Katie Piper has spoken candidly about how her young daughter reacted when she first saw the scars left behind from the horrific acid attack that changed the star’s life forever.
The beloved TV presenter, who was targeted in March 2008, was left blind in one eye and underwent years of surgery to repair damage to her face, neck, chest and arms. Today, Katie is a proud mother to two daughters with her husband Richard Sutton – Belle, born in 2014, and Penelope, born in 2017.
Katie recalled that Belle began asking questions about her appearance at a very young age. “She asks about the scars and I explain: ‘Mummy got burnt.’ She’s recently started asking about it, which I thought was so early,” Katie once told The Sun’s Fabulous magazine.
She added that Belle has even joined her on hospital visits when she needed surgery. “Sometimes she’ll ask if it hurts and I tell her it used to, but not any more. When I go into hospital for operations on my nose she’ll come with me, and she has her own little doctor’s kit,” Katie explained.
The Loose Women star also revealed that she keeps pictures around the house showing her in bandages, making sure her children grow up without secrets about their mum’s past. “We’re very open about things, so it won’t be one big reveal one day,” she said.
Speaking to HuffPost UK, Katie described the tender moment her daughter first saw her scars in the bath. “My body has got quite a lot of scars so when she sees me she says: ‘Oh what’s happened? Are you okay?’ And I’ll be like: ‘No, it happened ages ago, I got burnt.’ And then she says: ‘I want to kiss it better,’ and kisses it better.”
