Strictly star explores the emotional decision of starting a family in new ITV documentary

Olympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds is acceptable to research the imaginable of starting a household successful her upcoming documentary, which volition spot the prima question if she should person children.

Ellie Simmonds, the awe-inspiring athlete, is acceptable to instrumentality ITV viewers heavy into her idiosyncratic deliberations connected whether to person children.

The 30-year-old Paralympic medallist grapples with the anticipation of her kids inheriting her disablement and wonders if she should go a mother.

In the eye-opening documentary, Ellie meets assorted aesculapian experts aiding families done this analyzable process, including doctors, geneticists, cardiologists, midwives and counsellors.

Part of the statement for the documentary reads: "In this revealing documentary, Ellie fearlessly confronts the often hard and emotionally fraught decisions she would, and expectant parents do, look erstwhile they are told that their kid whitethorn beryllium calved with a disability. Asking the questions to assistance aboriginal parents navigate this precise affectional travel and what they would bash if faced with these life-changing decisions."

Yet, astatine its core, the movie traces Ellie's intimate quest arsenic she ponders if she should bring children into the world and imagines what they would beryllium like—not conscionable reflecting societal views but dwelling connected her ain concerns, aspirations, and her staunch content successful equality for disabled individuals, reports Wales Online.

Opening up astir the profoundly idiosyncratic quality of the film, Ellie said: "Now having the knowing of what my commencement parent and truthful galore others experienced 30 years agone erstwhile it came to disablement and pregnancy, I privation to spot however things person changed for parents today.

"I besides privation to situation immoderate of the perceptions that beryllium contiguous astir children calved with disabilities. It's a profoundly idiosyncratic taxable to me, and I'm conscionable truthful grateful to each those who person fto maine embark connected what are profoundly idiosyncratic and affectional journeys of their own."

Labelled arsenic a 'raw and intimate' documentary, the movie volition tackle a taxable which is precise seldom seen connected screen. Viewers volition get to spot Ellie research the choices astir prenatal testing, on with the implications of those decisions for the parents.

A statement reads: "Through cautiously obtained entree to 1 of the UK's starring Foetal Medicine Units, Ellie gains unprecedented entree to families who are navigating the often challenging decision-making process that comes with a prenatal diagnosis of disability.

"She volition research the imaginable presumption that a beingness arsenic a Disabled idiosyncratic is 1 of regulation and question whether the practice of radical similar herself successful the nationalist oculus has brought down barriers."

Jo Clinton, Controller of Factual ITV, elaborate the documentary volition beryllium insightful and profoundly idiosyncratic for Ellie. They said: "Packed with affectional quality narratives and layered with potent dilemmas, this is simply a movie that volition shed caller airy connected a important communicative of our times with the powerfulness some to determination america and marque america each think: 'What bash we feel? What would we do?'"

This isn't Ellie's archetypal foray into sharing her idiosyncratic beingness connected camera, she antecedently won a BAFTA for her documentary,Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family.

The documentary, which aired past year, saw Ellie embarking connected a travel to find her commencement mother, having been enactment up for adoption conscionable 10 days aft her birth.

Throughout the film, the Strictly prima pondered whether her adoption was a effect of her parents learning astir her disability.

It is not yet known erstwhile Ellie Simmonds: Should I person Children? Will aerial connected ITV and ITVX.