Sport is a great thing to get involved with, it's not just fitness but it also gets your competitive side out.Collection: Fitness
You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to.Collection: Life
On a typical Monday I swim from six until 8am. I go from there to the gym and do a session from nine until half 10. I get home about 11ish. Take a nap and have lunch. Swim from half three to half five. I get home at half six. Have dinner.Collection: Home
I don't wear jewellery and I don't care about shoes and dresses. But I love my handbags. They're my real luxury.
I've swum with dolphins in Mozambique and with bull sharks off Mexico. They didn't tell me how dangerous the sharks were until after I got out.
I don't see it as a disability. I'm just a normal person, but a bit smaller than everyone else.
I'm a big, big fan of cheesecake, so I love baking that.
I hated Rio and I hated everything about it.
I think there are definitely times when I feel the expectations on my shoulders and I think it's because even before I race people expect me to get a gold medal and it's not the case.
It drives me forward knowing people are watching me and I have to swim well.
I've always been focused.
It's hard to stay at the top. There's a cheesy saying isn't there: it's easy to get to the top but once you're there it's harder to stay there, and I'm fully aware of that.
Everyone saw me cry with happiness after I won the Beijing medals. It's really embarrassing.
I was really keen on horse-riding, too, but I knew I had to give it up to give more time to swimming.
Swimming outside the pool is scary. I don't like not knowing what's underneath me - it's quite dark in lakes. I swam in the sea in Australia around the Great Barrier Reef, though, and that was incredible because you could see exactly what was underneath you.
I love 'Come Dine With Me.'
I recently met Michael Phelps. He is my absolute idol. I was totally starstruck. I did manage to get a few words out.
I love the 400m.
A lot of the time, when I swim, I close my eyes because it is definitely lonely.
Monday to Fridays I'm practically an athlete every hour of the day.
I think what I'm most proud of about myself away from the pool, is being OK on my own.
I'm OK travelling, meeting people, seeing the world with my own eyes.
My philosophy is that there is no point in being sad or hating who you are.
I love the ocean and I'm passionate about conservation and the environment.
Growing up, most of our family holidays were staycations in the U.K.
I'm the baby of the family and love it.
I've always been competitive and determined. It's part of my personality.
I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.
I didn't just swim when I was younger. I did ballet, horse riding, everything. I was very active.
I don't want to be stuck up. I'm just a normal person. My friends think of me as a normal friend, and I like that.
My plan of going to Tokyo has gone out of the window, but I was able to spend three to four months with my family and I've never been able to do that before.
I jumped into my parents loft where I was actually able to go through all my cards, all the newspaper cuttings that my family collected, and it made me realise just how big London 2012 was - it was huge! That was a Games that I will never, ever forget and it was definitely my highlight.
I like Drake, I like Rihanna, I like Beyonce, I like Mumford and Sons, and Coldplay.
It's nice to hope to inspire people out there who maybe have a little less motivation or who are low in confidence or self-belief to go out there and achieve.
I think it's really important to show people that there's nothing different about us; especially as athletes - we train as hard as the Olympians.
I've got to go out there and do a job and focus on swimming and do my own thing, and I think us athletes can go out there and perform no matter what... This is what we train to do.
After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that.
I wear adult sizes but chop off the arms and legs.
My mum took me to swimming lessons when I was very young, four years old.
Watching Nyree Lewis get her medal in the 100 backstroke inspired me to want to go to a Paralympics and it just went on from there.
Four Games is incredible. Especially as an nine-year-old watching Athens 2004. To think as a kid then I would not just go to one Games but four.
For me I normally rise up to a Paralympics, I love those pressured environments.
When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.
The whole nation thinks I should be winning, winning, winning all the time and that's a lot to take on my shoulders.
It's really exciting to get the Paralympic sport out there and inspire the next generation - I remember watching the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games that inspired me to want to got to a Paralympic Games.
If you've got a disabilty you're normal, it's just something that's different.
I think people shouldn't think 'I'm not normal, I've got a disability.' Overcome that, go out there and enjoy your life and achieve something.
As an older woman now, I feel the pressure more, I feel all those different aspects, I'm more aware of that. Whereas as a 13-year-old, as a 17-year-old, you just do swimming, you're just doing it as sport where you don't really think of all the outside bits.
To be honest, I've not really felt like a flagbearer for women's sport.
Sometimes I'll get reminded that I promote Paralympic sport and Paralympics GB. Yes, I have a role but I don't feel like an idol.