Paralympian and Strictly Come Dancing star Ellie Simmonds has revealed for the first time that she was adopted as a baby - and in a new documentary, she tracks down her birth mum
Ellie Simmonds has revealed for the first time that she was adopted as a baby, and features in a new documentary where she tracks down her birth mum.
Ellie uncovers a heartbreaking history, including copies of medical records which told her birth mother that she would need to be prepared for being stared at and laughed at as a child, that some people might view her as "evil and stupid", and that people with her condition may end up being involved in the circus or theatre because of her muscular build.
However, she decides to continue looking and hears a moving story from the daughter of the woman who fostered her when she was 10 days old up to three months old, who sadly died last year and hadn't contacted Ellie in case she didn't know she was adopted. Ellie is in tears at not getting the chance to meet her foster mum and says: "What got me was the fact she knew. She was watching me on TV and knew it was me. I left it too late."
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