It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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