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Ellie Simmonds has left viewers 'astounded' as her new documentary aired on ITV. The gold medal-winning swimmer recorded her journey to reunite with her birth mother in the film after sharing how she'd been adopted when she was just 10 days old.
Ellie only shared the news publically last week ahead of the release of her documentary on Thursday night (July 6). During her sporting career, the five-time Paralympic champion has talked about her parents as her biggest supporters but never before revealed how the couple, who have four other children, adopted her as a baby.
However, she shared that when "questions started to bubble up" she decided to go in search of answers, beginning with photos and documents that her parents, of Aldridge, West Midlands, had kept for her. She said: "Until now, it’s never emotionally affected me, it never made me feel rejected or ask why do my birth parents not want me. I’ve been so focused on the future and never thought about it."
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During the documentary, titled Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family, viewers saw 28-year-old Ellie having to read some tough documents before connecting with her biological parent - whose identity Ellie is keeping private.
With the help of a specialist social worker, Ellie, who was named Eleanor at birth, first got hold of the files relating to her birth which confirmed that days after she was born, the hospital revealed Ellie had achondroplasia.
An information sheet given to her birth mother warned how her daughter would have a "large skull and depressed nasal bridge" and that children with her condition "tend to be muscular and acrobatic, which is perhaps the
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