Heather Mills

March 11th, 2008 admin Posted in Top 100 Women 2008 |

Birth Name
Heather Anne Mills

Height
5′ 8½” (1.74 m)

Spouse
Paul McCartney     (11 June 2002 - present) (filed for divorce) 1 child
Alfie Karmal     (6 May 1989 - 1991) (divorced)

Trivia

Met Paul McCartney at the Daily Star Awards ceremony in 1999, a year since his first wife, Linda McCartney, had died. They didn’t get a chance to talk. However, Paul was touched by Heather’s speech and contacted her. Paul McCartney was invited by Heather Mills to her 32th birthday in 2000. In March of 2000, they announced that they were a couple after months of secrecy. In July of 2001, Paul proposed to her, they married in 2002, had a daughter in 2003, and separated in 2006.

On August 8, 1993, she walked across the street and was hit by a police motorcycle. She injured her pelvis, punctured her lung, and lost her left lower leg (below the knee). She is helping others who have lost their arms and legs so that they can enjoy life again

Worked as a model before and after she lost her lower half leg. Then she became an human activist and is presently involved in a campaign to get rid of landmines with her husband.

Her father’s original name is John but he changed it to Mark to avoid confusion with actor John Mills. Her mother’s name is Beatrice Finlay. She has an older brother, Shane, and a younger sister, Fiona. At age 9, her mother left to be with Charles Stapley. Her father abused his children until he was arrested when Heather was 13 and the children were sent to live with their mother. Her father later had another child, Claire. Her mother died in 1989 and she is estranged from her father.

Daughter Beatrice Milly McCartney born on October 28, 2003. The baby was named in honor of Heather’s late mother Beatrice and Paul’s Aunt Milly.