Acid Attack Survivor Katie Piper: ‘I Have Learned To Love My Face Again’
Nov. 17 2011, Published 3:00 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
Katie Piper, a British beauty who was severely disfigured in an acid attack from an ex-boyfriend in March 2008, has released excerpts of the diary she's kept throughout her brave and remarkable recovery, which has encompassed 112 operations and extensive skin grafts.
The diary details the odyssey Piper has been through, going from a runway model to the famous victim of a cruel and unusual attack, prior to her incredible comeback — and Breaking Celebrity News has her story.
Piper wrote in May 2008, just two months after the attack, that her psychologist recommended she keep a picture diary to chart her progress through the months and years ahead.
"Maybe she hoped that by doing that, the improvements -- however small -- would spur me on," Piper wrote.
A December 2008 passage describes the various health issues Piper was having to cope with in the wake of the horrific acid onslaught, as she was down to 77 pounds because of an inability to swallow food after she ingested acid in the attack, burning her esophagus.
"My hair started to fall out through malnutrition, my periods stopped and I was fitting into children’s clothes. I had to wear a special rigid pl