Kate Elizabeth Piper is one of the most famous TV presenters and models in the UK. The girl gained the greatest popularity thanks to her published book entitled Beauty, which later became a real bestseller. This book is a reflection of the tragic events that occurred with Katie Piper herself. All the stories in the book are real and happened with the main character in fact. Her work quickly became popular not only in the city where she lives, but also in many countries of the world. Many people from Russia also know about the life of the famous Katie Piper. Films are made about her, articles are written, communities are created on social networks. Her story about inner beauty, about her dream, about a terrible tragedy makes millions of people think about real life values. But what happened to her? Katie Piper from the UK opens the curtain of her life.
Biography
Katie was born in a UK city on October 12, 1983. Like many other girls, she always dreamed of becoming a TV presenter and a model. At the age of thirteen, Katie Piper loved to do beautiful makeup with her school friends. And at twenty-two years, the girl seriously thought about the career of a model. She always loved to be in the spotlight, and that the boys would turn their eyes to her and admire her beauty. She liked to dress fashionably and stylishly, liked to do hairstyles and makeup. But all her dreams and aspirations instantly collapsed due to one tragic incident that occurred in 2008 through the fault of two people. Acid was poured onto the girl, after which her face was badly damaged. Now these people are serving their sentences in the colony. And the main culprit of the tragedy is imprisoned for the rest of his life.
What happened next?
Katie had to go through many obstacles. Her face was recovering painfully for a long time after the tragedy. A year after the tragedy, the girl nevertheless managed to realize her dream - she was shown on TV. This was the very first transmission with her participation. In it, Katie told her terrifying story in the hope that people would change their minds and not do stupid things. The program brought popularity to the journalist, after which she wrote her famous book. In addition to this profession, Kate works in a charity that helps people with similar problems.
Personal life
Now the TV presenter is 34 years old, and she is married to actor Richard James Sutton. In March 2014, the couple was born a little Belle Sutton, and after a couple of years - another child. Katie recalls that her marriage day was the best day of her life. Only the closest friends and, of course, parents were at the celebration. All invitees supported a young married couple, filled up with her congratulations, gifts and compliments. Richard was completely indifferent to Katy's face problem. He was most struck by the girl’s warm heart. He admired the fact that she was able to overcome so many obstacles and not lose heart. He liked the fact that she was always ready to help other people, solve their problems, give advice.
Daniel Lynch
Prior to Richard, Katie liked another guy who later ruined the life of a young journalist. This man was 33 years old and his name was Daniel Lynch. Katie found out about him through social networks, in which she spent most of her free time. Acquaintance with the guy happened just in one of the social networks - on Facebook. They began to actively communicate and in the process to know each other better. Katie realized that she was starting to like the guy slowly. Soon, the lovers gave each other their mobile phone numbers and agreed to meet.
According to Katie Piper, Daniel Lynch was very kind and shy, he always presented the girl with huge bouquets of flowers and toys. At the first meeting, he gave her a teddy bear. The girl literally melted from such gifts and compliments thrown at her. And Piper gradually fell in love with him more. After the first date, the guy began to call Katie several times a day, write huge messages on social networks, send emoticons and much more. Once the girl’s account was even blocked due to suspicious activity on her page. So the personal life of Katie Piper was adjusted, the story of which is further.
Ruined life
However, Daniel was not such a good and sweet guy for long. One beautiful day, the couple went to the supermarket for new sneakers for Lynch. At that time, they were together for a relatively short time - only two weeks. At first everything went fine, but suddenly an unpleasant incident occurred. The guy was very angry with the seller of shoes because of some little things and almost hit him. The girl was struck by the unexpected behavior of her boyfriend, and, without thinking twice, she invited him to leave. In addition, she was very tired of Lynch's constant calls and a lot of long messages on social networks.
Lynch's scary story
The poor girl did not even suspect who she had contacted. The fact is that before, Daniel was convicted of the fact that in a fit of anger he poured hot water over the face of his friend, but Kate he did not talk about it. Daniel reacted calmly and positively to the issue of ending the relationship. When the couple broke up, Daniel invited the journalist to the last date, which was supposed to end the relationship, but everything happened differently. Lynch ordered expensive wine, the couple talked calmly and sat in a small cafe. After that, a man got up with a girl in a hotel room. Katie was already starting to think about getting the relationship back because she thought the man wasn’t as bad as she saw him in the shoe store. However, when they entered the room, the guy got mad, rushed at Kate, tore his clothes, brutally raped and beat the woman. The blood of the poor helpless girl was on the bed, on the walls, in the bathroom, on the mirrors. He inflicted many strong and deep cuts on her hands with a razor, threatened to kill her, tried to cut her throat and much more. Then they went to her, and on the way he simply threw her out of the car and disappeared. The girl with tears recalls this day, marveling at the fact that she remained alive. She absolutely did not believe that she would return home safe and sound. Now Katie could expect anything from this crazy guy.
