Katie Price wants to hire a sex worker for disabled son

KATIE Price has revealed during a live TV chat that she’s considering hiring a sex worker for her disabled son Harvey when he turns 18.

KATIE Price is considering hiring a sex worker for her disabled son Harvey when he turns 18.

The former glamour girl revealed she wants the teenager to be able to experience sex, but the candid chat was interrupted by technical difficulties.

Price, 39, made the admission on UK talk show Loose Women, revealing she has discussed the issue with her husband Kieran Hayler, The Sun reports.

Harvey, 15, suffers from a number of medical conditions, including autism, and Price fears he may never be able to form a real relationship with a woman.

She admits he has normal sexual urges so the star and her partner Kieran have talked about whether they should hire a professional to allow Harvey to have sex.

Price insisted it would not happen until the teenager turns 18.

She said: “Kieran said: ‘Shall we get him a prostitute when he turns 18?’ I said, ‘But that’s my little Harvey and I don’t want to do that!’

“What do I do? Do I leave it? Or do I let him experience it?”

Harvey was born in 2002 after Price’s relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke — who denied paternity until she proved it with a DNA test.

He’s registered blind and suffers from a condition known as septo-optic dysplasia, which affects the development of his optic nerve.

Harvey also suffers from Prader — Willi syndrome and finds walking difficult.

Price wants to help her son “experience” sex. Picture: Rex Features/Splash News

Price told the Loose Women panel about the conversations she’s been having with her husband about Harvey after author Kathy Lette made an appearance on the show to discuss her autistic son Jules.

Lette has previously admitted she thought about hiring a prostitute for her son before he found a girlfriend himself, and Price said that Jules is on the “higher end of the spectrum” while Harvey is not so high functioning.

She said: “My son Harvey has autism, and he’s just hit puberty, and it’s obviously natural to experiment with yourself during puberty.

“He [Jules] has high function autism, so he’s [Harvey is] at the opposite end … and I’m like, ‘Is it fair to let him go without?’”

Lette’s son Jules then started talking about his own experiences, but he only managed to get a few words out before the show’s sound disappeared and it went off-air.

Loose Women cut to 'technical difficulties' during the frank sex discussion.

Viewers were informed there were “technical difficulties” and it returned to screens after a few minutes.

Lette later returned to the panel to talk about her son, and she said: “I did consider hiring a prostitute for him, but luckily he found a girlfriend.

“Kerb crawling is illegal. So how do you address this? These kids are often cast off into Siberia — they are so lonely …

“I thought it might lift up his self-esteem.”

This story was originally published in The Sun and is republished here with permission.