Alison's Portrayal of Me As a Lies... She Doesn'tdeserve ; Artist Alison Lapper, Born Without Arms and Legs, has Told Bitterly How She Was Abandoned As a Child. Now Her Furious Mother Hits Back ...

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SHE was born with horrendous physical deformities and written off by medical staff as a 'cabbage' for whom a swift death would be merciful.

Then her mother abandoned her to a life in institutions where the treatment was at best careless and at worst callous.

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Alison's Portrayal of Me As a Lies... She Doesn'tdeserve ; Artist Alison Lapper, Born Without Arms and Legs, has Told Bitterly How She Was Abandoned As a Child. Now Her Furious Mother Hits Back ...

Yet Alison Lapper blossomed into a woman who today has an MBE for her services to art, is mother to five-year-old son Parys and is feted by the literary and artistic elite. And next month the 40- year-old's 'triumph over tragedy' a phrase Alison despises as patronising will be complete when a 16ft marble statue of her is unveiled in Trafalgar Square, London. She is depicted by sculptor Marc Quinn, naked and eig...

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