It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
AIMEE MULLINSWith L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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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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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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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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I’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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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