Making choices

Ellie Simmonds meets parents about to have a disabled child, and reflects on the future for herself...

- HANNAH DAVIES, TESS LAMACRAFT

ELLIE SIMMONDS: SHOULD I HAVE CHILDREN?
Tuesday, 9pm, ITV1 Factual

Former Paralympic swimming champion and TV presenter Ellie Simmonds was a newborn baby when her birth mother made a lifechanging decision.

'She was told that I had dwarfism but the way she was given that information was shocking,' explains Ellie. 'Days later, she gave me up for adoption.'