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Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins

Actress: Cremaster 3. Growing up between Pennsylvania and County Clare, Ireland, Aimee found her love of performance at an early age, and Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins was born without fibular bones, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant. She learned to walk on prosthetics, then to run -- 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 to compete in NCAA Division 1 track and field.

After school, Mullins did some modeling -- including a legendary runway show for Alexander McQueen -- and then turned to acting, appearing as the Leopard Queen in Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle. In 2008 she was the official Ambassador for the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival.

She's a passionate advocate for a new kind of thinking about prosthetics, and recently mentioned to an interviewer that she's been looking closely at MIT's in-development powered robotic ankle, "which I fully plan on having."

"the most amazing part [of MIT's h2.0 conference] was a talk by aimee mullins, an athlete, a model and an actress with both legs amputated below the knees. she compared prosthetic legs to eyeglasses, and in the same way that we wear designer eyeglasses she has designer legs (she was wearing her 4-inch heel legs for the talk). she made it clear that with enough attitude you could pull off anything as she left the crowd dumbstruck with her presence."Growing up between Pennsylvania and County Clare, Ireland, Aimee found her love of performance at an early age, and has defied conventional description ever since. A bilateral amputee with amazing physical dexterity, Aimee first brought international attention as an athlete. Being the first woman with a "disability" in the NCAA.Aimee Mullins' legs were amputated at the age of one, but with the help of the most advanced artificial legs, she has set world records in running the 100-meter, 200-meter dash and the long jump at the Paralympics. Off the field, Mullins is working on a successful modeling career. People magazine named her one of the "50 Most Beautiful People."

Aimee Mullins defies conventional description, both on and off the track. As an athlete, she holds world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter dash and long jump. Off the track, she was one of three nationally chosen high school students to receive full scholarships awarded by the U.S. Department Defense due to academic performance and interviews. In May 1998, she graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, a dean's list major in history and diplomacy. She is writing a book on athletics, beauty and motivation. She is a model, actress and speaker, making personal appearances around the country and giving talks to companies, charities and schools. The fact that she is bilateral below-the knee amputee, born without fibula bones in both shins, has not hindered her success in any way.

In August of 1995, Mullins decided she wanted to run track and field for Georgetown University. She had participated in athletics all her life, from skiing to soccer to softball and had always been able to compete against non-disabled kids. So when she called the university's renowned track and field coach, Frank Ganglion (who has coached 5 Olympians), there was no question as to whether she would become a part of his program. She told Ganglion she wanted to train for the1996 Paralympics in Atlanta. The following spring, she was a member of the Ho ya women's track team, competing against able-bodied athletes. Her times were behind the competition, but in her first collegiate meet, Aimee ran the 100 meters in 16.70 seconds. In the ensuing year, her times dropped to 15.77 in the 100 and 34.06 in the 200, both unofficial world records in her class. She is the first disabled member of a Division I track team and competed in the '96 Games. Her latest challenge was the 2000 Paralyze pic Games in Sydney, Australia.

Since the Olympics in Atlanta, Mullins' life has changed dramatically. News of her accomplishments and courage spread into the hearts of millions of people. She has been featured in many forms of media, including features in Sports Illustrated for Women, NBC's Dateline, The Rosie O'Donell Show, Parade, Esquire, Jane and Cosmopolitan. She was recently selected as one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World." She won the "Disabled Female Athlete of the Year" from USA Track and Field, was 1997's "Women of Distinction" from the National Association of Women in Education, a nominee for ESPN's Arthur Ashe Award for courage to be presented at the ESPY Awards show in 1998. Mullins was named to the Disabled Sports, USA Advisory Council and was nominated by Sen. Max Cleland for a position on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Her passion for running is equaled only by her drive and determination to make a difference in whatever she pursues. She says, "I want to do projects that challenge people's ideas of beauty and the myth that disabled people are less capable, less interesting. I want to expose people to disability as something that they can't pity or fear or closet, but something that they accept and maybe want to emulate. To me, beauty is when people radiate that they like themselves."
As I lumber around my crappy life with the meat bricks attached to my ankles I refer to as feet, I look to the sky and scream "Isn't there a better way!" Well it turns out that perhaps there is! Aimee Mullins is a prime example of how regular-footed humans are just absolutely boring in every way.

Aimee was born without fibulae in both legs, and as a result was assured she would be in a wheel chair for the rest of her life. To increase her mobility, doctors amputated both legs below the knee before the age of one. By age two, Aimee had learned how to walk using prosthetic legs and now, can beat most people in a foot race. She then went on to be a part of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, fashioned with woven carbon-fiber prostheses, aerodynamically designed after the hind legs of a cheetah. Aimee set several World Records including the 100 meter, 200 meter and the long jump. The unique design of her "artificial" legs, coupled with her fierce determination and beauty generated a lot of attention, and Amy has parlayed this natural interest into a career of sorts beyond sports. To make matters even more pathetic for us able-bodied, Amy has devoted her life to philanthropic causes.

Here comes the science of Amy's feats.

Can a person with steaks under their ankles be faster if said legs were amputated and replaced with a carbon fibre frame? Scientists are divided into two camps. Some say that the amputated limbs can give a 400m sprinter upwards of 12 seconds of advantage over an athlete with meat clubs attached to their knees. Others say that it provides no advantage whatsoever.

In the case of Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee track runner, his fate has been flip flopping back and forth as scientists in whiny voices argue over which Star Trek captain was better and whether or not the prosthesis' allows Oscar an advantage. Oscar was banned by the IAFF ( International Association of Athletics Federations) from competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics. However, in 2009 an MIT study revealed that they believed there was no advantage from the limbs and the ban was lifted just in time to give Oscar Pistorius the considerably large proverbial shaft.

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