Ellie Simmonds' emotional moment she reunites with her birth mother
Paralympic champion and Strictly star has been described as an 'inspiration' after she bravely made the decision to track down her birth mum who gave her up for adoption. And the emotional moment she met her mum for the first time has been aired on television, as part of a new documentary.
Speaking of the moment she saw her mum for the first time, Eillie said: "We have the same sense of humour. I kept looking at her and thinking wow, that's my mum. She thinks about me every day and that got me. She always sees me as a daughter."Ellie continued: “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.
In the documentary she also spends time with families who adopted disabled children and hears deeply personal stories from disabled people who tried to find their birth parents, only to be rejected again. The programme also highlighted the pioneering work of social services teams around the UK and explore barriers on both sides of the adoptive process, both social and institutional to ask if they are perpetuating an unfounded stigma around having disabled children.
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