About Heather Mills
Heather Anne Mills (born 12 January 1968) is an English former model, businesswoman and animal rights activist. She came to public attention in 1993 when she was a model and was run over by a police motorcycle in London. The accident resulted in the amputation of her left leg below the knee, but she continued to model using a prosthetic limb. She had begun a relationship with Paul McCartney by the end of 1999. They married in June 2002 and Mills gave birth to a daughter the following year. They separated in 2006, and finalised their divorce in 2008. After her marriage to McCartney, Mills became involved in animal rights advocacy and as of 2024 is a patron of Viva! and Viva! Health. She is also vice-president of the Limbless Association. The first convoy of limbs arrived in Zagreb in October 1994, and Mills travelled with the convoy to film interviews with some of the recipients for the daytime television programme Good Morning with Anne and Nick. Mills was awarded £200,000 by the police authority as recompense for her injuries, (equivalent to £411,918 in 2023) even though the police motorcyclist was later cleared by magistrates of driving without due care and attention. After an operation, Mills discovered that she had been previously identified as having an O rhesus negative blood type, when in fact she was A rhesus negative, which had interfered with her attempts to follow the so-called blood type diet.
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