Acid attack robbed Katie Piper of chance to have third baby
The TV star, 41, was trying for a third child with husband Richard Sutton in 2023. But she needed an emergency op on her blind left eye and doctors advised any pregnancy would have to wait.
Katie, mum to Belle, 11, and Penelope, seven, has made a documentary about female prisoners in Louisiana.
She told today's Notebook magazine: 'So many women missed their kids. 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 said to my husband, 'If we want another baby, let's do it now,' and we started trying.'
Katie lives with effects of the 2008 acid attack every day. Daniel Lynch, jailed for life with a minimum of 16 years for raping her and arranging the attack, has a parole hearing in June. Katie said: '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 didn't happen.'
Katie, who has had 400 operations for her injuries, rejected IVF, unable to face more 'medical things and hospitals'. To ease her pain, she began volunteering at a dog rescue centre, which led her to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home where she met For the Love of Dogs presenter Alison Hammond.
'We got our dog from Battersea. Alison helped me pick the right dog for us – a calm female.' The cockapoo cross pup, which they named Sugar, has completed their family.
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