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Glamour model attacked in street
Ms Harte has appeared in several tabloid papers
A pregnant glamour model could be left permanently scarred after being attacked by a knifeman in south London.
Angel Harte, 26, was with her two young daughters in Ringford Road, Wandsworth, when she was attacked on Christmas Eve.
A man in motorcycle leathers and helmet slashed her with a knife and punched her in the stomach before making off.
Ms Harte, who lives nearby, suffered a three-inch cut to her cheek and underwent reconstructive surgery at St George's Hospital in Tooting.
She needed 16 stitches in her cheek and the knife missed her right eye by millimetres.
Ms Harte believes she was deliberately picked out by someone intent on ruining her looks and career.
I thought I was going to die
Angel Harte
She was pushing a buggy full of presents home from Christmas shopping when she was hit on the side of the head by what she thinks was an iron bar.
A man repeatedly punched her and slashed her face with the knife and hacked off some of her hair.
Ms Harte said he continued trying to stab her as she tried to shield her two-year-old daughter Summer.
'I think primarily he was trying to ruin my looks but he could have killed my baby or the baby that's inside me,' she said.
'My right eye was nearly poked out. I also got a black eye and he hit me in the jaw and it's swollen up.
'I'm trained in martial arts but I couldn't do anything because he had a motorcycle helmet and a crow bar and a knife.
'Dreadful, violent attack'
'Afterwards, it seemed like a really long time, and I was lying on the floor I couldn't see because of the blood. I thought I was going to die.'
Her older daughter Amber alerted neighbours who called an ambulance.
Neither of the children were hurt and Ms Harte said her unborn child was 'fine'.
Pc Prion Gwyn, from Wandsworth police, said: 'This was a dreadful, violent attack on a defenceless woman that may have left her permanently scarred.'
He added police were keeping an 'open mind' as to the motive and are trying to trace any witnesses.
Glamour model attacked in street
Ms Harte has appeared in several tabloid papers
A pregnant glamour model could be left permanently scarred after being attacked by a knifeman in south London.
Angel Harte, 26, was with her two young daughters in Ringford Road, Wandsworth, when she was attacked on Christmas Eve.
A man in motorcycle leathers and helmet slashed her with a knife and punched her in the stomach before making off.
Ms Harte, who lives nearby, suffered a three-inch cut to her cheek and underwent reconstructive surgery at St George's Hospital in Tooting.
She needed 16 stitches in her cheek and the knife missed her right eye by millimetres.
Ms Harte believes she was deliberately picked out by someone intent on ruining her looks and career.
I thought I was going to die
Angel Harte
She was pushing a buggy full of presents home from Christmas shopping when she was hit on the side of the head by what she thinks was an iron bar.
A man repeatedly punched her and slashed her face with the knife and hacked off some of her hair.
Ms Harte said he continued trying to stab her as she tried to shield her two-year-old daughter Summer.
'I think primarily he was trying to ruin my looks but he could have killed my baby or the baby that's inside me,' she said.
'My right eye was nearly poked out. I also got a black eye and he hit me in the jaw and it's swollen up.
'I'm trained in martial arts but I couldn't do anything because he had a motorcycle helmet and a crow bar and a knife.
'Dreadful, violent attack'
'Afterwards, it seemed like a really long time, and I was lying on the floor I couldn't see because of the blood. I thought I was going to die.'
Her older daughter Amber alerted neighbours who called an ambulance.
Neither of the children were hurt and Ms Harte said her unborn child was 'fine'.
Pc Prion Gwyn, from Wandsworth police, said: 'This was a dreadful, violent attack on a defenceless woman that may have left her permanently scarred.'
He added police were keeping an 'open mind' as to the motive and are trying to trace any witnesses.
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