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Ella Dove

From TV host to Gucci model: meet four women breaking disability barriers

A collage image shows Paula Garfield of Deafinitely Theatre, giving a thumbs-up, disabled women actors of diverse ethnic backgrounds and impairments, and gardener Sue Kent, wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt showing her upper limb difference.

"Sharing our experiences is the way to prove what's possible", says award-winning garden designer and BBC TV presenter Sue Kent, alluding to the dreams she's achieved while having an upper limb difference that makes certain physical tasks challenging.

Sue is one of four women we spoke to who are helping to break down barriers in the representation of disabled people – along with two talent agency founders who helped model Ellie Goldstein to became the first person with Down Syndrome on a British Vogue cover and in a Gucci campaign; and the founder of a deaf-led theatre company making waves.

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