Katie Price has been criticised by fans for using a sun bed amid new cancer fears after she shared a selfie while tanning on Thursday. 

The 47-year-old former glamour model was hospitalized this past weekend due to alarming weight loss and has recently opened up about her fears of leiomyosarcoma cancer reoccurring, after discovering another lump on her finger.

In 2002, when she was 24, she revealed that she had been diagnosed with the rare form of cancer while pregnant with her son Harvey. 

Leiomyosarcoma is a rare cancer that affects the smooth muscle cells located throughout the body. In its progressed state, the prognosis offers just a 50% chance of survival.

However, Katie appeared to brush off her recent concern when she topped up her tan and tried red light therapy. 

She said: ‘So before I try the sun bed, not try – have the sunbed. I’m going to try this red light therapy bed, which is right here.’

Katie Price has been criticised by fans for using a sun bed amid new cancer fears after she shared a selfie while tanning on Thursday

Katie added: ‘Never had one before, apparently it’s good for your bones and skin. Let me check it out.’ 

Fans shared their concerns in the comments section, writing: ‘Talks about Cancer scares, then posts on a sun bed???’; 

‘Too much sun can give you cancer, I’m going to give you a fatherly advice STOP pushing yourself too far’; 

‘I thought you said that cancer COULD be an issue…now you’re on a sunbed??’; ‘And yet you have cancer worries, why would you take thst risk?

‘Skin cancer right there…lol…’; ‘Well that’s not good Katie if your worried about a cancer scare going on the sun beds.’

Katie recently revealed that she’s undergoing tests amid new cancer fears- 23 years after she first beat the disease.

Discussing her anxieties on the latest episode of The Katie Price Show, Katie mentioned that the current symptoms she’s experiencing are in the same finger where she had cancer previously.

She shared: “It’s strange, you know I had cancer years ago. For those unaware, I developed a cancer called leiomyosarcoma when I was expecting Harvey.”

The 47-year-old model, recently hospitalized due to worrying weight loss, has expressed her concern about the potential return of the rare cancer leiomyosarcoma.

Fans shared their concerns in the comments section, writing: ‘Talks about Cancer scares, then posts on a sun bed???’

Back in 2002, at age 24, she disclosed her diagnosis of this unusual cancer while she was pregnant with her son Harvey, who is now 23 (pictured with Harvey and her daughter Princess in 2009).

Katie continued: ‘If you look at my finger, there is like a hole there and a scar there, I had it cut out twice. Can you see that dent? It never hurt.

‘But a lump started coming up and I thought I had been riding and done something to my finger.

‘But anyway cut the long story short it was leiomyosarcoma so I had to have MRI scans and all of that for six years until I was clear.’

She added: ‘The same finger here, up here, this is about three weeks ago, I thought, have I knocked it? Because it hurts when I push it but there’s no lump. 

‘And it (the pain) still hasn’t gone. So I’m going to get that X-rayed and looked at so I hope it’s not that again.

‘This better not be my bad news, and get bad results, because all this is happening, and then normally in my life something good happens and then something bad happens. Let’s hope it’s nothing bad.’ 

At the time of her first cancer diagnosis, Katie saw an alternative medic who assured her it was nothing to worry about, after she was unable to see her regular GP as they were on holiday.

However, she noticed the lump kept increasing in size, prompting her to seek another opinion.

At the time, she said: ‘I kept a close eye on this lump and over the months it was getting bigger and bigger.

‘I was starting to get worried so I went back to the surgery on two more occasions but never managed to see my regular GP. Each time I was told the same thing, “It’s nothing to worry about but keep an eye on it”.

‘When it still continued to grow I returned for a fourth time and thankfully was able to see my own GP. He took one look at the lump and immediately expressed concern.’

She was referred to a specialist in Hove, East Sussex, but she had to wait until she had given birth before tests could be carried out.

Over the weekend, Katie – who has previously denied using weight loss medication – told fans that she doesn’t know why she has been losing so much weight while giving a health update on Snapchat.  

Over the weekend, Katie – who has previously denied using weight loss medication – told fans that she doesn’t know why she has been losing so much weight while giving a health update

The ex-glamour model has left fans concerned over her slimmed-down figure for months, and previously stepped on the scales  to reveal her weight as 7st 12lb in June 

While at the hospital, Katie said she needed to get some stitches removed after she cut herself with a knife while cooking a curry.

Speaking on her Snapchat Story, Katie claimed that she ‘doesn’t know why’ her frame is shrinking so much as she undergoes tests.

She began: ‘I’ve been up early at the doctors so she could do some bloods and because my veins are so s*** they had three attempts. 

‘They could only fill two tubes up, so I’ve got to go back in two weeks.’ 

Katie added: ‘And I’ve got to have my stitches out then because they looked at my little stab wound that I did. 

‘The reason I’m going to the doctors is because I keep losing weight and I don’t know why. So that’s that.’  

It came just days after Katie sparked concern amongst her fans after revealing she spent the night in A&E after cutting herself.

Revealing the seriousness of the gory injury, she explained that the knife had ripped through her ligaments and nerves, leaving half her hand numb. 

Katie shared several graphic photos showing the deep cut in her tattooed left wrist.

She also showed how it looked after it had been stitched back up in the hospital and posted a look at the long blade of the knife she’d been using.

It came just days after Katie sparked concern amongst her fans after revealing she spent the night in A&E after she cut herself while making a chicken curry 

The former glamour model, 47, had to get stitches after the incident 

Explaining the accident to her followers, she wrote: ‘Last night I accidentally stabbed myself with a knife, you can see on the injury how deep it was, and I had to have stitches’.

She posted a photo of an A&E sign lit up at night and wrote: ‘Not what I had on my Bingo card for Friday night.’

The ex-glamour model has left fans concerned over her slimmed-down figure for months, and previously addressed her drastic weight loss in May.

But back then, she had seemed pretty pleased about it, saying she had wanted to lose weight.  

Speaking to fans on Snapchat, she said: ‘Yes I’ve lost weight. Yes that’s what I’ve wanted to do, I’ve wanted to lose weight.

‘Because… three, four years ago when I broke my feet I was in a wheelchair for ten months because they said I’d never walk again, and obviously you put weight on being in a wheelchair.

‘And then I did all the IVF stuff, that also puts on weight. So yeah, I did put on weight and I hated it, I felt uncomfortable and it wasn’t me.’

Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast last year, Katie explained that she has never been happy with her body.

She said: ‘I always said I haven’t got body dysmorphia but there’s definitely something, I don’t know what it is… I’ve never looked in the mirror and thought I’m pretty or whatever.’