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Katie Piper |
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| Born | October 12, 1983 Andover, Hampshire, England |
| Years active | 2006-current |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Nationality | British |
| Body | |
| Bra/cup size | 34C (75C) |
| Boobs | Enhanced |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
| Body type | Slim |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Hair | Blonde |
| Performances | |
| Shown | Topless |
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Katherine "Katie" Piper is a British glamour model, activist, author, philanthropist, and TV presenter.
Early Career
Piper's father was a barber and she became a beautician to follow in his footsteps. Piper subsequently began a career in modelling; she took part in various fashion, glamour and promotional photo shoots during her career, including modelling for national newspapers.[1]
Piper also entered competitive beauty pageants and contests; she was the 2nd runner-up in the Miss Winchester 2006 beauty pageant,[2] and took part in Maxim magazine's Little Black Book contest in 2006.
Piper also began work as a promotional model – appearing and carrying out publicity duties at live events, such as working as a ring-card girl at martial arts fixtures. It was through her work as a ring-girl that Piper became known within the MMA (mixed martial arts) community.
Piper also conducted a career as a digital television presenter, working principally on web-TV shows and features, and on small digital television channels, primarily in the shopping and live-chat fields. As her career began to develop, Piper moved away from her family home in Hampshire, and began to live with friends in a flat in the Golders Green area of North London.
Assault and Acid Attack
Daniel Lynch, a martial arts enthusiast who had been tracking Piper's media and modelling career, met her through the online social site Facebook. The two first met in person in Reading, Berkshire, where Piper had been working, and initially Piper was pleased with the relationship. Two weeks into their relationship, the couple booked into a hotel in Bayswater, following a meal out. In the hotel room, Lynch raped and beat Piper, threatened to cut her with a razor and hang her, and stabbed her several times in the arms. After eight hours at the hotel, they drove back to Piper's Golders Green flat. Piper was treated for her wounds at Royal Free Hospital, but withheld the nature of the incident from the doctors and police, because she was afraid of Lynch. Piper received numerous phone calls and apologies from Lynch. On 31 March 2008, two days after the initial attack, Lynch persuaded Piper to go to an internet cafe to read an email he had sent to her Facebook account. Lynch gave her details to Stefan Sylvestre, who identified her on Golders Green Road. Wearing a hoodie to obscure his identity, Sylvestre approached Piper, who thought he was going to ask for money, and then threw sulphuric acid at her face. [3]
The attack was caught on CCTV, and both Lynch and Sylvestre were later arrested.[4]
Lynch received two life sentences, and will serve a minimum of 16 years. Sylvestre received a life sentence, and was told he would serve a minimum of 12 years. However, after nine years of imprisonment, Sylvestre’s parole application for release was approved in 2018.
Immediately after the attack, Piper ran into a local café, where an ambulance was called. She spent 2 months in the Burns Unit at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital where she was placed in an induced coma in intensive care. Katie's surgeon Dr. Mohammad Ali Jawad and his team performed pioneering surgery on Katie. They chose to remove the dead layers of skin from Katie's face and rebuild the foundations of it using a dermal substitute called Matriderm along with skin grafts from her back and buttocks. It was the first of its kind in the world to be done as a single stage operation.[5]
Katie then went to an intensive burn rehabilitation unit in France to undertake a long period of scar management techniques.
She had to wear a plastic pressure mask for 23 hours a day for two years as part of her treatment. Her injuries also meant that she needed to be fed through a tube in her stomach as reforming scar tissue in her throat restricted her ability to eat and drink. The acid also left her blinded in one eye. [6]
Post-Attack Career
Following her recovery and the successful establishment of the Katie Piper Foundation, Piper again moved out of the family home and returned to living alone in London, a process documented in episodes of Katie: My Beautiful Face; she later moved to live with her partner Richard Sutton, a carpenter and eventual father of her first child Belle Elizabeth, whom she gave birth to in March 2014. Although no longer a resident there, Piper continues to maintain strong links with Andover and Hampshire, where her family remains. Her and Sutton announced their engagement in December 2014 and married eleven months later in November 2015. In December 2017, she gave birth to their second daughter.
Although Piper had the right to remain anonymous because of the sexual assault, she chose to waive her anonymity, in an attempt to increase public awareness of the situation for burn victims, and also the treatment they go through.[7] Piper also took part in a documentary about her experience, Katie: My Beautiful Face, which was aired by Channel 4 in the UK on 29 October 2009. The documentary has been made available for global sale by Mentorn International and has been picked up by several on-demand services over the Internet.
On 8 January 2010, the ABC (US)'s news-magazine television series 20/20 featured Katie Piper as its primary subject. The program consisted of a new interview with Piper, conducted by Elizabeth Vargas, and footage of Piper at home, including material which had appeared in Katie: My Beautiful Face. In May 2010, it was confirmed that Piper would be involved in a new series for Channel 4. The series would again see Piper working with Mentorn Media, featuring her speaking with and interviewing various people who have been disfigured, disabled or physically altered as a result of illness, injury, assault, accident or surgery. The series was titled Katie: My Beautiful Friends, and began its four-part run on 22 March 2011. Items of supporting information and relevant associated content relating to the programme were placed on the Channel 4 website in tandem with the program's broadcast. The series was broadcast in America on the OWN on 16 August 2011.
On 7 February 2012, Channel 4 broadcast a new one-off film featuring Piper as she prepared to undergo stem-cell surgery in a bid to restore sight in her damaged left eye. Katie: The Science of Seeing Again saw Piper look into the biology of the eye, visit America to look into the religious and moral debate around the use of embryos in stem-cell research, and monitored her as she underwent the treatment by surgeon Sheraz Daya at Centre for Sight in East Grinstead, West Sussex. As with Piper's five previous Channel 4 films, this was produced by Mentorn Media. Within the program Piper revealed she had undergone 109 medical operations in the four years since the acid attack, with the eye operation being her 110th.
She has gone on to appear on more television and documentaries on both British and American television. Since February 2011, she has also began writing, publishing her autobiography Beautiful at that time. She has also written weekly columns for Reveal magazine, Sunday Mirror, Trinity Mirror, and Sunday People. She was a contestant on the British dancing show Strictly Come Dancing.
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