After this incident, Kate still naively believed in the love of her rapist. She did not tell anyone about what had happened, but instead sat quietly at home, afraid to leave it. She did not tell anyone about the tragedy, because she was very afraid that the madman would rape and kill her again.
Katie Piper Acid Attack
However, the man did not calm down on this. After a couple of days, he wrote a huge letter to the girl, where he begged for forgiveness. In order to read the message on Facebook, Kate went to a cafe where there is Internet. There, Lynch called her, who began to question in detail about the appearance of the girl. She, in turn, did not suspect anything and described her appearance to the smallest detail. When she left the cafe, a man in a hood went towards her. In a couple of seconds, he spilled liquid from his cup onto the face of a poor girl. At first, Kate thought it was a cup of very hot coffee. She was worried that the strange stranger in the hood poured the contents of the mug on her. As it turned out later, it was the friend of the ex-boyfriend of the victim - Stefan Sylvester. Due to wild pain, Katie started screaming and was taken to the hospital. Doctors did not immediately understand why the girl’s face was doused. And the victim continued to hide everything, as she was very afraid of the crazy ex-boyfriend. And only then it became clear that it was poisonous sulfuric acid.
How to live on?
Parents of the victim were horrified by what happened to their beloved daughter. They were in panic and hysteria. Due to the tragedy, Katie had many problems, especially with her face. She stopped seeing with her left eye, stopped eating due to problems with the esophagus and much more. The girl was in a coma, after which she had to inject food into her throat through a catheter. Her ear, eyes, and neck were greatly affected by the terrible effects of acid.
Mother was so worried about her unfortunate daughter that she left her job in order to care for and feed Katie. In one of the interviews, my mother shared secrets about how the illness of her daughter proceeded. One day, when her daughter was in severe pain, she wrote a note to her mother, asking her to kill herself. This shocked Kate's mom.
Subsequently, the mother of the victim will often blame herself for what happened and that in childhood she did not warn about possible intimate problems and rarely spoke with her daughter on such topics. After the hospital, the girl for a long time lay at home under the complete control of her mother. Kate could not serve herself, eat, drink. She often sobbed, screamed from hopelessness, broke off at relatives.
Rehabilitation period
But after a couple of months of treatment, Kate could walk, communicate, go to shops, etc. The patient underwent a lot of plastic surgery to restore her face. In total, there were more than a hundred. When, after the first operation, the girl was put on a suit, it seemed to her as if she was being put in a bag with a zipper and going to be buried. The esophagus was a big problem, which, despite the operations, was still extremely narrow. Therefore, Kate could not calmly and normally eat, as everyone else does. And only at the age of 26 she sat for the first time after the tragedy at the festive table with her family and friends. During that time, while she was lying in the hospital unconscious, the girl lost almost half her weight, which is about 38 kilograms. Everyone was very concerned about the fate of the victim. However, experienced doctors were even able to restore the girl’s eyesight, but she still doesn’t see as well as she could. It was hard for her to breathe, and her breathing organs were supported by a special system. Throughout the course of treatment, Piper wore plastic masks, which is why many people on the street looked strange at the girl and were horrified by her appearance. But she did not lose heart and sincerely believed that her face would become the same as the rest.
Now the girl looks great. The only thing Kate is very sad about is that she will never be able to look like her mother again, because her face was deformed and created artificially. In order to remove burnt skin residues, experienced surgeons used the skin from the buttocks and special artificial material.
But despite the fact that this strong-willed girl passed, she says that she is infinitely happy in her life. She has a job that brings her pleasure. She has a wonderful husband and two wonderful children. TV presenter Katie Piper is sure that everything that happened to her is not an accident. Thanks to this, she understood a lot in life, achieved great success, gained love and work.
Literature
Katie Piper's most popular book, Beauty, talks about the events that happened to her. She dedicated it to her surgeon, who gave the heroine a second life. In addition, this was the first operation when particles of burnt skin from the face were completely removed at a time.
The main point of this book is that the internal beauty of a person is thousands of times more important than the external. The author wants to convey to readers that in no case, under any circumstances do not need to give up and give up. It is necessary on the contrary to boldly and stubbornly go forward to your dream, despite all the barriers and condemnations from the outside. The girl strongly recommends thinking about who to meet with and tie up her life, so that subsequently there are no troubles and surprises. The book is still relevant since such cases have recently been gaining popularity for some reason.
Katie Piper is a real hero who went through all the difficulties. She teaches people to believe in love, to trust their near and dear ones, to see inner beauty, to fight for their happiness. Largely thanks to parents who constantly supported their daughter and believed in her, she did not give up and continued to fight for her life.
