Katie Price comes under fire as she is accused of ‘editing’ and ‘airbrushing’ a snap of her son

Katie Price has come under fire for seemingly applying a filter to a picture of her son Harvey as she marked his 20th birthday.

The former glamour model, 44, shared a snap of Harvey standing outside in a blue T-shirt to her Instagram grid on Saturday to celebrate her son’s birthday.

But fans were quick to accuse her of ‘heavily filtering’ and ‘airbrushing’ the photograph of Harvey, who has Prader-Willi Syndrome, diabetes and autism.

Posting one day after Harvey’s birthday, Katie wrote: ‘My handsome son still can’t believe his 20.’

But in the comments section, fans hit back at Katie’s post, with one person fuming: ‘Editing your own son? Wow.’

Another commented: ‘Aw, don’t filter Harvey.’

While a third said: ‘HARV doesn’t need no filter he’s GORGEOUS HARV’

And a fourth wrote: ‘Blimey she’s even heavily filtering his pics now. why can’t people show their natural looks on line. Such a sad world.’

A fifth queried: ‘Did you really have to airbrush Harvey?????’

Another added: ‘She has put a filter on him. He don’t need it he is 20 not 90. He is handsome don’t need a filter shame on you Katie.’

Others took to the comments to send their well wishes to Harvey on his 20th birthday, while many noted how much he resembled his brother Junior, 16, whose father is Peter Andre.

It comes just days after she showed off Harvey’s huge present haul on Tuesday ahead of his birthday.

The TV personality took to her Instagram Stories to film piles of boxes as they were delivered to her home before the celebrations.

She wrote in the caption: ‘@officialmrharveyprice is a lucky man @uptheirclothing has sent the new summer collection for Harvey’s birthday on Friday.

‘Can you believe he will be 20. This is the only company I know that actually do large sizes.’

Last month, Katie came under criticism from fans for ‘exploiting’ her disabled son after the reality TV star took him to The Acapulco Club in Halifax for a meet-and-greet.

She admitted it was Harvey’s first time in a nightclub as they charged £10 for meet-and-greet tickets at the event, which reportedly saw Katie rake in £6,000.

But people took to Twitter to express their concern for Harvey’s wellbeing in the loud environment and some accused Katie of ‘exploiting’ her son through the paid appearance.

One person wrote: ‘Anyone else think that Katie Price taking Harvey to a night club to make an appearance is a bit absurd?

Another commented: ‘Harvey’s only going to be there because she wouldn’t be booked on her own. She’s exploiting him again.’

And a third said: ‘Why the f**k has Katie Price taken Harvey to a meet and greet at a nightclub?’

A source also criticised Katie for being ‘irresponsible’ for taking Harvey, who has complex medical and behavioural conditions, to a nightclub.

The source told OK! Magazine: ‘She’ll [Katie] have to be on the edge of her seat the whole night, as you just don’t know how he’s going to react with loud noises, doors banging, a lot of people, talking and lots of flashes and cameras.’

Katie, who has made numerous appearances at Acapulco, reportedly raked in earnings of £6,000 for the event, which will be put into a bank account for Harvey.

A source told The Sun: ‘Katie normally charges more but she’s agreed to appear for £6k as she’s keen for Harvey to make his own money.

‘It’ll all go into his bank account for when he’s older.

‘It’s £10 for a meet and greet so the club can pay her fee easily – people will be queuing up to meet them!’

MailOnline approached Katie’s representatives for comment at the time.

Elsewhere, Katie was warned on Wednesday she faces jail after she pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order by calling ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancée a ‘gutter s**g’.

The mother-of-five was arrested on January 21 on suspicion of breaking her restraining order against Michelle Penticost with a foul-mouthed text to her ex.

The message read: ‘Tell your c****ng w**** piece of s*** girlfriend not to start on me.

‘She has a restraining order so shouldn’t try antagonise me as she is in breach and I’m sure she doesn’t want people knowing that she was having an affair with you behind my back. That gutter s***.’

Katie, who was joined by current partner Carl Woods at Lewes Crown Court, was later charged with breaching a restraining order but pleaded not guilty on April 27 and requested a crown court trial.

However, she pleaded guilty and was told by Judge Stephen Mooney that she was ‘at risk of receiving an immediate custodial sentence’.

It was previously suggested she could face five years in jail if she had been found to have breached the order. 

Katie’s lawyer Nicholas Hamblin said the star should avoid jail again because only the words ‘tell your’ were a breach of the restraining order.

He said: ‘Were it not for those two words in the message this would not be a breach.’

Katie, who was released on bail, will be sentenced for breaching the restraining on on June 24.

She was handed the five-year restraining order on June 3, 2019 banning her from contacting Penticost directly or indirectly.

The order came after Katie hurled a foul-mouthed ‘tirade of abuse’ at her during a row in a school playground.

Her lawyer added: ‘It is very telling in this case that there is a great deal of background information which will need to be placed before the court.

‘Much of it is in a therapist’s report and the court would need to be updated about her current situation and indeed the matters which have taken up so much of her time and other people’s time over quite a number of years.

‘You will notice she has been subject to conditions of a suspended sentence.

‘Part of my function will be to seek to persuade the court that in this case, because of the mitigation available it will be unjust to activate that suspended sentence.’

After allegedly sending foul-mouthed texts to ex Kieran, Katie was arrested at her home by officers at around 5.45pm on January 21 and taken to Worthing police station.

After a 12-hour interrogation she was released, though not before officers confiscated her phone, which they examined for evidence.

Flanked a female security guard, she stood in the dock of Court 1 and smiled as her fiancee sat behind her in court.

Asked how she pleaded to a single charge of breaching the order the former glamour model replied: ‘Guilty.’

Nicholas Hamblin, defending, told the court the case against her rested on two words ‘Tell your…’ which constituted an indirect message to Miss Penticost.

He said he would be placing a great deal of personal information about Price in front of the court as part of his mitigation.

Judge Stephen Mooney told Price: ‘Clearly you have accepted for an offence and pleaded guilty and you are aware you committed the offence while on a suspended sentence and are at risk of going to prison.’

He said she would be released on bail until sentencing next month while reports were drawn up. But he warned her she would then be ‘at risk of receiving an immediate custodial sentence’.