Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullinsis an American athlete, actress, and fashion model who first became famous for her athletic accomplishments. She was born with a medical condition that resulted in the amputation of both of her lower legs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth20 July 1976
CityAllentown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
anyone body boundaries good looking model push reason supposed
Part of the reason I wanted to model was to push the boundaries and challenge the perceptions of what a beautiful body is supposed to look like. Why should I feel any differently about looking good than anyone else?
adversity adapted havens
Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
creativity creative quality
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
beautiful humanity heartbreaking
If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
running sorry believe
I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
spirit disability crushed
The only true disability is a crushed spirit
asking knees amputees
I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'
adversity order needs
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
softball sports motivation
Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.
attitude men mad
When I watch 'Mad Men' and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
adversity responsibility care
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
body life-is prove
A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
mean self personality
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
self doubt may
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.