‘In the States, they’re injecting 12-year-olds. That isn’t here yet, but it’s on the way’ – Kathryn Thomas on her documentary The Skinny Jab Revolution

The broadcaster delves into the good, bad and ugly effects of weight-loss drugs in an increasingly unregulated industry and shares her feelings on Operation Transformation’s cancellation as she settles into her own radio show on Q102

Behind the scenes with Kathryn Thomas

‘No, I didn’t!” Kathryn Thomas exclaims, when I ask if she tried the weight-loss drugs that recently sat in her fridge for about two months. She’s talking about her forthcoming two-part documentary for RTÉ, The Skinny Jab Revolution and how worryingly easy these medications are to obtain.

“I was able to get drugs like that in 24 hours,” Thomas says, adding that she never took them because of what she’d learned during the making of the series, not only about the weight-loss drugs, but also about the people taking them and their experiences. “Not that I’d be too nervous to take them, but I wouldn’t want to belittle it either from what I know about shortages of medication and all the unfair…