Katie Piper wanted to be a model or on television.
It was a huge dream for a little girl who growing up in a small UK village.
Her life with dad David, mum Diane and her two siblings was “pretty ordinary”.
“She was wilful, headstrong, very independent and made friends wherever she went,” Diane says.
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