Katie Piper reveals she’s undergone surgical procedure on her left eye

Katie Piper has revealed she’s undergone surgical procedure to scale back the chance of ‘shedding her left eye’ in a candid Instagram put up shared on Wednesday.

The presenter, 40, shared a gallery of snaps displaying her eye after the process, whereas admitting she nonetheless finds operations ‘mentally onerous’ following her acid assault ordeal.

Katie suffered main accidents and blindness in a single eye after she was attacked with acid by her ex-boyfriend Daniel Lynch and confederate Stefan Sylvestre in 2008.

In the wake of her ordeal, she has tirelessly campaigned to maintain the subject of such assaults within the forefront of the minds of the general public and officers since her horrific expertise, and has since arrange The Katie Piper Foundation.

In her put up, Katie defined she’d obtained tarsorrhaphy to her left eye, which may ‘assist the cornea heal or to guard the cornea throughout a brief interval of publicity or illness.’

Posting a prolonged caption, Katie added that it is hoped the surgical procedure will ‘protect her eye,’ and the choice to have the operation stemmed from ‘perform over aesthetics.’

Katie wrote: ‘This is me! (For now). On Tuesday I had a deliberate operation, a Tarsorrhaphy to my left eye.

‘Tarsorrhaphy is the becoming a member of of half or the entire higher and decrease eyelids in order to partially or utterly shut the attention. 

‘Temporary tarsorrhaphies are used to assist the cornea heal or to guard the cornea throughout a brief interval of publicity or illness. I’ve additionally had scar tissue operated on on my proper eye, in order that may also be barely swollen.

‘I wished to place this right here for a number of causes:

‘Firstly to coach that residing with the form of injures I’ve means issues will change by means of out your life and typically issues go backwards. There is not actually an finish level and a part of this sort of restoration is acceptance of that. 

‘Secondly with a disfigurement surgical selections must be primarily based round perform not aesthetics. In my case I’m making an attempt to protect the attention, keep away from perforation and loosing my eye utterly.

‘Also simply because one thing is on view completely it would not give individuals the appropriate to continually remark in your look – you by no means know what is going on on in somebody’s life.

‘Also, if this helps anybody else…. sure I do typically discover it onerous. I’m comfortable with wanting totally different to everybody else however operations can typically take me again to reminiscences of how this all began and that is onerous mentally.

‘I all the time assume I’m extremely fortunate with this house right here on IG. I really feel like I’ve an clever, fascinating and sort following. 

‘So I do know most of one can find this replace helpful and possibly have had your individual comparable journeys of medical or psychological well being recoveries, however for the few that may ship msgs or go away unfavorable feedback (I’ve heard all of them earlier than, nothing new) then this rationalization/ training is for you.

‘I’m nonetheless the identical particular person. I’ve simply had totally different path in life to most and that is okay. For most half I dwell a satisfying, privileged and really joyful life. For that I’m extraordinarily grateful for. But as I get well I’m asking that you just please do not troll me.

‘Thank you to my eye surgeon Mr Joshi for caring for my eyelids all these years. I’m so grateful to him and his staff for care, compassion and ability.’

Katie’s ex Daniel was given a life sentence with a minimal time period of 16 years for the violence inflicted on Katie when she was simply 24 years previous.

In September, it emerged Daniel could possibly be launched from jail after finishing his minimal time period of 16 years.

Daniel obtained a life sentence with a minimal time period of 16 years after being convicted of rape, GBH and ABH at Wood Green Crown Court in 2009.

His co-conspirator, Stefan, who threw the acid at Katie, admitted GBH and was given a life sentence with a minimal time period of six years.

He was launched in 2018 however was recalled to jail for breaching his licence circumstances. Police have since mentioned they imagine he has fled the nation.

Passing sentence in opposition to the pair, Judge Nicholas Browne QC mentioned: ‘(The sufferer) had a face of pure magnificence. You, Danny Lynch and Stefan Sylvestre, symbolize the face of pure evil. The info of this case are chilling and stunning.

‘You deliberate after which executed an act of pure, calculated and deliberate evil.

‘You determined to wreck the sufferer’s life by thrusting a full container of sulphuric acid straight into her face from point- clean vary.’

Katie was attacked in Golders Green, north London, in 2008.

She had dated Daniel briefly earlier than the steroid-fuelled martial arts fan, who had a earlier conviction for pouring boiling water over a person, grew to become obsessively jealous.

Model and TV presenter Katie needed to put on a masks after the assault and wanted 400 operations to deal with her extreme burns in a protracted and painstaking course of which included pioneering surgical procedure which utterly eliminated the broken pores and skin from her face and changed it with a substitute.