Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Associated with: Paul McCartney
"I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out she’s actually got two legs."
His remarks were cheered by a celebrity-packed audience of musicians which included Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, U2, The Who and Boy George.
Today’s audience included Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Daldry, Jeremy Irons and Kathy Burke.
Heather wants Desperate Housewives role - Nov 23 2006
Heather Mills could be set to bag a role on Desperate Housewives.
Sir Paul McCartney’s estranged wife admitted to US entertainment show Extra that she was hooked on the show and thought it would be "fantastic" to make an appearance on Wisteria Lane.
Desperate Housewives executive producer and creator Marc Cherry said the idea was "fascinating".
"If Heather Mills McCartney can act I’d be interested," he told Extra.
Heather also said she was determined to move on from her split with former Beatle Sir Paul, and wished she had never become famous.
But she said it was worth it for the good it meant her charity helping landmine victims could do.
Asked if she would like to give up being a celebrity, Heather answered: "For me, personally, 100%. I wish I’d never ever ever gone down that route.
"But for my charity, no."
She said her tough childhood was helping her now as she goes through a bitter divorce.
"I went through things but it kind of made me who I am now," she explained.
"It made me strong, it made me determined to move on."
Heather said she thought she looked like uptight Bree from Desperate Housewives, played by Marcia Cross, and had a similar character to Felicity Huffman’s harassed mother Lynette.
"I’m totally hooked," she said.
"When I’m stressed... I just go and watch their characters."
Heather ’devastated’ by criticism - Nov 22 2006
Heather Mills says she would rather have had all her limbs cut off than face the criticism she got for her relationship with Sir Paul McCartney.
The model, who lost a leg in a motorbike accident in 1993, told a US TV interviewer her bitter divorce from the former Beatle, with whom she had been "madly in love", was "devastating".
She would never marry again as a result, she added.
"I would rather someone come up and chop off all my limbs than go through what I went through," Mills told entertainment show Extra of her courtship with Sir Paul.
"It’s a fact because if your limbs are chopped off you ... get another limb and there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
"When you’re vilified for doing nothing but falling in love with an icon ... I’d rather have all of my limbs cut off that’s the God’s honest truth."
Asked if she would ever marry again, Mills replied: "Never. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t fall madly in love or have a soul mate or anything like that, but I would never go through this again.
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Heather Mills has definitely got one hell of a story, she was born in 1968, her mother left the family home when she nine, leaving Heather to care for her siblings under the watchful eye of an abusive father. Heather ran away from home at thirteen and found herself homeless, living under Waterloo arches for four months.
She was eventually "discovered" and started modelling, it wasn’t long after that at the age of 22, that she moved to Northern Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, for a holiday and eventually ended up moving there to build a new life and become a ski instructor. Whilst out there she witnessed the outbreak of civil war and the effect it had on many of her friends. On her return to England she set up a refugee crisis centre, funded by the modelling work that she was still doing, she continued her charity work over the next two years when tragedy struck, on a visit to the UK.
In August 1993, Heather was involved in a road accident with a police motorcycle. Her injuries included crushed ribs, a punctured lung, and multiple fractures of the pelvis and the loss of her left leg below the knee. Realising her modelling career would now possibly be over, she summoned the press into her hospital room and sold her story.
Through the adjustment of returning to ’normal’ life with one leg, Heather found a practical problem that she felt she could solve. Her residual limb, or stump as she prefers to call it, was fitted with an artificial limb. But due to the nature of the wound changing in shape and size, the prosthetic leg had to be continually replaced, whilst the old leg would be discarded. Heather realised that if the redundant prosthesis would never find another use, there must be literally thousands out there just waiting for a new home. With her experiences in the former Yugoslavia, Heather knew that these redundant limbs would be more than welcome in areas such as the Former Yugoslavia.
Heather instigated a nation-wide appeal for the donation of unwanted prostheses, and then employed the services of the inmates at Brixton prison to dismantle the limbs and make them ready for transport. October 1994, just a year after her accident, the first convoy of artificial limbs and medical equipment left for Zargreb. Arriving at the Institute of Prosthetics in Zargreb the limbs were now ready to be fitted. Over 22,000 amputees and victims of land-mine explosions have been helped since the first Convoy left the U.K.
It was not long after that at the young age of 25 that Heather wrote her biography, whilst most 25 year olds could hardly fill a chapter, Heather had a real story to tell. ’Out on a Limb’ landed straight onto The Times’ best-seller list as well as appearing in the 1997 Reader’s Digest Best non-fiction compilation. The proceeds from the book go to raising money for child amputee war victim’s world-wide (although the most publicised are in the Former Yugoslavia). All Heather’s charity work has funded from her own pocket.
Heather has been given many accolades and awards for her work for charity. Former Prime Minister John Major presented her with the Gold Award for Outstanding Achievement; The Times presented her with their Human Achievement Award, and the British Chamber of Commerce not only named her Outstanding Young Person of the Year, but also named an award after her - the Heather Mills Award. If this was not enough, in 1996 she received a nomination for The Nobel Prize and has since received the 1999 "People of the Year Award", The "Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement 2000 Award", The "Pantene Spirit of Beauty Award" and the "Woman of the Year" by the Blue Drop Group in Sicily as well as lots more.
Heather collected the "REDBROOK Mother & Shakers Award", presented by Hillary Clinton, and she received the Victory Award hosted by the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC.
If that was not enough, Heather has also done a lot of TV work presenting for programmes such as That’s Esther.
In her personal life, she found temporary happiness with ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. Despite some rather obvious objections from Paul’s daughter Stella, the couple married in 2002 and had a daughter together.
In 2006 both Paul and Heather made a joint statement confirming their separation, after Paul McCartney filed for divorce, citing ‘unreasonable behaviour’. What has followed has been a media storm, with Heather at the heart of the controversy.
The main allegations is that she merely married Sir Paul for his money and fame, with British papers suggesting that this could be the biggest divorce settlement ever witnessed. Heather has always denied the allegation of being a ‘gold digger’, claiming that the separation and process of divorce is ‘worse than losing my leg’.
Alongside her threat to sue national papers over ‘false, damaging and immensely upsetting’ reports about the divorce, it has also been reported that Heather has received death threats since splitting with her husband.
In January 2003, a settlement was announced between the two parties, believed to amount to £32 million, plus a gagging order.
November 2007