The mighty Quinn THE POWER OF BEING DIFFERENT

Jess Quinn had her leg amputated at the age of nine so that she could survive aggressive cancer. At 28, she now has a huge following on social media, has appeared on Dancing With the Stars and is outspoken on the subject of body diversity. She has written a memoir called Still Standing: What I’ve Learned From a Life Lived Differently.

Congratulations on your new memoir. Tell us why you wrote it.

I’ve always wanted to write a book since I was in hospital as a little kid, and after Dancing With the Stars, the opportunity arose, so

I took it up. The publishers offered me a ghost writer to help me write it, but I really wanted to write it myself, which is why it took two and a half years! My goal is to get my message out about normalising “different” as far and wide as possible.

You found out you had cancer at the age of