Aimee Mullins understands the thought of making something beautiful and extraordinary out of something that is considered to be "powerless, sidelined, stalled, worn-out, wrecked, helpless, incapable, lame". She makes her disability into something amazing, beautiful and something to be proud of.
Aimee was also born with fibular hemimelia and as a result had both legs amputated at the age of one. She has since competed in the paralympics, worked with designer Alexander Mcqueen and photographer Nick Knight as a model and has also worked as an actress. She shows that difference isn't necessarily a bad thing. It is not something to be feared, it is something that makes a person who they are and something that can be truly beautiful.
"Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to a realm of art. It can transform the thing that might have made people fearful into something that invites them to look and look a little longer and maybe even understand." Aimee Mullins, Febuary 2009.
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