Stef Reid is married to another incredible Paralympian, who was left paralysed in a freak ice skating star.
The Dancing on Ice star is being cheered on from the sidelines by Canadian wheelchair racing athlete Brent Lakatos.
Having had a horrific accident on the ice as a young child, Brent certainly knows all about the dangers of skating but is incredibly proud of his wife's achievements on the ITV show.
Brent was just six-years-old when he fell over while playing ice hockey - with the impact causing a blood clot to form on his spine, which led to paralysis.
According to Stef, who lost her right foot after a horrific boat accident when she was 16, her husband was "lucky to survive".
"Brent uses a wheelchair, his disability is obvious whereas if I’m wearing trousers you probably can’t tell," Stef told The Mirror last month, explaining how they face discrimination.
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"When we go out to a restaurant there have been occasions when Brent made the booking yet the bill comes to me. It’s almost this weird assumption that someone with a disability can’t handle a bill.
"Then one of my favourite moments was I was in a grocery store and I was wearing shorts and a mum said to her five-year-old daughter, ‘Don’t stare, sweetie, she has a poorly leg’.
"I listened to see what the girl would say, and she thought and said, ‘No she doesn’t, she has a robot leg,’ and carried on. How brilliant."
Having both had horrifying accidents as kids that turned their world's upside down, both Stef and Brent both have a similar perspective to life and want to live it to the full.
The couple both showed incredible determination to recover from their injuries and used sport as an outlet.
Stef won a bronze in the women's 200m T44 event for Canada at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, then switched allegiances to Team GB and won silver medals in London 2012 and Rio 2016 in the Long Jump F44.
While Brent, who started off in wheelchair basketball, has won a staggering 11 medals at three Paralympic Games as a T53 wheelchair racer, including a gold in the 100m at Rio 2016.
The 41-year-old Canadian also won the London Marathon in 2020 with an incredible time of 1:36:04.
Brent, who lives in the UK with Stef, must find it hard watching his wife skate on the ice, particularly considering she had a nasty fall early on in the training process.
When Stef broke the news she was taking part in Dancing on Ice, she said: "He did kind of roll his eyes and say, ‘Stefanie, you’re nuts’, but he kind of thought that anyway."
Brent added: "But that’s also why I fell in love with you because you’re ridiculous and think you can do anything – good on you, go for it."
If watching Stef plunge was terrifying, he hasn’t shown her his nerves yet and has been a source of constant support.
"He watches all my lifts. He’ll tell me straight, and he said, ‘You did really well’. He said I skate better than he thought I would," she laughed.
As for Stef, she lost her foot aged 15 when she came flying off an inflatable ring that was being pulled by a boat on the lake in Canada.
There was a miscommunication between the driver and spotter so they didn't see her and Stef decided to dive down into the water to save herself.
"I was underwater for what felt like a long time and when I finally reached the surface, gasping for breath, I couldn’t feel any pain," she told The Mirror in 2016.
"My first thought was, 'That was lucky. I’m not going to tell my mum that happened!' Then I noticed the water around me was red. Everyone on the boat was freaking out and I knew something was wrong.
"Although I couldn’t see my injuries below the water, the propeller had caught me across my right leg, my glutes and lower back. I didn’t know it, but it had almost cut me in half.
"What I did know was there was way too much blood. I had no feeling in my right foot and I thought I was going to die."
*Dancing on Ice airs tonight on ITV at 6pm
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