Katie Piper

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Katie Piper

Kate Elizabeth Piper (called Katie Piper; born October 1983 in Andover , England ) is a British presenter and former model . As a victim of an acid attack in 2008, she was the subject of worldwide reports.

Life

Katie Piper was born in 1983 in Hampshire to Diane and David Piper. She has a younger sister and an older brother. As a child, she attended Harrow Way School . She later worked as a presenter on English television and as a model for various newspapers. Her mother works as a teacher assistant in an English elementary school and after the attack on her daughter actively campaigned for her to get a job at the same school. David Piper is a businessman. Katie Piper has a daughter.

Relationship with Lynch and the Acid Attack

Piper met Daniel Lynch through a personal ad on the Internet. The two started chatting and then became a couple. Lynch's behavior became more and more intrusive. She was beaten, raped, and detained by him one night after she refused to sleep with him. When Piper later resisted coming back to him, Lynch instigated his best friend, Stefan Sylvestre, to commit an assassination attempt with sulfuric acid , which he carried out on March 31, 2008. Piper later told the public that she felt her face dissolve. Immediately after the attack, Piper ran into a café, whose employees immediately alerted the ambulance. The acid disfigured Piper's face, neck, chest, upper arms, and wrists. The attack in her left eye also made her almost blind. In addition, she had severe effects on her respiratory system during her hospital stay as she swallowed acid as she screamed in pain. Piper had 110 operations and wore a protective mask for a long time to keep the skin hydrated and prevent blistering.

Condemnation of the perpetrator

Sylvestre and Lynch were both arrested shortly after Piper was assassinated. Lynch cited jealousy as the motive. “If I can't have it, then nobody gets it!” He is supposed to have said once. Lynch was sentenced to two life imprisonment (with a minimum of 16 years) and Sylvestre to a single life imprisonment (with a minimum of 12 years).

Appearance in public after the attack

Piper did not hesitate to present the public what was done to her and to make comparisons between the then pretty and now completely disfigured face. After the attack, she made appearances on the Australian program 60 Minutes, on British television on Live From Studio Five, Woman's Hour, BBC Breakfast and This Morning . On February 8, 2010, Katie Piper starred in the documentary Extraordinary People . The program was broadcast on RTL II .

Career after the attack

After her face was disfigured, Piper was no longer able to continue working as a model. At the end of 2009 she founded The Katie Piper Foundation, which actively supports fire and assassination victims such as herself. She also wrote a biography that was published in English in 2011. Furthermore, she was offered a two-year fixed-term contract as a presenter for a British television station.

At a public event in September 2011, she was not immediately recognized as the victim of an acid attack, as her wounds have healed so well that you can hardly see them at all with the help of make-up.

Since the beginning of 2014 Piper has been hosting the show Bodyshockers on the British television channel Channel 4 . There she deals with people who have made significant changes to their bodies and report on the effects.

Works

  • Beautiful: A beautiful girl. An evil man. One inspiring true story of courage. Ebury Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0091940768 (English).
  • From Mother to Daughter: The Things I'd Tell My Child. Quercus, 2018, ISBN 978-1787470613 (English).

Web links

Commons : Katie Piper  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Acid victim Katie Piper hardly recognizable after 110 operations - six years later the model has her beautiful face back, in: OK Magazine, January 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Piper, Katie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piper, Kate Elizabeth (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British presenter, model and acid victim
DATE OF BIRTH October 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Andover , England , UK