'BEING STREETWISE IS IMPORTANT'

TV's Katie Piper opens up about equipping her daughters for the real world, knowing your worth and meeting female prisoners

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Locked up in a Louisiana jail, Katie Piper had an epiphany - she wanted another baby. The TV presenter was spending a month with female killers in America’s Orleans Parish Prison to find out how they ended up there. Away from her daughters, Belle, 11, and Penelope, seven, and listening to the prisoners who were missing seeing their own children grow up, Katie decided the time was right.

"So many women missed their kids," explains Katie. "It started to make me think, 'This is my last chance to have another baby, I’m going to be 40. And if I don’t do it now, I never will.'"

Katie flew home and spoke to husband Richard Sutton. "I was turning 40 in the October," says Katie. "So I said to my husband, 'If we want another baby, let's do it now,' and we started trying."