Popular American TV presenter Kate Elizabeth Piper experienced a real tragedy in her life - the betrayal of her beloved, who disfigured her face. She suffered a lot, but was able to overcome what at first seemed impossible, and became a happy wife and mother. Later, when this nightmare was behind, Kate wrote the book Beauty, the main idea of which was the statement that real beauty is inside a person, and that if a person has real life values, he will overcome everything.
Biography
Kate was born in the English city of Andover in 1983. From an early age, she understood that her appearance and figure allow her to dream about a modeling career. Moreover, she liked to be in the spotlight, she liked the attention of boys, she knew fashion and knew how to do makeup.
She talked with many people, she liked to know the details of their life. Perhaps that is why Piper became a journalist, she liked this work. Her profession expanded the circle of acquaintances even more, and one day she met Daniel Lynch - a martial artist, at first glance a very attentive and gentle man. Subsequently, it was he who injured the young girl.
Romantic relationship
Young people began to meet, and at the very beginning of the relationship everything was just fine: huge bouquets of flowers, soft toys, gifts. But one day, Katie saw how aggressively Lynch acted when someone did not hit him in the store - he literally exploded and wanted to hit an innocent man. For a martial artist, this was unacceptable. Then Kate crept in the first suspicion of Daniel’s insanity, but he was able to convince the girl with a sincere apology that this case was not typical for him.
Kate convinced herself that he would not act with her, and continued her relationship with Lynch. She did not know then that he had already been convicted for splashing boiling water on a person's face.
A little later, Piper and Lynch started a quarrel, and he just started to beat his girlfriend. Once he dragged her into a hotel room, raped, beat and cut his hands with a razor. At the same time, he threatened that if she even said a word to someone, he would "cut her throat with the same razor." After all this, Kate was forced to be treated in the hospital, but did not tell anyone about the beating, because by that time she was very afraid of Lynch.
He wrote her apologizing letters and wanted to continue the relationship, and once he just sent a man who splashed sulfuric acid in the girl’s face. She received a severe burn to her face and chest, her airways were damaged, and at first the pain was so severe that Kate wanted to die so as not to feel it.
She underwent more than forty operations, survived terrible minutes of suffering from pain, it was very difficult psychologically, because the doctors literally made her whole face again.
But she managed, and now helps people with similar problems in her charity.
