STRICTLY’S Paralympic champion, Ellie Simmonds, says “representation” on television can “change” lives.
The swimming champ and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Ellie Simmonds opened up about being stared at in the street, due to having dwarfism, but being on the show “has helped”.
Ellie said many who have dwarfism, face stares in the street “on a daily basis it happens even now but it is changing,” she told the Mirror, ” if I can create change people like myself in the streets don’t get the stares, the name calling, the abuse.
“If I could just change one person’s life that is so powerful,” Ellie says, adding she is so “proud” to not only represent the dwarfism community, but the “disabled community” as a whole.
Dancer Ellie is loving every minute of the show, and has fully immersed herself in the Strictly glam lifestyle, telling the publication: “At the start of the show I was like ‘I only want a few eyelashes’, now I’m loving every second, full lashes, tan!”
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