/ would like to tell
you about Aimee Mullins. Aimee Mullins is an American athlete, actress,
and fashion model best known for her athletic accomplishments.
Aimee was born with
a condition called fibular hemimelia. According to doctors, she needed a double amputation
soon after her birth, in order to be able to walk in the future.
Aimee's parents decided for the amputations, and at the age of one, both of her
legs were amputated below the knee. Aged two, she learned to walk with
artificial limbs and played normally with other children.
As a child, she was
gradually able to learn how to move and run very well with artificial legs, and
even play various sports like softball, hiking, swimming, and skiing.
Aimee first
attracted media attention as an athlete. Born without a fibula on each leg, her
future did not look very bright. Aimee was an excellent student and after graduation
she decided to pursue her sporting career. She was competing at the
national and international level as a champion sprinter, and setting world
records at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta. At Georgetown, where she
double-majored in history and diplomacy, she became the first double amputee.
In Mullins making
her mark in the sports world she has also excelled in the fashion world. In
1999, she was invited by Alexander McQueen to make her debut on the London catwalks. At an Alexander McQueen fashion show she made her modeling debut in
custom-made high-heeled limbs carved of ash. Mullins has six pairs of prostheses in all, including
shapely silicon cosmetic legs and the
carbon-graphite stems she wears to compete in track.
This actress,
athlete and activist Aimee Mullins has twelve pairs of amazing artificial legs.
Prostheses made her faster, prettier, and even 15
centimeters higher, and now Amy alter our understanding of the capabilities of the
human body.
Aimee is among People magazine's 50 most beautiful people in the world.
In 2002 Aimee's
film debut was a starring role in the highly acclaimed film by contemporary artist
Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3, first presented in the US at the Guggenheim
Museum in 2003. Cremaster 3 is "an astonishing work of creativity,"
and was lauded by The Guardian as "the first truly great piece of
cinema to be made
in a fine art context. It is one of the most imaginative and brilliant
achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema. In 2006, she appeared in World
Trade Center, playing the role of a reporter. She also appeared, in 2003,
in the made-for-television version of Agatha Christie's.
I think Aimee
Mullins is great. She's intelligent, poised, a great speaker, and a role model for many. I chose her because
of her love to life, because she doesn't give
up. I admire her spirit. We used to know the disabled as unhappy and helpless person but Aimee Mullins shows us the
strong and successful woman. Some
people have everything and don't appreciate what they have. She likes to say
that Pamela Anderson has more prosthetics in her body than she does, but nobody calls her disabled. Aimee Mullins proves to
us that even disabled people can live as we all. And we should be happy every
day just because we woke up or just because we have both of arms or legs or
just because we alive. We should be
thankful for what we have.
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