Aimee Mullins

For his 36 years of Aimee Mullins had a lot - she made her modeling career, active in films, has set two world records in running and long jump and won an honorable place in the list of 50 most beautiful people in the world according to the «People». All this seems to be quite natural for purposeful activity of young women, if not for the fact that Amy ... no legs.



















Amy was born with the pathology of small tibia and 6 months of her amputated. Doctors verdict: the child will never be able to walk, but they did not know Amy. Soon the girl went, and then run and jump start in length. And all this in a specially designed prostheses.













In 1996 at the Paralympics in Atlanta, Amy set two world rekorad, running a hundred meters in 17.01 seconds and jumping in length by 3.14 meters.









But that's not all. In 1999, Amy took part in the fashion show of Alexander McQueen. Newly catwalk model has become a star, and glossy magazines - Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire - staged after her, just to get an amazing girl in your photo session.























In the arsenal of Amy 12 pairs of prostheses, each of which was created by the design of the Miss Mullins. For example, the so-called "cheetah legs" of carbon fiber girl uses to run, and silicone legs attending social events. These wonderful feet are very difficult to distinguish from the real thing - they traced the veins, veinlets, and even the hair follicles. In addition to the collection of Amy prostheses ash handmade (created specifically for the show Alexander Mcqueen), transparent, glass-like legs of polyurethane prosthesis root beet and potatoes.













With the help of his legs Amy can regulate its growth from 173 to 185 cm. Being a designer's own body - is not this what every girl dreams?









In my opinion, merit Amy not only in the fact that she was able to find the strength to lead a happy and active, as they say "full" life, but also that it destroyed the stereotype of the so-called "people with disabilities". Infirm, helpless, poor people, in which painful to watch - these in our view people with disabilities. And here we face blooming, happy, successful young woman. Quite a different picture.

What kind of word is - disabled? Pamela Anderson in the body longer prosthesis than me. But disabled nobody calls.