Katie Piper (Pic: Wire)

Model and television presenter Katie Piper – partially blinded in an acid attack arranged by a spurned ex-boyfriend – has had her sight restored with stem cell surgery.

Katie, 29, suffered third degree burns and had to have her face reconstructed after the attack in 2008, when her spurned ex-boyfriend, Daniel Lynch, 35, arranged for Stefan Sylvestre, 22, to throw acid in her face.

The incident left her scarred for life and damaged her left eye.

But her sight has now been restored thanks to doctors at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, who used eye tissue from the cornea of an anonymous male donor.

The cells then grew and three were later were stitched into her damaged eye.

Katie said: “It has been an amazing feeling.

“It wasn’t like I took the bandage off and my sight came back like that, it happened gradually.

“But after three weeks I started to see results. I’d seen a lot of progress with my scars, but my sight was the one injury I’d say to myself was permanent and least expected to change.

“I do feel like I’m winning.”

The full story of her regaining her sight will be revealed in a Channel 4 documentary tomorrow night.

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Katie Piper getting sight back after stem cell surgery following acid attack