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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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