Peter Andre, the soon-to-be ex-husband of Katie Price, used to be the subject of a lot of mockery. But now that he’s divorcing the glamour model and she’s constantly photographed out partying, Peter is getting a great deal of sympathy in the British press. Last week Katie talked about suffering a miscarriage last year, violating a pact she and Peter had made to keep the tragedy private. Peter is expectedly livid.

Peter Andre has hit back at his estranged wife Katie Price following her tell-all interview about their break-up. The devoted father criticised the glamour model for revealing she had suffered a miscarriage, saying they had agreed to keep their loss private. In a carefully worded weekly column for New! magazine, Andre wrote: ‘By revealing all about the baby we lost, Kate went against everything we said we’d never do.’

The 36-year-old made his comments before coming face to face with his estranged wife yesterday, as he collected their three children. Katie is believed to have been paid £100,000 for the interview, which aired on ITV on Saturday night. But Andre said she should not have talked about their lost child. ‘The miscarriage was a devastating time for us both, but I strongly believe it should have remained private,’ he wrote. ‘Unfortunately, what Kate says is out of my control. I can’t control what other people do. I can only control what comes out of my mouth.’

Andre said he had not intended to watch Price’s first major interview since the separation as ‘I don’t care what she says’. But he ended up watching it with his mother and brother, Mike, as he wanted to know what she was going to say about their family. Andre also vowed to remain celibate for a few months. He said: ‘I’m determined to see it out. I think it’s the most honourable thing to do while going through a break-up.’ He denied rumours that Chantelle Houghton of Celebrity Big Brother fame was his new girlfriend, saying: ‘Absolutely not. I’m still hurting over what has happened in the last few months.’

In the interview, a sobbing Katie, 32, revealed she was ten weeks pregnant with her fourth child – her third to Andre – when she returned to London from their three-month stint in Los Angeles. A doctor then told her he was unable to find the foetus’s heartbeat and she was forced to have a termination just days before running the London Marathon. Andre announced his plans for divorce just weeks later.

She said: ‘Emotionally for any woman, whether you’re in the media or not, to have a baby died, run the marathon, which is also a big thing on your body, and then your husband wants a divorce. That’s a lot for someone to take in.’ But she plans to waste no time moving on and later declared: ‘I’m back on the market, boys!’

[From the Daily Mail]

I can understand why Peter would be upset that Katie shared something so private that they’d decided not to talk about publicly. And while we often think of a miscarriage as something that just happens to the woman, a man can obviously be deeply affected by it as well. It sounds like Peter found the process grief-inducing – as did Katie – and he was genuinely shocked that she’d talk about it. That said, hearing Katie talk about it, my heart goes out to her as well. Not necessarily for sharing it, but for having to go through it. And while she did share something private within their marriage, she didn’t share something private or negative about Peter. It would have been decent of her to do him the courtesy of letting him know she was going to talk about it – it seems like a big part of Peter’s feelings of violation are because of the shock he felt.

Peter says he’s not writing a tell-all book and while he’s doing some interviews as well, claims he’s not “spilling the beans” about their marriage. That’s probably why he’s generally getting the more sympathetic press coverage.

Here’s Peter doing the exchange of the kids with Katie Price in Brighton, England yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.com .