KARACHI: Katie Price can trace the roots of her business acumen back to the age of 12, where she sold recordings of her songs for just a £1. Price, who has now amassed a fortune of £45 million, said she has always been a businesswoman.

"I was very shrewd from a young age. I remember going to a pet shop with my mum aged about nine and there was a black rabbit that I desperately wanted but she said ‘No’,” she said.

"I thought to myself, I’m going to have that rabbit, and when we got home I found Mum’s cheque book and wrote out and signed one in her name for the price of the rabbit.”

"I posted it off to the pet shop and they phoned back a few days later and asked to check some details with my mum. I was grounded for a week," she says.

The former glamour Model said her upbringing made her appreciate that one has to work hard for success.

"My mum’s friend gave me the Kylie song Tears on My Pillow for my 12th birthday and I also got a tape recorder so I used it to record that song and others off the radio and sell them for £1.”

"My family had to work to survive and we were all very enterprising. I remember when it was windy my dad would send my brother and me out putting leaflets through doors, asking people if they wanted their fences mending."

"Sometimes I look round my home and think, how on earth did I get here? I’m proud of my business empire but most of all I’m proud of the fact that no one would ever have believed I could do it," Price concluded.