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Heather, Lady McCartney (born January 12, 1968 in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England), usually called Heather Mills (her maiden title) or even Heather Mills McCartney, the previous model and anti-land mines campaigner, is better known for marrying Sir Paul McCartney of the Beatles in 2002, four years when Linda McCartney died of breast cancer. Mills & McCartney got their foremost toddler, Beatrice Millie, around October 2003.

Early career and an accident
Her personalized life before her marriage to Paul McCartney was fairly colourful: homelessness, one former marriage (to computer sales director Alfie Karmal), 2 ectopic pregnancies and two fiancés.

Inside 1990, she moved to what was so northern Yugoslavia (okay, Slovenia), where she saw a flowering civil war number one-hand. On top a as punishment 2 years she modelled to raise funds for refugees of the war, & commuted between Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and England.

Inside August 1993, she was hit by a constabulary motorcycle while crossing a road; her injuries involved crushed ribs, the perforate lung, the metallic shell looking for to become put inside her pelvis & the amputation of her left leg below a knee. She late sold her story of her recovery as punishment the accident to a British tabloid, with details of how else she & her swaaround get laid in her hospital bed.

As punishment a accident she intended for unwanted prostheses to exist as sent from either a United Kingdom to the war-torn previous Yugoslavia.

Although couple dispute her personal magnetism or even many of a independent cases inside her life history, Heather Mills McCartney has been criticised within several newspapers, like the Sunday Times, for what has been described as embellishments to her life history, & questioning a effectiveness of her large-hearted act in the Balkans. An article around the Sunday Days in 2004 drew an angry response from hubby Paul McCartney on Heather's website. She has as well came under criticism from either numbers of in a disabled community for proclaiming to speak in their behalf.

Marriage and recent life
Heather Mills married Paul McCartney within June 2002 around an elaborate ceremony at a castle in rural Ireland. She is presently the United Nations Association Goodwill Ambassador.

Work for amputees
Additionally to promoting distribution of prostheses worldwide, she has been required by owning a development of the Heather Mills McCartney Cosmesis [http://www.heathermills.org/limbs2.html] [http://jc5.thenexus.co.uk/dev/dorset/index.php?page=1000051] "to give amputees in America a chance to wear a Dorset Orthopaedic cosmesis without the need to visit us here in the UK".

Work against landmines
Heather & Paul McCartney come two patrons of Adopt-A-Minefield, and payoff from either her updated autobiography, A Single Step, will be donated to the induce.

Heather Mills: Adaptive Skier on a Mission
Former ski instructor and model, now a disabled skier who skis with an artificial limb, inspires other amputees to enjoy adaptive sports with prosthetics.

USA Today: McCartney, Bride going to The Chapel
Details of the impending wedding of McCartney and Mills, that will occur later today.

Paul and Heather
Links to news articles about McCartney and Mills.

BBC News: Heather Mills: Can't Buy Me Love
Overview of her life and accomplishments, and media opinion of her impending marriage to Paul McCartney.

BBC News: Mills' Triumph Over Tragedy
Biographical news article. Related links.

AskMen.com: Heather Mills
Pictures, commentary, and biography.

Heather Mills McCartney.org
Official site with biography, news, and information.

USA Today: Paul McCartney's wife, Heather Mills, Gives Birth to Girl
Birth announcement of their first child together; a daughter, named Beatrice.


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