Heather Mills
- Profession: Gold digger
- Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
- Associated with: Paul McCartney
Heather Mills is to undergo surgery - Jan 9, 2021
Sir Paul McCartney’s wife Heather Mills is to undergo surgery following complications caused by the birth of the couple’s daughter. The 37-year-old - who shattered her pelvis and lost a leg in a road accident 12 years ago - has reportedly been in agony since delivering daughter Beatrice, who was born in 2003.
Doctors fear the pregnancy interfered with a metal plate that holds the former model’s pelvis in place - and have told her they need to replace it. Heather’s spokesman is quoted in the News of the World newspaper as saying: "She is booked into hospital to have some remedial work because the baby put pressure on her pelvis when she was pregnant and it has been causing her discomfort ever since." Charity worker Heather joined 63-year-old Beatles star Paul on a US tour last year.
An insider revealed: "She found all the travelling between cities very difficult. "Paul was really worried about her but she refused to leave him, so they consulted doctors out in the States who advised her to have the surgery as soon as possible." Heather will have the operation later this month.
Heather marched into J.Lo’s fashion headquarters to protest - Sept 05
Heather Mills McCartney marched into Jennifer Lopez’s fashion headquarters to protest about the fur trade. The wife of Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney, who has been campaigning in New York with animal rights campaigners People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), stormed into the office of J.Lo’s fashion label, Sweetface, which uses fur in its designs. Heather was determined to show the Latin diva a video showing animals being skinned alive, but Jennifer was not there.
However, undeterred, Heather has vowed to find out where the star lives - and get her message across at J.Lo’s home. She told America’s New York Daily News newspaper: "PETA has tried for years to educate her about fur - at first gently and quietly, and now like this. "She keeps saying she wants to be educated. So the next stage is I’ll find out where she lives and show up there. And I’ll get hold of her at her premieres."
Heather says husband Paul, who is a long-term campaigner against animal cruelty, was "very proud" of her actions. Earlier this week, the blonde model was thrown out of a top New York store for protesting against the shop selling fur. Heather, who lost a leg in a motorbike accident in 1993, walked into the J. Crew store wearing a flat-screen TV showing images of mink, rabbits and coyotes being skinned alive.
Heather Mills was thrown out of a top New York store for protesting - Sept 05
Paul McCartney’s wife Heather Mills was thrown out of a top New York store for protesting against the shop’s sale of fur. The former model, who lost a leg in a motorbike accident in 1993, walked into the J. Crew store wearing a flat-screen TV showing images of mink, rabbits and coyotes being skinned alive. Vegetarian Heather was joined by 15 PETA members in her protest which is against the store’s policy of selling furs imported from China where animals are allegedly skinned alive and treated inhumanely before being killed for their fur.
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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