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Katie Piper likens getting old to grieving the death of a loved one after seeing the ‘true evil in mankind’


Presenter and campaigner Katie Piper experienced something akin to rapid ageing, when she was attacked with acid in her early 20s.

In an interview at Hay Festival in Wales last weekend, Katie Piper has compared the process of ageing to a bereavement: shocking, but not surprising. The star – back with her Katie Piper’s Weekend Escape today (June 8) – spent a lot of time thinking she should have taken revenge on her attacker. The concept of the male gaze views and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of masculine, heterosexual subjects.

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