Loose Women star planning more surgery on face years after horrifying attack

Katie Piper, who was the victim of a horrifying acid attack in 2008, has tirelessly worked to raise awareness since the life-changing incident, and has even been awarded an OBE

Katie Piper plans on more surgeries this year (
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Loose Women star Katie Piper revealed she’s planning on having more surgery on her face 16 years after a horrifying attack.The TV presenter and philanthropist was the victim of a vile acid attack in 2008, which left her blind in one eye and severely burned, after her abusive ex-boyfriend hired a man to throw acid in her face following the breakdown of their relationship. Since the brutal assault, Katie has undergone more than 400 surgeries, including painful skin grafts, and in November last year, she underwent an operation to sew her eyelid shut in order to save her damaged eye.

Katie, 40, has bravely documented her journey on social media, and launched The Katie Piper Foundation helping burns victims, which eventually led to her being awarded an OBE in 2022. The Loose Women panellist, who is preparing for the launch of her very own breakfast show on ITV, has now revealed she’s planning on more operations this year to deal with the scar tissue from the burns on her face.

Katie has bravely documented her journey (
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She survived against the odds, and has since launched a TV career (

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Speaking to OK!, Katie explained that her injuries are “all connected with my ears, nose and throat, as well as my eyes,” and after having the operation to sew her eyelid shut in November to save her eye, she’s feeling lucky to be a survivor. “It’s a cliché, but I always meet people who are worse off than me. It’s not something I feel bad about because I have lived with this for over 15 years, and I am very lucky and grateful to the NHS for all the incredible treatments I have endured,” Katie sha

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The TV presenter, who suffered sexual abuse during her relationship with her ex-boyfriend, is now happily married to carpenter Richard Sutton, and the couple share two daughters – Belle, 10, and six-year-old Penelope. However, she confessed that while the operations are necessary to her recovery, she still finds them triggering, but hopes they’ll teach a valuable lesson to her daughters. “You have to be resilient and robust in life, and that’s what I try to teach my kids. I like to think of myself as always remaining tough, simply because there will always be bad things out there and we have to learn to deal with them,” she bravely explained.

Katie has faced cruel criticism from online trolls while sharing the realities of her recovery, and after posting a video explaining her eye operation on TikTok, she took aim at her haters. “Don’t send me insults, don’t troll me, because you never know what could happen to you in life. You could just be living your life and something like what happened to me could happen to you. So remember that expression: be kind,” she fired.