Ellie Simmonds just learned an incredibly difficult lesson the hardest way possible.
In upcoming ITV documentary Finding My Secret Family, she discusses being given up by her struggling mum at ten days old, and eventually being adopted by a wonderful family who ensured she never saw her dwarfism as something that could hold her back. Spoiler alert: it certainly hasn’t.
But she’d never wanted to ask why her birth mother decided she couldn’t raise her, until now.
