Dame Deborah James has announced she has been working on a clothing collection to benefit charity
(Picture: Deborah James/Instagram)When Deborah James was nine years old, she trained as a gymnast for up to 30 hours a week. “I learnt at that young age that your mind is sometimes more powerful than your body,” James wrote in a blog post, “that whilst you can control it, at times it may seem like it controls you like a rollercoaster you are not in charge of — but work with it and anything is possible.”
She later speculated that the resilience she learnt from training amd competing nationally had gone on to help her with her illness: “You have a mentality that you can never end on a bad one, so if you fall off the beam, you get back on and you land it.”
