With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
AIMEE MULLINSI’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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