Stef Reid has revealed Dancing On Ice has made her embrace her sexier side after she lost her foot as a teenager.
The Paralympic athlete has an artificial leg after she was struck by a motor boat’s propeller while playing in a lake in Canada when she was 15.
She told The Sun she spent years being “embarrassed” and covering up in trousers, but that her turn on the ice has helped to change things.
The star, 37, said she had been thinking that being successful as a person with a disability was fooling everybody into thinking that she didn’t have one, whereas Dancing On Ice is the opposite.
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She said: “We’ve gone with a blade that doesn’t even have a skating boot. It’s saying, ‘Yeah, you should stare at this because it’s awesome’, and I would stare at it too. I think that has probably been the most powerful thing for me – I guess just that whole journey of self-acceptance.”
Stef – who skates with pro Andy Buchanan on the ITV show – said from now on she thinks all of her competition uniforms are going to have to be “bedazzled”.
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“Sometimes it’s fun to do something a bit sexier, to say there are more sides to me than perhaps people have seen,” she said.
The star also shared that her husband, fellow Paralympian Brent Lakatos, has “loved” what Dancing On Ice has brought to their lives.
“He did tell me to hang on to the blonde wig after I skated as Baby from Dirty Dancing,” she revealed.
“I said, ‘I’m sorry, babe, I can’t’.”
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Stef said she Zooms hubby Brent – whose legs were left paralysed after a childhood ice hockey accident – before she takes to the ice so that he can see her outfits.
She said he always responds to tell her how stunning she looks but that he still prefers her without any make-up on.
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