Katie Price‘s son Harvey, 22, is to begin using weight loss jabs in a bid to help improve his life.
The TV star, 46, has revealed her eldest son, who weighs 28 stone, will start a course of an Ozempic-style jab after consulting her son’s doctors.
Harvey is blind, autistic, has septo-optic dysplasia, a learning disability, and has Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder.
A recognised symptom of Prader-Willi syndrome is a constant hunger and Katie fears her son may die without further intervention after trying a number of different weight loss strategies over the years.
Speaking to The Sun to raise awareness, Katie explained that Harvey’s doctors have advised he may be taking the jabs for up to two years.
‘It’s really, really serious and life-changing for Harvey,’ she said. ‘He’s at risk of a heart attack, and because of his condition, he’s not getting any smaller. He’s putting on weight. It doesn’t matter what we do.
‘So the doctors are doing it to give him a better, longer life, and for his health.’
Katie Price ‘s son Harvey, 22, is to begin using weight loss jabs in a bid to help improve his lifeT
The mum-of-five added: ‘The good thing about starting him on the drug is, if it has any effect, you can stop it because you do it weekly. We’ve tried food, he’s had dietitians, it’s just the way he is.
‘They want to try him on it for at least one or two years, which is a long time, but they’ll control what level he needs then up it as they assess it.’
Katie has publicly advocated for her son’s needs since his birth.
Last year she was left devastated after her local authority refused to fund Harvey’s care because he has ‘no healthcare issues’ – months after she was forced to withdraw him from a £350,000-a-year college amid her bankruptcy woes.
The former glamour model revealed how an assessor concluded that her 22-year-old son ‘only needs social care’.
Katie filmed his move into National Star College in Gloucester in 2021 as part of BBC documentary Katie Price: Harvey and Me.
It featured highs and lows for Harvey as he adjusted to living without his mother for the first time in his life.
Katie has raised Harvey, whose father is former footballer Dwight York, alone.
She took Harvey to a GP when he was just a few weeks old, after a health visitor noticed he struggled to follow a light with his eyes.
But Katie has previously said was stunned by the treatment she got from the GP during the shocking moment her son was first diagnosed as a baby.
She said on the Anything Goes podcast with James English: ‘I remember sitting there with my mum and he [the doctor] was getting all his stuff out looking in his eyes and then suddenly just went, as blatant as this, “yeah he’s blind, yeah he’s blind”.
