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Dancing on Ice star Chemmy Alcott has told how she named her horrific shin injury after celebrated professional golfer, Sir Nick Faldo.Speaking exclusively with Express.co.uk, the alpine ski racer, 39, opened up candidly about the injuries she's sustained throughout her skiing career, which included her breaking her neck aged 11 and a smash in 2010 that saw her bones pierce through both her skin and ski boots.Speaking about the horror crash which saw her break her right leg in two places in 2010, Chemmy told how she had been living with the pain.She said: "It was persistent straight after the crash."But I had it all the way until January last year."I had this, like, Nick Faldo size golf ball of swelling on the front of my shin that I squashed into a ski boot all the time," she added.The Ski Sunday presenter explained the reasoning behind naming her injury after the sportsman.Chemmy went on: "I always call him Nick Faldo."I'm a bit of a, 'name everything to personalise it', and I'm like, 'Oh, hey, Nick's, back today, I better take it easy.'"However, despite affectionately naming her injury after the sports commentator, she has never come face to face with him.Chemmy continued: "And I've actually never met Nick Faldo."And I've got nothing against him at all."But I didn't want him in my life, on my leg."Even though I was retired, I was spending a lot of time in a ski boot and actually working in skiing, I had relatively few days off," she divulged.Elsewhere in the interview, Chemmy opened up on wearing her injuries with "pride".She reasoned: "All the injuries were proof that I was willing and confident enough to take risks."A lot of my career, actually, in my healthiest, in my twenties, I didn't break anything."And it's

Dancing on Ice star Chemmy Alcott has opened up on the horrific injuries she's sustained over the course of her skiing career, insisting that she wears them with "pride".Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, the Ski Sunday presenter, 39, candidly discussed accidents she's suffered throughout her ski career, which she says she's "proud" of, as it shows she "pushed herself to the limit" while competing.The Alpine ski racer broke her neck skiing when she was just 11, which saw her have two vertebrae fused together.Altogether, she has broken 47 bones, including shattering her right leg in an 80mph accident, and a compound fracture of her fibula and open fraction of her tibia.Chemmy's right leg has a 15-inch metal pin and nine screws through the bone and she's undergone surgery for Anterior Cruciate Ligament tears.But when asked why she kept skiing in spite of her injuries, Chemmy gushed over her passion for the winter sport.She said: "I think the knowledge that the grass isn't greener, that I was able to make a small career out of something that I love doing, which is the most incredible job in the world."Actually, I'm really proud of all the injuries I had."Because all the injuries were proof that I was willing and confident enough to take risks," she added.The sportswoman told how she went through a phase of being too careful on the slopes which, while she didn't injure herself, affected her performance.Chemmy explained: "Actually I was healthiest in my twenties when I didn't break anything."It's because I was skiing within myself and I had a fear of failure."So I was choosing to go 80 per cent and keeping 20 per cent in my back pocket," she said.Chemmy went on to say how her scars reflected a time when she didn't hold

After exclusively announcing the birth of their second child late last year, Dancing On Ice pro skaters Yebin Mok and Dr Tom Naylor couldn’t wait to officially introduce their bundle of joy to OK! readers. Lilia Song-i Naylor made her grand entrance on October 21, giving the couple’s five-year-old son Theo a little sister. Yebin was back on the ice just eight weeks after her C-section and she and Tom are looking forward to getting involved with some of the ITV show’s professional routines this series.

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