Ellie Simmonds has revealed her birth mum first realised who she was when she watched the swimmer win Paralympic gold. The Strictly star began searching for her blood family last year.
Ellie, who was born with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, was put up for adoption at just 10 days old after medics told her mum the tot would be ridiculed and seen as "evil" and "stupid".
Despite being devastated to find out that her mum gave her away, it didn't stop her from wanting to find her biological mother, the Mirror reports. The star, 28, managed to track down her long-lost relative and the pair were reunited for the first time in nearly three decades.
