Aimee Mullins

Life and career

Aimee Mullins is the daughter of Irish immigrants and has two younger brothers. After the birth of a rare genetic defect that Fibulaaplasie was with her also known as fibular hemimelia, clearly. She came without fibulas to the world. Because of this malformation of legs her feet could not carry your own body weight, so its both legs were amputated below the knee in infancy. Due to this circumstance, she was obliged to use prostheses since childhood.

Mullins attended Parkland High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and subsequently graduated from the Georgetown University in Washington, DC with top scores. During her studies, the athlete participated in track and field events of the NCAA, competing against able-bodied athletes. In the Summer Paralympics in Atlanta in 1996, the then 20- year-old Mullins two Sprint World Records ran into their classification, in the 100 -meter run and the 200 -meter run; next she took part in the long jump competition.

In the late 1990s led Mullins as a model for French fashion house Givenchy designed by British designer Alexander McQueen collection before. She wore bizarre hand-carved wooden boots. Their presence sparked heated controversy, the fashion world was horrified. Contemporary media such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung believed to recognize a " fine line between shock and Schick ," the French daily newspaper Le Figaro spoke of " exploitation." Nevertheless, it became a highly paid and sought after supermodel.

2002 Mullins debuted as an actress in a small role in Cremaster 3 an originally designed for television series, in which she performed liberally as cheetah - woman. Other film and television tasks followed.