I’m worried about the showers... I don’t have a celeb body

hoping the layers of fake tan she has applied will boost her confidence, even though it won’t last the duration.

She joked: “I’m going to be the only contestant that’s going to get whiter as the time goes on.

“Because I’m not very good in the sun and they make you wear 50-plus sun block, because the sun is fierce here.

“So as it washes off, I’m going to get gradually whiter. When I emerge, I’m going to be and blotchy and ridiculous.

“So yes, it’s going to be a very rapid and rather grim descent into feral.”

She added: “I’ve got a lot cellulite and my thinking was brown cellulite is better than white cellulite.

“It’s not much to cling to, but what’s I’m clinging to right now.”

Kate says she will be inspired to face the rest of her jungle challenges by “fearit’s less” daughter Darcey, 13.

She explained: “My daughter’s really brave.

“If there’s any activity when we go on holiday, she wants to do everything. Even things she’s too young to do, she’ll say, “Oh, how long is it before I can do that?

“So she said to me, ‘Whenever you’re faced with a trial, don’t think about it. Just think, what would Darcey do? And just do it’.

“So that’s going to be my motto, what would Darcey do?”

Kate also has close friends who are fighting breast cancer, which she says

SHOWER Katie Price in 2009 will put the whole experience – however grim – into perspective. “One of them, who I’ve known since we were babies has it for the second time and is fighting a genuine battle. “So I kind of feel however bad the trials are, there are really big things going on in the real world.” Even so, leaving behind husband Derek Draper and two children Darcey and William, nine, was a massive wrench.

Recalling the emotional goodbye, she said: “I left very early in the morning. So we said a big goodbye and snuggled them in bed and I thought that was it.

“Then when I got up, they all got up. The kids came downstairs and, I’m going to cry now, they made me cards, and goodwill messages, and poems.

“So my whole journey to the airport I was just in floods of tears.”

Kate is a firm believer in the mental health benefits of being close to nature.

But she admits that she will miss the “luxury” of modern life.

“I’m going through massive waves of anxiety because I haven’t got my phone,” she admitted.

“I think it would be very good for me to sort of have a massive digital detox and maybe it’ll help me sort of re-evaluate my priorities.”