Katie Price says she is now registered disabled and has applied for a blue badge after fall
The former glamour model said she can only walk for 20 minutes at a time
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Your support makes all the difference.Katie Price has said she is now registered disabled, following a fall last year.
The 42-year-old, who broke her feet while holidaying in Turkey, said she has applied for a blue badge, after being certified by her doctor.
The star reportedly fell from a 25ft wall last July, and required eight hours of surgery afterwards.
She told The Sun newspaper: "I'm registered disabled and have got letters from the doctors to certify me for a blue badge, which I've sent off for.
"I have to park near the entrances to shops all the time, otherwise it would cripple me to walk from the back of a car park to a shop and back again.
"I can't carry anything from the shops either or even walk up the stairs with anything. The heavier the items, the more it hurts my feet."
Price said she can only walk for 20 minutes at a time due to the pain, which she likened to "shocks of lightning shooting up my feet all day".
The former glamour model previously told The Sun that doctors said she was lucky not to be paralysed.
Revisiting the site of her fall, where a railing has now been built to avoid the same thing happening again, Price said she "should be dead" and that, if she had hit her head, she "wouldn't be here today".
Earlier this month, the mum-of-five opened up about her fears that her son, Harvey, could face being sectioned in the future.
Harvey, who was born in 2002, has partial blindness, autism and Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic condition that can cause physical issues and behavioural difficulties.
Speaking in the BBC One documentary, Katie Price: Harvey and Me, Price discussed her ongoing search for a residential college for Harvey to attend when he turns 18.
Speaking to a close friend in the documentary, Price learnt how, if the college chosen for Harvey turned out to be unsuitable, the local authority could forcibly take her son away if they felt he was a risk to himself and others, and he could end up in a mental health unit or an assessment and treatment unit.
"Hearing some stories about how some people have been sectioned is awful," Price said. "I can see they’ve got similarities to what Harv’s like. And they were scared."
"Imagine Harvey being sectioned," she continued. "Put in a room. He wouldn’t cope. That would finish anyone off, surely."
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