Love, Lipstick and Lies by Katie Price

from his mime. I couldn’t resist taking a picture of us together and putting it straight on Twitter. I think I must still have been drunk because I never usually do that kind of thing. We swapped numbers and then he was gone and we had to head to the Hollywood Hills for my shoot with OK!
    All I can say is, thank God for cosmetics. I was knackered and shagged out. Literally. Leo had been a very energetic and passionate lover. I needed Gary to work his magic, pile on the slap (a technical term) and make me beautiful! After a good two hours, he had transformed me from hungover, dirty stop out to swan. You would never know to look at me that I’d only had an hour’s sleep, or what I had been up to all night.
    The shoot was at a stunning modern house in Beverly Hills, with an infinity pool and breathtaking views of the whole of LA. But all I could think about was Leo. Please let him text me or call me, I thought, checking my phone at every available opportunity during the eighteen costume changes. I even broke my own ruleand texted him first, saying, Hi, it’s Kate. Hope you had a good flight and to hear from you soon . That sounded so polite and formal after our wild night of passion. What I wanted to say was, Text me! I can’t stop thinking about you! I kept looking at the picture I’d taken of him. He was so gorgeous! I really wanted to see him again. I didn’t know anything about him, not what he did for a living nor how old he was. Nothing apart from his name, Leandro. Nor did he know anything about me. He definitely didn’t seem to know that I was famous back in the UK, which was all to the good.
    My plan to stay single was in shreds. I was head over heels in lust with a man who couldn’t speak English, but the chemistry was so strong I couldn’t resist it. Believe me, I know it sounds nuts after being with someone only a matter of hours, but it was true. Of course at that stage it was a purely physical attraction because I couldn’t really tell what his personality was like. He certainly looked the part. It was only much, much later, when his English had improved, that he turned out to be the biggest prick of all the men I have ever been with!

CHAPTER 6
I HAVE TO SEE HIM AGAIN!
    It’s hard, because of how my relationship with Leo turned out, to look back on that time in February 2011 and be objective. I do feel a great deal of bitterness about the things he said and did when we split up, which made me question if he had ever been genuine … But if I keep all that out of my head, the fact was that the start of our relationship was very romantic. There we were, two strangers who had fallen for each other straight away. It seemed like fate.
    But the fact we didn’t speak the same language was not going to make this relationship easy. My friend Lisa, who lives out in LA, set up a translator for me on my phone so that when Leo texted me I was able to copy and paste the text and then translate it. From then on he and I texted each other all the time. I found out that hewas a model and TV presenter, and he was Argentinian. He gave the impression that he was very well known in his own country. Okay, so it wasn’t great that he lived on a different continent and didn’t speak English, but it seemed a positive sign that he at least came from the same industry as me and that he was famous. As I’ve already said, one of the many things that drove Alex and me apart was his thirst for celebrity. But Leo was already famous. He wouldn’t have to use me or my name to promote himself, I thought. That would be a first.
    I don’t think you can help your feelings or who you fall for. I knew it was under two months since I had split from Alex, though the truth was our relationship had been over a long time before that. And I knew other people would think I should wait a while before having another relationship. But my feelings for Leo were overwhelming and they felt right to me. I had asked him if he had Googled me, thinking,