She is the subject of the sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was displayed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square from September 2005 until late 2007.

[6] She then attended the Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People, in Banstead, Surrey until the age of 19, where she learned to drive.

[1] Lapper uses photography, digital imaging, and painting to, as she says, question physical normality and beauty, using herself as a subject.

[1] One particular influence is the sculpture Venus de Milo, due to the physical similarities between the idealised classical female statue and Lapper's own body.

Lapper and her son featured on the BBC television documentary Child of Our Time.

[13] Lapper had a son, Parys, with whom she was pregnant when posing for the Marc Quinn sculpture.

His mother afterwards said that he had been bullied at school over her disability, which led to his being sectioned for mental health problems at the age of 17.