Natalie du Toit

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.