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Paralympian athlete Ellie Simmonds is set to make her presenting debut on screens this evening as she fronts A World Without Dwarfism, a new BBC documentary to investigate a controversial new drug that claims it can bring an end to her genetic condition

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00:00If you could go back in time, do you think now doing the documentary,
00:04would you have had the drug or would you have preferred your life to have been exactly the same?
00:08To be honest, exactly the same.
00:10And yeah, it's just been really, really good.
00:13And I think in this documentary I interviewed the likes of Will,
00:16who has seen the different side of living with dwarfism.
00:19He's a Paralympian, but he gets in the streets, he gets photos, photographed,
00:25the bad side of society.
00:27So I really hope that it educates people that that doesn't happen.
00:31You know, like we've seen so many amazing things in the public,
00:34the likes of Rose and the individual with Down syndrome presenting the likes of CBBC.
00:39But there's still, at the end of the day, some in society,
00:43still people are getting seen as different and in a bad way, the negative side of it.
00:48And hopefully that starts to change.
00:50And I thought that it would have with the likes of the Paralympics and stuff,
00:53but that's sport, isn't it?
00:55And seeing it in a different light is different.
00:57And then...
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