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I love the pics of Kelly Knox, but I would have loved to have seen more. I really hope she has longevity in this business she is a beautiful girl who clearly has potential to be a very good and successful model. The industry just has to open it's mind and give her a chance.
Comment by Phia on August 06 15:18

My name is Bethany and I am 8 years old and I love the pictures of Kelly because she is the same as me! I was born without my right hand and I think Kelly looks beautiful and I hope that I might be given the chance to do something similar when I am old enough.
Comment by Bethany Rose on August 06 20:54

The prize could not have gone to a better person than you Kelly, a lovely woman so full of confidence and positive thoughts about yourself and so lacking in any bitterness or insecurity about your disability. You are a lesson to us all and certainly to me, who has seemed to be dogged by negative thoughts all my life despite having no obvious diability except being a bit short. You say you have never thought of yourself as disabled and I believe you...I saw the pictures of you proudly riding your bike, smiling in your ballet gear, swinging on a rope as a girl and how you jumped straight into the swimming pool at school without a second thought when first learning to swim. Then I thought of what my thoughts would probably have been in the same position...how can I ever ride a bike properly with one hand?....what about the brakes and getting on and of?....What is the point of doing ballet when I cannot use all my limbs and look graceful and hold a partner normally?....How could I ever be as good as anyone else swinging on ropes and playing in trees etc etc.? How can I ever be much good at swimming? It's just not fair!!!!! It would be so easy to bear a grudge and feel bitter about life. I see you were a legal secretary once and perhaps must have needed to type reasonably well...I'm sure I would have decided I could be no good at that either, but I bet you are better with one hand than my two any day! Then I thought about some of the things I did today...digging the garden(one handed?), knocking a nail in(one-handed?)playing guitar(one-handed?)driving the car(one-handed?), dressing, tying shoe laces and doing up buttons. How about cutting or filing your fingernails? You get the picture...all these things could conjure up a world of negativity in most people. But not our wonderful Kelly...you would just get on with it and do the best you could. You certainly are such a strong person Kelly and such an example to so-called able-bodied people like me. I can say you have changed the way I look at my life and I'm so glad I came to know you through this programme. I feel I can change myself now.

I could wish you good luck but you won't need it as I know you make your own. All the very best to you in your new career.

Christopher Aylmer
Comment by Chris Aylmer on August 07 22:41