Katie Price warns son Harvey ‘will die’ unless he gets weight loss jabs
Katie Price has made the severity of her concern for her son Harvey’s health clear, saying she fears he will ‘die of a heart attack’ without medical intervention.
Harvey, 23, has a rare genetic disorder called Prader-Willi syndrome, a symptom of which is a permanent feeling of hunger that can lead to obesity.
On the latest episode of her podcast, The Katie Price Show, the reality TV star says she’s been trying to get her oldest son on weight loss jabs.
She said: ‘I’ve been on the case to doctors about putting him on the Mounjaro.
‘I’m actually going to put some up on Instagram to say, is there any private doctors out there because the NHS are so – I’m not slagging the NHS off, but they know he’s in the obese category. When he sleeps, I worry because he’s snoring and wheezing.
‘Then sometimes he holds his breath and I’m like, he’s massive, Sophie. He’s just getting bigger and he’ll end up dying of a heart attack.’
She continued, explaining she’d previously been told by doctors that his weight might put fatal strain on his heart: ‘They’ve already told me years ago that if you don’t lose weight, he’s prone to a heart attack.
‘I just feel so bad, so I’m going to have to do something. I mean, I’m not going to inject him myself because that’s not medically right to do for him. But something needs to be done.’
In a post on Snapchat last year, Katie shared her concerns about her son, saying: ‘I’m so heartbroken and gutted that his weight is just going up. I just googled it in stones, 188kg is just a few kg of being 30 stone.’
Katie went on to reveal that she was hoping Harvey’s doctors would give him the green light to start weight loss jabs to help him shed some pounds and stay healthy.
She added: ‘I’m still waiting for the doctors to get back to me starting on the Mounjaro and his journey to a healthy life. It’s so sad his quality of life at the moment where he’s so big, he just can’t really do much.
‘It’s just another thing I have to deal with because he’s at high risk of having a heart attack, he struggles to put his trainers or struggles to walk anywhere but I love him and I’m going to help him through this.
‘So sad, obesity and his condition is sad, it’s sad to see someone go through it and he doesn’t understand.’
Harvey is also autistic and is partially blind due to septo-optic dysplasia, which affects the optic nerve.
Katie has long been a huge advocate for her son, becoming a full-time caregiver for most of Harvey’s life.
In 2020, she discussed the difficult decision to enrol him in a boarding facility to receive special care when she was struggling to cope.
More recently, news broke that Katie’s new husband, Lee Andrews, got a tattoo of Harvey’s name despite the fact that they’ve never actually met.
Since marrying the Dubai-based businessman in late January, she’s been jetting back and forth from the UK to visit her partner after reports emerged he was subject to a ‘travel ban’.
Although he denies this, Lee does not have appeared to leave the country since marrying Katie. He’s also still not met any of her children, including Harvey.
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