Heather Mills

Profession: Gold digger
Place/Date of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, 12 January 2021
Associated with: Paul McCartney

Heather and the other animal rights activists left the store after police arrived and threatened to arrest them if they did not stop their demonstration. Outside J. Crew the blonde beauty - whose vegetarian husband Paul was introduced to the animal rights movement by late wife Linda McCartney, was heard telling passers-by: "Buying anything with fur supports one of the most gruesome industries on the planet." PETA spokesperson Michael McGraw said the group have now launched a website, JCruel.com, to put pressure on the store to drop its’ fur ranges.

Heather is counselling victims of the recent London bombings - Sept 05
Sir Paul McCartney’s wife, Heather Mills, is counselling victims of the recent London bombings. The blonde model, who lost her leg in a motorbike accident in 1993, has paid hospital visits to five people who lost limbs in the July 7th terrorist attacks.

Heather is now in America with her husband, who is preparing to start his US tour, but she is planning to continue to comfort the victims over the phone. A friend revealed to the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "Heather wanted the visits to be as low-key as possible. She knows what it’s like to lose a limb and has been determined to do everything she can to help."

Heather’s spokesman confirmed her hospital visits, saying: "She has been counselling five different victims and their families, but has been doing it in very much a private capacity." The 37-year-old, who has a baby daughter, Beatrice, with Sir Paul, tragically lost her own leg when she was hit by a police motorcycle 12 years ago. She also suffered a punctured lung, a fractured pelvis and cracked ribs in the accident, but has bravely devoted her time to helping others with lost limbs ever since.

Heather’s veggie role - Aug 05
Heather Mills McCartney is to follow in the footsteps of her husband and his late wife Linda by agreeing to take on the role of patron to a vegetarian campaign group. The former model and staunch vegetarian is lending her name to the pressure group Viva! - Vegetarians International Voice For Animals.
By Cher Tippetts

Heather?s fur trade - March 05
Heather Mills speaks out about shocking fur issue. Holding back tears at a conference in Brussels as she showed the gathered audience a coat made from the skins of 42 alsatian puppies. Heather is currently campaigning against the import of pet furs in to Europe from China for fashion. ?It’s barbaric that this is still going on. It’s more disgusting that the fashion industry where a lot of people are actually aware of it buy this because they know it’s cheaper than using the fox, mink and sable that is labelled,? she said.

Paul defends Heather - Feb 05
Paul McCartney has defended his wife after website criticism. The model was the subject of criticism from visitors to her own website, which accused her of being a "golddigger, a wicked stepmother and publicity seeker." The critics even went so far as to say that "losing a leg was perhaps the best thing to happen to Heather as it fed her desire for self publicity." Husband Paul however, has leapt to her defence, saying "it hurts me to see her wounded by these scurrilous reports." He also hit back at rumours that Heather did not get on with his children.

Heather takes leg off - April 04
Heather Mills McCartney is to remove her prosthetic leg in a road safety ad.

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Biography

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