Katie Price Calls For Age Limit On Breast Implants Following PIP Scandal

Katie Price has called for an age limit on breast implants, following the PIP scandal.

The former glamour model, also known as Jordan, said boob jobs should have an age limit of 21.

"If I had it my way, I think there should be an age limit for a start. I had my first boob job when I was 18 and realistically I think that's a bit too young," she told BBC's Newsnight.

Her comments come after a senior director of the NHS warned MPs women who had PIP implants faced "significant uncertainty."

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS Medical Director, said in the wake of the scandal: "We are dealing with significant uncertainty. It's that level of uncertainty which creates the anxiety with relation to the 'ticking timebomb'."He told the Commons Health Committee that of the 40,000 women in Britain with PIP implants - made from industrial-grade silicone and believed to be at greater risk of rupture or toxic contamination than more expensive medical-grade implants - only 745 women received these PIPs on the NHS.

Those women are entitled to free surgery to have their implants removed and replaced, but the rest of those living in England with private implants won't get replacements on the NHS. Sir Bruce said private providers had a moral obligation to help their former customers, but evidence to the committee revealed the industry was in disarray.

In January health secretary Andrew Lansley announced a review into cosmetic procedures, saying: "This is not just important for us in the wake of the breast implant scandal from France... We want to make it a proactive opportunity to look at safety."