The TV presenter shared the news on Instagram, saying it follows “many years of battling” with her health.
She wrote:
“I’ve reached the end of [the] road somewhat, and the decision has been made to try a prosthetic eye shell.”
The former model has had hundreds of surgeries to repair damage to her face and eyesight following an attack on the orders of her ex-boyfriend, which took place when she was 24 years old.
Who is Katie Piper? Katie Piper age
Kate Elizabeth Sutton OBE (née Piper; born 12 October 1983) is an English writer, activist, television presenter and model from Andover, Hampshire.
Piper subsequently began a career in modelling, taking part in various fashion, glamour and promotional photoshoots, including modelling for national newspapers. She also began work as a promotional model: appearing and carrying out publicity duties at live events, such as working as a ring-card girl at martial arts fixtures.
Piper also conducted a career as a digital television presenter, working principally on web-TV shows and features, and on small digital television channels, primarily in the shopping and live-chat fields. As her career began to develop, Piper moved away from her family home in Hampshire, and began to live with friends in a flat in Golders Green, North London.
Katie Piper Life & Education
Piper was born in Andover, Hampshire, to David and Diane Piper and attended Harrow Way School and Portway Junior School as a child. She has an elder brother, Paul and a younger sister, Suzy.
After leaving school, Piper trained as a beautician, aiming to build on her fondness for fashion and beauty, and to follow in the footsteps of her father, who worked as a barber.
Piper, a mother of two, set up her own foundation aimed at making it easier to live with burns and scars
She has previously said that society needs to change for people with facial disfigurements to feel accepted.
In 2009, she made a Channel 4 documentary about her experience called Katie: My Beautiful Face.
She was made an OBE in 2021 in honour of her services to charity and victims of burns and other disfigurement injuries.