Strictly star Ellie Simmonds reunited with delivery mum after being adopted as child

Strictly star Ellie Simmonds has been reunited along with her delivery mom after revealing how she was adopted when simply three months previous.

The Paralympian swimmer final 12 months launched into a seek for her blood household after discovering out that she had been put up for adoption when she was 10 days previous.

Ellie says was devastated to find that her mum wished she had died at delivery after medics informed her that she can be ridiculed and seen as “evil” and “stupid”.

But it didn’t cease Ellie, 28, who was born with achondroplasia, the commonest type of dwarfism, from wanting to search out her.

The Mirror studies that after an emotional five-hour first assembly, the pair are nonetheless in contact and rebuilding their relationship.

“Until now, it’s never emotionally affected me, it never made me feel rejected or ask why do my birth parents not want me,” she says in a brand new ITV documentary.

“I’ve been so focussed on the future and never thought about it.”

Ellie, who gained 5 Paralympic gold medals, has talked about her mother and father as her largest supporters however by no means earlier than revealed how the couple, who’ve 4 different youngsters, adopted her.

But when “questions started to bubble up” she determined to go seeking solutions, starting with pictures and paperwork that her mother and father had stored for her.

“One of the reasons for being given up for adoption is dwarfism and maybe it can be a factor of why my personality is like it is, because of that rejection at the start,” she stated.

With the assistance of a specialist social employee, Ellie first received maintain of the information referring to her delivery.

They revealed that days after she was born the hospital confirmed Ellie had achondroplasia.

An info sheet given to her delivery mom stated that youngsters along with her situation “tend to be muscular and acrobatic, which is perhaps the reason for them traditionally being involved in the circus and other forms of theatre”.

The kind added: “Children have to deal with being stared at and laughed at by other children. Indeed, there are those with normal height who equate short stature with evil and stupidity.”

In one other blow, a social employee report described how her mom “feels very guilty regarding Eleanor’s disability and wishes she had an abortion, or that Eleanor had died”.

Shocked, Ellie almost known as off the search, however getting in contact with the household of her foster carer who taken care of her from two weeks to a few months previous satisfied her to hold on.

Ellie, who final 12 months competed in BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing with companion Nikita Kuzmin, was given particulars for her delivery mom, and the pair exchanged letters.

Her mom wrote: “Your father and I separated before I realised I was expecting you. Unfortunately it was very sad and traumatic in my life and I struggled with my mental health.

“I’ve suffered with guilt and self-hatred for not being strong enough to cope.

“I cannot express the happiness I feel to know your parents and siblings have provided you with such a loving environment, that you’re so happy. You’ve achieved so much.”

Finally, mom and daughter met in a resort and spent 5 hours collectively.

Ellie, who has determined to guard her id, says: “It was amazing. I kept looking at her and thinking, ‘Wow that’s my mum’. I felt like her face was just like mine. What touched my heart was she said she thinks about me every day, and she still sees me as her daughter.”

Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family, ITV1, Thursday, July 6, 9pm.