Jessica Smith

Jessica Tace Smith is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and motivational speaker.

Swimming Smith swam for Australia for seven years and represented Australia at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Later career Smith began working with the Butterfly Foundation as a body image advocate. She now works professionally as an MC, and motivational and public speaker.

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.

Awards In 2017, Smith was named a Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year as a Game Changer.

Smith was awarded an OAM in 2019 for service to the community.

Personal life 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.

Smith married Hamid Salamati, an Iranian-born Scotsman, in 2015 and has three children. She later converted to her husband's religion of Islam, at his family's request. The family currently reside in Dubai.