Aimee Mullins
Mullins at the premiere of Baby Mama at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
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| Personal information | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Born |
July 20, 1976 Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Rupert Friend (m. 2016) |
| Website | www |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event(s) | Long jump, sprinting |
| College team | Georgetown University |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Paralympic finals | 1996 Paralympics |
Aimee Mullins (born July 20, 1975 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is 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.
Mullins was born with fibular hemimelia (missing fibula bones) and as a result, had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was one year old. A graduate of Parkland High School in Allentown and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., she took up sports and acting at an early age.
Also while at Georgetown, Mullins won a place on the Foreign Affairs internship program, working at The Pentagon. She is in demand around the world to make appearances as a speaker on topics of body, identity, design, and innovation. Her TED conference talks are amongst the most-viewed of all time and have been translated into 42 languages. She is credited as being one of the speakers that inspired Chris Anderson to purchase the TED conference from Richard Saul Wurman. She was named a TED "All-Star" in 2014.
With her paternal family in County Clare, she is a first generation Irish-American and holds citizenship in both the United States and Ireland.
As a young softball player, she once held the youth league record for stolen bases in softball. She also raced in downhill skiing while in high school. While attending Georgetown University on a full academic scholarship to the prestigious School of Foreign Service there, she competed against able-bodied athletes in NCAA Division I track and field events, and is the first amputee in history, male or female, to compete in the NCAA. She was the first person in the world on the "Cheetah" carbon-fibre sprinting legs, and made that design iconic through her extensive global press coverage. She is widely regarded around the world as a sports pioneer, and was elected to represent all American female athletes from 2007-2009 as President of the Women's Sports Foundation, founded by fellow sports pioneer Billie Jean King.
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