admits 'I just want to put on weight'

Katie Price has said she is seeking medical advice after being left 'horrified' by photos of her 'gaunt' appearance.

Last week fans begged the former glamour model, 47, to get help after she was pictured looking 'worryingly thin' while reuniting with daughter Princess Andre, 18, for a shopping trip.

Speaking on the latest episode of her podcast The Katie Price Show Katie told her sister Sophie that she is now having tests to get answers to her recent weight loss.   

Reacting to the photos, Katie said: 'I know I look gaunt, I look like I'm ill – hence why I'm going to the doctors tomorrow.'

'I don't know how many times I have to say to people, 'Yes I know I've lost weight,' and there's obviously a reason I said it to the doctor.'

Sophie then asked: ' What is the actual truth behind it?' Katie replied: 'We all know that we're trying to sort it all out and as soon as I know then I'll let everyone know.'

'But because I look so bad it's had an influence and I've had filler put in my face which I didn't want to do.'

Katie added: 'I just wanna put on weight, I really do but I'm just not. Everyone knows I eat – I eat everything that I want, I've never had a problem with what I eat.'

Earlier in the podcast Katie had revealed she had booked a doctors appointment and blood tests.

After her sister asked her how she has been taking care of herself, Katie replied: 'I've been eating well and I've been drinking lots of water because I've got a blood test tomorrow, so I'll get the results back.'

'I went to the doctors and explained everything, it's a new doctors so I've got a full blood test tomorrow morning.'

She also said she has been enjoying a quiet January and has barely drunk alcohol in recent weeks aside from a glass of champagne at Christmas. 'I haven't been out in so long, I can't be bothered. I just love being at home,' she explained. 

She recently called herself a 'stick woman' and said doctors were concerned about her low blood pressure in another health update on her podcast.

Katie added she was feeling the pressure from her mother Amy to go to the doctors as she told her sister : 'All I've had, since everywhere has been closed, is, "Have you phoned the doctors yet? Have you phoned?"

'I'm like, "Yes, mum. I went to the doctors today." I screenshotted the appointment.'

Sophie asked: 'Did you actually though? Because mum has been speaking to me about this.'

Katie replied: 'Yes. I'm going in there to talk about blood tests, MRI, everything she wants me to have to get to the bottom of why the price is – forget stick man – stick woman.'

The mother-of-five added she had to have her blood pressure done three times because doctors thought it was so low that there must have been an error.

In October, Katie confessed she had been hospitalised for her weight loss - which she initially conceded was her aim - however later insisted was baffling doctors and left needing tests to assess the situation.

Katie told fans on her Snapchat Story she 'doesn't know why' her frame is shrinking so much as she undergoes tests.

She began: 'I've been up early at the doctors so she could do some bloods and because my veins are so s*** they had three attempts.

'They could only fill two tubes up, so I've got to go back in two weeks. And I've got to have my stitches out then because they looked at my little stab wound that I did...'

Katie added: 'The reason I'm going to the doctors is because I keep losing weight and I don't know why. So that's that.'