SeeHer Story airs every week on PEOPLE.com and @PeopleTV social handles Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Australian swimmer ...

Using freedom as a through line, Mazeika follows the life of Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman (1886–1975), “the original mermaid,” who made a splash internationally, completing record-breaking ...

Annette Kellerman, the Australian swimming star of the early 1900s, made a number of films, most of them in the 1910s, which displayed her athletic skills. Most of these films were underwater ...

In the early 20th century, most Western women still bound their cores in corsets. Not so with Annette Kellerman, the record-setting Australian swimmer who told a crowd of New York City socialites in ...

Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman made a splash around the world with her groundbreaking swimwear choices and focus on female fitness. To honor the late pioneer in sports and fashion, SeeHer Story ...