Psychologies

Katie Piper “The mind is amazing. We can all rebuild after trauma; bad relationship, divorce or redundancy”

Whatever you do, don’t call Katie Piper inspirational; she’s too humble for that – despite having survived rape, an acid attack, PTSD and too many operations to count to become an accomplished businesswoman, author, TV presenter, podcaster and founder of a charity for burn victims.

The night before our Psychologies photo shoot, I watched her first documentary, Katie: My Beautiful Face. Filmed more than a decade ago, while she was recovering from the acid attack that severely burned her face and blinded her in one eye, Katie struggled to leave the house, checked windows to make sure they were locked and wouldn’t answer the front door. The former model had gone from a confident young woman

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