DANCING On Ice star Stef Reid has revealed training for prop week has been "tough" as she shared a photo of her icing her leg with frozen peas.
The track and field Paralympian, 37, took to Twitter yesterday to update fans on her training and showed off her sore leg.
Sharing a photo of her frozen pea-covered limb, she wrote: "You know it's been a tough week when the frozen peas come out!"
Stef's skating partner Andy Buchanan shed some light on her injury as he commented under the post.
The Canadian athlete penned: "I think you may have my fingerprints bruised into your leg under those peas."
DOI fans also shared their well wishes to Stef and wished her a speedy recovery.
"Take care @RunJumpStefReid a pack of frozen peas do a great job as an ice pack. ?," one penned.
A viewer posted: "Aoooch, heal fast!! Rooting for you ??".
"Get well soon," another wrote. Despite fans worry, Stef insisted she using the frozen peas for "maintenance".
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The sports star responded to concerns and wrote: "I'm fine! Just general maintenance ?".
Last month, Stef opened up about the horrific moment she lost her foot in a boating accident when she was a teenager on holiday in Canada.
Aged just 15, her life completely changed when she fell off a rubber ring while attached to a boat that was speeding around on a lake.
Recalling the moment it happened, Stef previously told The Mirror: "I was underwater for what felt like a long time and when I finally reached the surface, gasping for breath, I couldn’t feel any pain.
"My first thought was, 'That was lucky. I’m not going to tell my mum that happened!' Then I noticed the water around me was red. Everyone on the boat was freaking out and I knew something was wrong.
"Although I couldn’t see my injuries below the water, the propeller had caught me across my right leg, my glutes and lower back. I didn’t know it, but it had almost cut me in half.
"What I did know was there was way too much blood. I had no feeling in my right foot and I thought I was going to die."
Stef was rushed to hospital and the doctors did their best to save her life.
The Dancing on Ice star had to have her right leg below her knee amputated as a result of the accident.
Stef has gone on to have an extremely successful career as an athlete.
She competed for Canada in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, winning a bronze medal in the women's 200 metres.
In 2010 she started representing Great Britain and at the 2012 Games she won three silver medals in the sprint and mid-distance events.
Now the star has swapped her running shoes for some ice skates.
Stef is one of the celebs taking part in the fourteenth series of ITV's Dancing on Ice and viewers have taken to Twitter to praise her efforts on the ice.
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