Meanwhile Piper 's parents were called by the police to tell them what had happened . `` I can remember going ` not her face , please not her face ' , '' Piper 's mother Diane wrote on The Katie Piper Foundation web site . `` I knew if anything happened to her face as far as she was concerned it would be the end of everything . '' Piper spent nearly two months in hospital and was placed in an induced coma for 10 days . The attack also severely damaged Piper 's throat and she was forced to be fed through a tube in her stomach . Today , Piper now wears a special plastic pressure mask for 23 hours a day , in an effort to flatten her scars . `` You can see looking at me that it physically changed my appearance , but it goes a lot deeper than that . '' `` It changed my life as I know it -- it changed my career , it changed my relationships with people . Lynch was found guilty of inciting the acid attack in October 2008 and subsequently convicted on the rape charge in
London , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Katie Piper had everything going for her -- a blossoming career , a wonderful life and a beautiful face . But that all changed after a horrific acid attack in March 2008 destroyed everything as she knew it . The young model and television presenter , who was 24 years old at the time , was leaving her apartment in a London suburb when she was attacked by a stranger waiting for her with a cup of sulfuric acid . Stefan Sylvestre threw the cup of corrosive liquid on Piper , burning the skin on her face , neck , chest and hands . She was also left blinded in one eye . Sylvestre was asked by Piper 's former boyfriend , Danny Lynch , to throw the acid on her face because she ended their short relationship . To make matters worse , two days before the attack , Piper was raped by Lynch in a London hotel room after ending the partnership . `` It was n't a random attack and there was a motive if you like , '' Piper told CNN 's Becky Anderson on Connect the World .