Katie Price recovers from sixth facelift poolside in a string bikini

British TV personality Katie Price is recovering from her sixth facelift by stripping down to her bikini and lounging by the pool - surgical tape and all.

How does one shift into recovery mode after undergoing a $20,000 facelift? If you’re Katie Price, you strip down to your string bikini and lounge by the pool.

Looking fresh out of surgery, the British TV personality and model took up prime position poolside at a five-star Sheraton Ataköy hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, where she has been in the past week while recovering.

British model Katie Price recovers from sixth facelift on holiday in Turkey. Picture: BACKGRID

The 46-year-old still was still rocking surgical tape and wounds on her face from the gruelling surgery, which marked her sixth facelift.

“My natural hair growing, My eyelashes. Natural face healing well,” she captioned a selfie on Instagram Stories days ago, detailing her recovery with her followers.

The star was still rocking surgical tape and wounds on her face from the gruelling surgery. Picture: BACKGRID

With Price looking more like a patient than a holiday-maker, apparently fellow hotel guests felt unable to relax in her presence. It didn’t help that her blue bikini did little to cover up her breasts, which last year were tweaked for the 17th time.

According to a review on TripAdvisor, one guest slammed Price for using the pool with open wounds.

“Who wants to relax and dine at a hotel looking at someone with blood all over their face, staples holding their scalp on and incisions weeping with pus,” the guest wrote, as per Daily Mail.

Holidaymakers were not impressed with Price entering the pool with open wounds. Picture: BACKGRID

According to a review on TripAdvisor, one guest slammed Price for using the pool with open wounds.

“Who wants to relax and dine at a hotel looking at someone with blood all over their face, staples holding their scalp on and incisions weeping with pus,” the guest wrote, as per Daily Mail.

“Oh and she used the swimming pool as well... I’m not sure this hotel should be used as a recovery facility for plastic surgery.’

Katie circa 2011... Picture: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

...and again in 2018.

Good thing Price squeezed in a little R&R after her surgery because there was little peace and refuge waiting for her when she returned home to the UK.

The star was arrested upon her arrival at Heathrow Airport for failing to attend a court hearing relating to her bankruptcies.

Price was declared bankrupt in 2019 and again in March this year. The second bankruptcy was over an unpaid tax bill of more than £750,000 ($1.4 million).

She was bailed hours after being detained.