Alison Lapper Reflects on Grief

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Alison Lapper

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Artist Alison Lapper on the grief of losing her only child

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Alison Lapper was born with a condition called phocomelia, meaning she has no arms and shortened legs.

She posed naked and pregnant for a sculpture in Trafalgar Square for two years in 2005 .

The artist has faced constant scrutiny about her artwork and personal life.

She has now opened up about the grief of losing her son, Parys , and the love she never received from her mother.

Alison lived at a residential school for children with complex physical disabilities.

Her mother had a breakdown after she was born.

Alison watched an interview her mother had recorded in 2022 , shortly before she died.

For the first five years after her son’s death, Alison says she “didn’t want to be here” As a nation, we are so “clammed up” about death, illness and mental health, says Alison .

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