Katie Piper reveals heartbreaking baby decision after surgery
Katie Piper has revealed that an emergency surgery has forced her to give up her desire to have a third child.
The 41-year-old presenter and activist suffered life-long injuries after an acid attack back in 2008.
Since then, the presenter has tirelessly fought to raise awareness about facial disfigurements and tell her story.
While filming her new TV show Locked Up, the Loose Women star spent time with a jailed mothers at New Orleans' Parish Prison. She explained that the experience made her want to try for a third baby with husband Richard Sutton after hearing the heartbreaking stories about prisoners who are missing their children.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Katie revealed: 'So many women missed their kids [in prison].
'It started to make me think, 'This is my last chance to have another baby, I'm going to be 40. And if I don't do it now, I never will.'
'I was turning 40 in the October so I said to my husband, 'If we want another baby, let's do it now,' and we started trying.'
However, Katie was then rushed into hospital for an emergency operation on her eye.
The campaigner told the publication: 'You can't be trying for a baby and also be having unexpected surgeries.
'So that scuppered that and we had a break. We tried again, but it just didn't happen.'
Katie considered IVF, but after enduring over 250 operations since the 2008 acid attack, she couldn't face more hospital appointments.
'My eye surgery made me realise I don't want to do IVF,' she explained. 'I'm done with medical things and hospitals. I didn't think it would be good for me.'
Katie recently revealed she suffered vile abuse from prisoners while filming the upcoming series, telling Radio Times: 'I go in with lived experience – as a woman, a mother, a daughter, a victim of crime. Some of my story is worn on my face.
'That was an advantage and meant the women probably trusted me, but some of them shouted stuff like, 'Hey lady, are you addicted to Botox?' or 'Slow down on the plastic surgery.' They didn't know what had happened to me.'
She added: 'We're all one bad day away from being locked up. You don't know what's going to happen to you in life and who's going to harm you – and how you're going to react when somebody harms you.'
The presenter's ex-boyfriend, martial arts expert Daniel Lynch, received a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum of 16 years for instructing Stefan Sylvestre to throw acid on her. More Trending
Sylvestre received a life sentence for the attack in 2009, and was told he would have to serve a minimum of six years.
He was released on licence in 2018, but was recalled to prison in 2022 after breaching his licence conditions.
Katie later released a documentary titled Katie Piper: My Beautiful Face in 2009.
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She also launched the Katie Piper Foundation, which helps other burns victims, for which she was awarded an OBE.
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