A plastic surgeon has warned women not to try to emulate Katie Price's enthusiasm for implants as the model's skin showed signs of strain after her latest operation.

Brighton-born Katie, who recently ditched her Jordan alias, is thought to have consulted cosmetic surgeon Brent Tanner after becoming worried her famous chest was starting to sag.

Mr Tanner, honorary consultant at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, operated to give Katie's chest a lift.

However, photographs of the 25-year-old former Page 3 star receiving a Cover Girl Of The Decade award from Loaded magazine this month reveal creases under each breast.

Mr Tanner refused to comment but fellow plastic surgeon John Davison is not surprised the burden of her 32FF, 7lb breasts has taken a toll on her 5ft 1in frame. He suggested one option to remedy the damage might be to go even larger - yet this was still fraught with longer-term risks.

Mr Davison, who works at the Queen Victoria and his own clinic at Gatwick Park, said: "The simplest thing to do now would be to put in a bigger breast implant. This fills out all the excess skin but you do get into a cycle of needing to do it all the time, with the end point being you have to take the implants out and put in something more reasonably-sized.

"Then you'd do fairly extensive uplift surgery which can leave scarring. You're more likely to run into the sort of problem Jordan's having the bigger the implants you have. I encourage patients not to go too big.

"Breasts drop and wrinkle as part of normal ageing but the heavier the implants, the worse it gets and the looser the skin becomes."

Katie, a former Patcham High School pupil who lives in Maresfield, was a natural 32B when she began modelling in 1996.

By August 1998 she had grown naturally to 36C - but told The Argus she had always been unhappy with her chest so was having the first of her enlargement operations. She revealed plans to have £5,000 hydrogel implants at a London clinic the following month, saying: "Having bigger boobs would make me more confident."

She admitted her mother Amy and then-boyfriend Warren Furman - alias TV Gladiator Ace - were against the operation.

After the implants took her to a D-cup, she said: "The first thing I did when I came round was peer down the dressings to have a look. I couldn't believe how huge I was. I loved it."

Two later breast ops took her to 32FF - displayed with no apparent crumples during January's I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! TV series.

Mr Tanner has worked as a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon since 1984, mainly at the Queen Victoria Hospital.

He now works in private practice.

He operated on Ms Price at the BUPA Hospital in Tunbridge Wells.

A spokeswoman for Mr Tanner said: "It's our policy not to comment on any of our patients at all."