Katie Price worries her son Harvey will ‘end up dying of a heart attack’ if he doesn’t lose weight soon.
The star’s eldest son, 23, has Prader-Willi syndrome, which sparks a persistent urge to eat food and an enduring sense of hunger, which leads to obesity.
He also battles a string of debilitating conditions, including autism, septo-optic dysplasia, ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder.
In April 2025, his weight had reached nearly 30 stone before modifications to his diet helped him lose 1.5 stone.
Last year, Katie said she had a plan with Harvey’s medical team to put him on the weight loss jab Mounjaro, but in an update, the mum expressed her frustrations that he still hasn’t been prescribed it.
‘I’ve been on the case to doctors about putting him on the Mounjaro,’ she explained to her sister Sophie on the latest episode of their podcast The Katie Price Show.
Katie said she was going to resort to asking any doctors among her Instagram followers for help.
‘I’m actually going to put something up on Instagram to say, is there any private doctors out there? Because the NHS are so much… 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. And then sometimes he holds his breath, and I’m like, he’s massive. He’s just getting bigger, and he’ll end up dying of a heart attack.’
‘They’ve already told me years ago that if he don’t lose weight, he’s prone to a heart attack.’
Katie added that she ‘just feels so bad’ and said she was determined to help but pointed out: ‘I’m not going to inject him myself because that’s not medically right to do for him, but something needs to be done. He’s just huge.’
In November, Katie said doctors were keen for Harvey to be put on a new weight loss drug ‘in the new year’ after it had completed clinical trials, but added that ‘if he goes on Mounjaro first and then goes onto this new one, it will work a lot quicker’.
At the time, she explained that ‘the reason he hasn’t started Mounjaro yet is because they were trying to get him to lose weight through his diet, to try all avenues’.
In the most recent episode of her podcast, Katie also updated her listeners on Harvey’s living circumstances.
This woman can afford to buy Mounjaro, so I’m not sure why she isn’t. Also, it sounds like Harvey has sleep apnea, so why does he not have a sleep apnea machine?
If she stopped all her surgeries, holidays, cars and men, then she could afford to buy Mounjaro, and get him in to see a private doctor.
Sadly, Prader-Willi syndrome is complex, and one of the symptoms is an insatiable appetite, and it’s like they are a constant dustbin.
The life expectancy for people with Prader-Willi syndrome can vary greatly based on various factors, but the median age of death for those with PWS is about 30 years old. However, some have lived longer.
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