Background
Morgan was born and raised near Crowborough, East Sussex. Her father, John, is a wine trader and her mother, Carol, was variously a nurse, gun dog trainer and air stewardess.
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Education
She comes from a wealthy family and attended Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland to study for her A levels, having been expelled from her previous school in England.
Career
Foreign the author, see Sophie Morgan (author). Thirty-one year-old Morgan from East Sussex is self-employed. In 2003, Morgan crashed her car whilst driving and was paralysed from the chest down.
Describing the accident, she said that she had been the nominated driver and was sober: "Her friends were way over the limit but she’d only had a glass of champagne".
She also added that "she felt more fulfilled since the accident". Self-employed in a number of areas, Morgan manages a portfolio of properties through her property investment company.
Reality television Contestant
Morgan was a Reality television show contestant - being one of the few people to appear in two different Reality television shows about disability. Carolyne Underwood, who appeared in 2010 in Dancing on Wheels and in 2012 on The Undateables (2012), is the other disabled woman who has appeared in two reality shows.
In 2005, 18 months after becoming a parapalegic, Morgan took part in the first series of BBC2’s series Beyond Boundaries when she travelled through Nicaraguain jungles with ten other disabled people.
She was one of the three contestants who were unable to complete the expedition and did not appear in the final episodes of the series. In 2008 she and 7 other disabled women were contestants on Britain"s Missing Top Model. where the prize was a fashion shoot for Marie Claire magazine. Morgan was the runner-up to Kelly Knox.
Other disability-related work
Morgan designed the "Mannequal".
She has also appeared in Horizon for BBC2 and the The One Show for BBC1 and has reported for Channel 4 News as part of the Number Go Britain series. She has also assisted in promoting SEAT, a programme to help disabled youths learn to drive.
In 2012, Morgan was one of the presenters for Channel 4 during the Paralympics, where she presented the weather report each morning. She wrote an article for the Sports section of The Independent about the Paralympics that was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor.
Morgan has secured a number of sponsorship deals for promoting disability equipment.
In 2015 Morgan became Patron of disability charity Scope.
