A young woman from Kent has described a modelling assignment with Katie Price as the greatest day of her life.

Sarah Phillips won a photoshoot with the glamour model, known also as Jordan, after entering a competition on the star’s website.

Sarah, from Greenhill, near Herne Bay, said: It was brilliant, the best day of my life.”

And for someone who a few years ago was given just three days to live that is quite a claim. “Half an ecstasy tablet killed my liver,” she said.

It was not long after a last-ditch liver transplant saved her life that Sarah, then a teenager, began following the career of Katie Price.

“I’ve always liked her but when she went into the jungle for I’m a Celebrity I liked her even more,” she says. “I just thought she was hilarious.

“And I think she’s a great model, I like her poses. I’ve also got all her books, which I love, and I’ve got the same tattoo on my right wrist that she has.”

Now 25, Sarah was 18 when her first and only dabble with the drug ecstasy left her close to death. The half-tablet reacted with her liver, destroying it over six months until family members were told to fear the worst.

But a liver match was found just in time.

Now Sarah’s fight back to full health has mirrored the meteoric rise in the celebrity status of her hero.

The former Briary Primary and Canterbury High pupil is employed as a mental health worker for MCCH in Station Road, Herne Bay.

Jordan has morphed into Katie Price, married to become Katie Andre and has lines in modelling, lingerie, books, TV programmes, not to mention magazine deals.

The two met for the first time last year. “I’m on her website so whenever she does a book signing I get a 'meet and greet’,” says Sarah.

“I went up to see her again in Bluewater in February and that’s when she told me I had to enter the photoshoot competition.”

Sarah, who shares the family home in Greenhil with mum, stepdad and sister, was one of just six girls to be selected to model alongside Katie Price.

“Make-up took 45 minutes, hair took 25 minutes,” Sarah says.

“The shoot itself was only two minutes but it felt like 20. My cheeks were hurting so much from having to smile!”

But after the shoot Sarah couldn’t stop laughing at having modelled with her hero, who she plans to see again at a book signing in the summer.

“Over the past few years the person who’s inspired me most has been Katie Price,” says Sarah.