Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

Content Creator

Jessica is best known for her eponymous Youtube channel – with more than 755,000 subscribers – on which she talks about her life with disabilities and chronic illness in a positive, uplifting way.

Jessica has two rare genetic conditions, HNPP and EDS, (because life blessed her that way) which affect her nerves and connective tissues. Her condition can vary in severity from day to day, with at its worst her waking to find she cannot move her arms or legs. For this reason, Jessica occasionally needs mobility aids. She is also deaf and partially visually impaired.

She lives with her wife, Claudia, and two adorable fluffy dogs in Brighton. Jessica is a notable figure in the LGBTQ+ community having been highly commended as one of the rising stars of the year by DIVA magazine and was ranked highly in the 2020 Pride Power List. Thanks to her own brand of ‘soft activism’, Jessica was rewarded for her services to the disabled community with an honorary doctorate from the University of Worcester.

She recently teamed up with Youtube Originals and Alain de Botton on the channel The School of to create an episode exploring the meaning of happiness where she shares her positive outlook on life.