KATIE Price is considering hiring a prostitute 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.

7 Katie Price has revealed she is considering hiring a prostitute for son Harvey Credit: ITV

Katie, 39, made the admission on Loose Women today, revealing she has discussed the issue with her husband Kieran Hayler.

Harvey, 15, suffers from a number of medical conditions, including autism, and Katie 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.

Katie 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?"

7 Katie wants Harvey to experience sex Credit: Instagram

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

He also suffers from Prader–Willi syndrome and finds walking difficult.

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

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The writer has previously admitted she thought about hiring a prostitute for her son before he found a girlfriend himself, and Katie 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?'"

Kathy'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.

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

7 Viewers were left with an error message on the screen Credit: ITV

Kathy 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."

The issue was featured in 2012 film The Sessions which starred Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate hired to help a disabled man lose his virginity.

7 Katie discussed the issue with her husband Kieran Hayler Credit: Instagram

7 Kathy Lette was on the show with her son Jules Credit: ITV

Katie's news comes after she hit back at critics who call her a bad mum.

The mum-of-five is frequently criticised on social media for her mothering skills and she was slammed this week for showing her two-year-old daughter her glamour modelling shots during reality show My Crazy Life.

Defiant Katie told Now! magazine: “Listen, there are a lot of parents with four-year-olds who still have dummies – I don’t complain.

“My kids are dirty, they’re feral, they’re very happy and they enjoy life.

7 Harvey has autism as well as a number of other conditions, including problems with his eyes Credit: Instagram “I don’t give a s*** what anybody says about my mothering skills.

“If anyone wants to complain about how I raise my kids they need to get a life.”

In the opening episode of her new reality show Katie put on a sexual display with her husband Kieran Hayler in front of her young children, and also let him “honk” her boobs.

7 Katie is mum to five kids - Harvey, Princess, Junior, Bunny and Jett Credit: Instagram

Katie also forgot the ages of her kids, called them all “d***heads” and let Bunny stuff mud into her mouth.

Viewers were most shocked by a scene where Katie and Kieran cleared out belongings from Katie’s “old life” with the help of her children.

After taking out items such as baby mobiles and books, Kieran declared: “Babes, what’s this doing in there?”

He held up a graphic nude portrait of Katie from her glamour modelling days as her children looked on gob-smacked.

Princess, nine, shouted “What is that?” as she ran over to hide the poster from her baby sister Bunny.

Harvey was born in 2002 after Katie's relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke – who denied paternity until the glamour girl proved it with a DNA test.

Son Junior and daughter Princess were born in June 2005 and June 2007, during her marriage to Peter Andre.

Since marrying Kieran, she has had a third boy, Jett, born in August 2013, and Bunny, born in August 2014.

The Sessions explained What was the movie about and what are sex surrogates? The 2012 film starred Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate who is hired to help a disabled man lose his virginity.

She plays Cheryl Cohen-Greene who helps poet Mark O'Brien, played by John Hawkes, fulfil his sexual needs after he is paralysed from the neck down due to complications from polio.

The movie is based on a true story after Mark described his experiences with sex surrogate Cheryl in a magazine article.

It received critical acclaim and Helen landed an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Sex surrogates are used as a part of therapy for some people with disabilities or sexual dysfunction, but it is a controversial practice and is illegal in some regions.

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