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Ellie Simmonds branded an ‘inspiration’ as documentary viewers divided over relationship with birth mum

Ellie Simmonds fronted a new documentary on ITV last night, where she was seen on a phone call with her birth mum

The hour-long show followed Ellie as she spoke to experts and parents of disabled children, after being given up by her birth mother for adoption after she was told she had dwarfism. The woman, whose identity has been protected, told Ellie: “We went to a geneticist and she was very abrupt, said: ‘There you go, that’s what your baby is going to look like.” I remember coming back thinking, I can’t cope with this.” Ellie met her birth mum as part of her first ITV documentary, Finding My Secret Family, in 2023.

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