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 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'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.
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 recently met Michael Phelps. He is my absolute idol. I was totally starstruck. I did manage to get a few words out.
I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.