KATIE Price has revealed her heartbreak after learning that son Harvey’s weight has now crept up to nearly 30 stone.
The mum-of-five told fans how the 22-year-old’s life is at risk because of his size, as she gave an update on his ongoing fight.
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The TV personality’s eldest child has Prader-Willi syndrome, which sparks a constant desire to eat food and a permanent feeling of hunger which leads to obesity.
In a new video today, Katie revealed: “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.
“It’s so life-threatening now, I’m still waiting for the doctors to get back to me starting on the mounjaro and his journey to a healthy life.”
She continued: “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.”
In February Katie told The Sun she consulted top doctors who suggested starting Harvey on the jabs in a bid to improve his chances of living longer.
Harvey battles a series of debilitating conditions including autism, septo-optic dysplasia, ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder.
He is still treated at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for children even though he’s an adult.
At the time, she told us: “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.
“And he’s on a lot of medication which the drug won’t affect.
“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.”
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‘Godzilla’ of fat jabs
Dr Mitra Dutt, a GP from Lloyds Pharmacy Online Doctor, says: “Mounjaro works by activating two hormonal receptors (GIP and GLP-1), which enhance insulin production, improve insulin sensitivity and work to decrease food intake.”
Saxenda, which contains the active ingredient liraglutide, is another weight loss jab that’s been available on the NHS since 2020.
While Mounjaro is hailed as the “King Kong” fat jabs, a new weight loss drug dubbed “Godzilla” looks set to displace it.
Containing the active ingredient retatrutide, slimmers trying the drug lost up to 29 per cent of their weight in less than a year.
By comparison, trial results showed semaglutide, known as Ozempic, could lead to 15 per cent weight loss and tirzepatide, aka Mounjaro, to 23 per cent.
Retatrutide acts on three different receptors in the brain, “turbocharging” calorie burning while dulling hunger pangs.
Existing weight-loss jabs only suppress appetite, whereas the new treatment also speeds up metabolism.
The new drug is still undergoing clinical trials so it’s not yet known if it will be made available on the NHS.
