Paralympian Ellie Simmonds has revealed for the first time that she was adopted when she was three months old but has now been reunited with her birth mother.
The gold medal-winning swimmer last year embarked on a search for her blood family after finding out she had been put up for adoption at 10 days old.
She was devastated to discover her mum wished she had died at birth after medics told her Ellie would be ridiculed and seen as “evil” and “stupid”.
