Everything changed the moment the acid hit her face, and she thought she might never see another sunrise.

Everything changed the moment the acid hit her face, and she thought she might never see another sunrise.

When Katie Piper was a 24-year-old model and TV hopeful in London, she was betrayed by someone she trusted. In March 2008 her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Lynch, arranged for his accomplice, Stefan Sylvestre, to throw sulphuric acid in her face, leaving her with catastrophic burns and costing her sight in one eye.



The attack was only the beginning of a long and excruciating journey. Katie spent weeks in an induced coma, faced hundreds of reconstructive surgeries, and endured the kind of pain most people cannot imagine. Her face was rebuilt in pioneering operations, and she wore a compression mask nearly day and night while her body fought to heal.

But instead of letting it destroy her, Katie turned her trauma into purpose. She waived her right to anonymity, stepped into the public eye, and in 2009 released the documentary Katie: My Beautiful Face to tell her story and raise awareness for survivors of burns and disfigurement.

Today, Katie is a respected TV presenter, author, motivational speaker, and the founder of the Katie Piper Foundation — a charity dedicated to helping people living with scarring, burns and the invisible wounds that come afterwards. She has shown that recovery is possible, even when hope seems lost.

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