Brave Katie Piper has opened up as she nears her 400th operation – saying it doesn't bother her as she just feels lucky to be alive.
The model is about to hit the milestone after 12 years of having ops following her 2008 attack. But she says her “heart never sinks” when told she has to have another op. “You can look at it that way, or you can say, it's extraordinary to be alive, because women who are acid attacked in other countries actually die,” she says. “They don't have the NHS, and they don't have the sophisticated medicine we have here.
So I think, my heart would never sink, life is a gift that I'm still here.” The star, who has recently teamed up with the Co-op for a new campaign (MUST), is recovering from her latest op last month.
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