Jessica Tace Smith OAM is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and motivational speaker.
Smith swam for Australia for seven years and represented Australia at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece. [1]
Smith began working with the Butterfly Foundation as a body image advocate. She now works professionally as an MC, and motivational and public speaker. [2]
Published in July 2015, Little Miss Jessica Goes to School is a children's book written by Smith as a resource for children with a hand or arm difference. [3]
In 2017, Smith was named a Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year as a Game Changer. [4]
Smith was awarded an OAM in 2019 for service to the community. [5] [6]
Smith was born without her left forearm. As a young child she sustained serious burns to 15% of her body. In her teens she overcame an eating disorder and depression. [7]
Smith married Hamid Salamati, an Iranian-born Scotsman, in 2015 [8] and has three children. [9] She later converted to her husband's religion of Islam, at his family's request. [10] The family currently reside in Dubai.