Katie Price shared a loving tribute to her eldest son Harvey to mark his 23rd birthday on Tuesday.

The former glamour model, 47, took to Instagram on his birthday eve to post a series of throwback snaps with Harvey as she celebrated his special day with him.

She shared a smiling selfie of her and Harvey together on the beach and another picture of her son planting a kiss on her cheek.

In a caption, she gushed over her ‘forever love’ for her son and shared her excitement over spending Harvey’s birthday with him.

Katie welcomed Harvey on May 27, 2002, with her ex Dwight Yorke while she also has another four children with two ex-partners. 

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Katie Price shared a loving tribute to her eldest son Harvey (both pictured in April 2018) to mark his 23rd birthday on Tuesday

The former glamour model, 47, took to Instagram on his birthday eve to post a series of throwback snaps with Harvey as she celebrated his special day with him

Katie shares her kids Junior, 19, and Princess 17, with her first husband Peter Andre, and Jett, 11, and Bunny, 10, with ex-husband Kieran Hayler.

Harvey is blind, autistic, has septo-optic dysplasia, a learning disability and is one of the 2,000 people in the UK with Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder.

Katie has undergone a difficult time trying to secure Harvey a college place after she was forced to withdraw him from a £350,000-a-year school amid funding cuts and her bankruptcy.

Though he later returned to school, Katie was hit by another hurdle in February when Harvey lost a place at a care home for being ‘too difficult’, but she was finally able to move him back to college last month.

But Katie shared her heartbreak as she told how Harvey didn’t want to go back and said she hopes to be able to move him to a branch closer to her new family home in SusSєx after leaving her Mucky Mansion.

Upon the move last month, Katie took to Snapchat to document the ‘difficult and upsetting’ journey which saw an upset Harvey lash out in the car.

She told her followers: ‘Now that was very difficult, it was really upsetting. Harvey just did not want to go back to college.

‘I’m surprised I’ve still got a car left. He was literally gonna go for the car. It is so sad when your son just doesn’t wanna go to college and just wants to be with you all the time.

She gushed over her ‘forever love’ for her son and shared her excitement over spending Harvey’s birthday with him

‘That’s why I can’t wait for him to come home near us but the place we have got for him is not ready yet, maybe in May. So yeah, it is heartbreaking.’

Harvey has been living at specialist insтιтution National Star since 2021, but amid cuts to funding and Katie’s financial woes, he was withdrawn from last year.

Speaking on her The Katie Price Show podcast last year, Katie said: ‘I’m having a nightmare at the minute. 

‘We were looking for him to stay at his college another year or if not a placement, but [the local authority] haven’t accepted it.

‘They’ve given me three months that he has to find somewhere else by July. With someone like Harvey you need the transitional move, you need to do it slow.’

She had been looking to extend Harvey’s time at college for another year when West SusSєx County Council cut his funding in July of last year.

The local authority refused to fund her son’s care because he has ‘no healthcare issues’, with an ᴀssessor concluding that Harvey ‘only needs social care’.

Katie – who was declared bankrupt for a second time last year over an unpaid tax bill worth more than £750,000 – has been trying to secure funding to keep Harvey at National Star.

Harvey is blind, autistic, has septo-optic dysplasia, a learning disability and is one of the 2,000 people in the UK with Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder

Thankfully, Harvey was able to return to school and in December, Katie shared a snap of her son proudly holding up his letter to Santa which revealed his college triumphs.

In February, Katie then told how she tried to get Harvey into a new care home but he lost his place weeks before the move after management changed and they determined that they couldn’t cater for Harvey’s needs.

Amid the string of difficulties, Katie was able to move Harvey back into college last month but is hoping he can move into a branch closer to her family home in West SusSєx in the coming weeks.

Katie was Harvey’s primary caregiver until he turned 19, and in 2021 filmed his move into National Star College as part of BBC documentary Katie Price: Harvey and Me.

WHAT IS PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME?

Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic condition that causes problems including constant urges to eat food, restricted growth and reduced muscle tone.

Other potential issues include learning difficulties, lack of Sєxual development and behavioral problems such as tantrums or stubbornness.

The rare condition, which affects one in every 15,000 children born in England, is caused by a defect on chromosome number 15 – and happens by chance.

Because there is no cure, treatment aims to manage the symptoms – with parents of sufferers urged to get their children to stick to a healthy, balanced diet.

Children with the syndrome can eat up to six times more than children of the same age – and still feel hungry.

It was first described in 1956 by Swiss doctors A Prader, A Labhart and H Willi.