Aimee Mullins

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Aimee Mullins at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival

Aimee Mullins (born July 20, 1976 in Allentown , Pennsylvania ) is an American athlete and actress who overcame a disability with exceptional performance and also works as a catwalk and photo model .

life and career

Aimee Mullins is the daughter of Irish immigrants and has two younger brothers. After giving birth, she was diagnosed with a rare malformation, fibular hemimelia : she was born without fibula . Because of this malformation, her legs could not bear her body weight, so that both of her lower legs below the knees were amputated in infancy . That's why she had to rely on prostheses since childhood.

Mullins attended Parkland High School in Allentown , Pennsylvania and then graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC with top grades. During her studies took athlete of track and field events of the NCAA in part and also competed with able-bodied athletes. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta , the then 20-year-old Mullins competed in the 100-meter run and long jump .

In the late 1990s, Mullins modeled a collection designed by the British designer Alexander McQueen for the French fashion house Givenchy . She wore bizarre hand-carved wooden boots. Their presence sparked heated controversy and the fashion world was appalled. Contemporary media such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung believed they were walking a tightrope between shock and chic, while the French daily Le Figaro spoke of "exploitation". Nevertheless, she advanced to a highly paid and sought-after top model.

In 2002 Mullins made her debut as an actress in Matthew Barney's art film Cremaster 3 , u. a. as a cheetah woman. Further film and television assignments followed.

In 2007 she took part in the "h2.0 Symposium" of the MIT Media Lab , which researches in the field of cybernetic prosthetics . The extreme climber Hugh Herr , who was also amputated on both legs, demonstrated high-tech prostheses he had developed in the Media Lab on a climbing wall.

She has been married to British actor Rupert Friend since May 1, 2016 , after being a couple since 2013.

Web links

Commons : Aimee Mullins  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aimee Mullins - Athletics | Paralympic Athlete Profiles. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Peter Hossli: America is the most beautiful venture hossli.com, August 2, 2000, accessed on May 7, 2008
  3. ↑ Stephanie Petit: Surprise! Rupert Friend and Aimee Mullins Secretly Got Married One Month Ago .
  4. ^ Abigail Radnor: What I've Learnt , The Times. February 15, 2014. Accessed December 3, 2017. 
personal data
SURNAME Mullins, Aimee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athlete, actress, catwalk and photo model
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Allentown , Pennsylvania , United States