Katie Piper
Katie Piper

I've come to the conclusion that we're all responsible for our own happiness and the happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. I'm a big believer in positive thinking.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

My biggest hope for the future is that we're successful in delivering the treatment to people through the charity and that burns just become something that happens in people's lives but doesn't make them a misfit in society and exclude them and stop all their dreams and ambitions.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

I still have difficult days when I lose hours to anxiety, feeling my throat swell and my mind race with paranoid thoughts. But - thanks in part to ongoing therapy - they're happening less and less.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

I don't want to be an ambassador for too many charities, because it's a far stronger message to be a person with a disfigurement going about their life doing everyday things.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

I was standing in the street with people walking past me and I could feel my face evaporating. I thought I was on fire as the acid ate at my skin.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

When you're on you're way into work, hit up the WhatsApp, find out what people want, and bring in a real coffee for everyone. Trust me when I say they will all really appreciate it.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

I'm self-sufficient, but it's brilliant to have people in your life that you love, who love you and are important to you.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

My recovery has been backwards, forwards, up and down - and still is.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

But I like a challenge, anything I can't do it inspires me to learn it.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

My dad and sister are vegetarian and I was brought up as one, but I ate a bit of fish and meat. After the attack my oesophagus melted and I had to have plastic stents put into my throat to rebuild it, so I couldn't swallow and I was fed via a high-calorie drip through my stomach.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

What we put in our bodies can make us feel depressed or anxious, and it's the same for fitness, I think it all joins up in this big circle.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

People always go on about me being an inspiration, which is nice. But it's an unrealistic pedestal to be put on. There are other people out there who have had things happen to them, not just me.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

There was a time when I'd resigned myself to never having my own family, so to fall pregnant with Belle was overwhelming.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

The world is more competitive and social media drives this. It's woman against woman when it comes to appearance, possessions and friendship circles.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

There are so many things that can happen to us in life where you think, 'I can't cope. I can't deal with it,' but you probably can.

Katie Piper
Katie Piper

Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I'd scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.