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Beautiful, agile, and successful. Aimee Mullins has these qualities and much more. She’s a girl that transformed her weaknesses into strengths. She’s a model and an actress that contributes by giving a new significance to the concept of disability.

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Aimee had both her legs amputated right below the knee when she was one, and from that point on she fought to live a normal life, and to eliminate the word “disabled” from her vocabulary. Aimee Mullins did fashion shows for Alexander McQueen, worked with Matthew Barney, and like the athlete Oscar Pistorius, she demonstrated to the world that she could post amazing results on the competitive level.

The first prosthesis ever created dated back to the ancient Egyptian civilization, and it was slowly improved as the centuries rolled by. In the future however, even more powerful and efficient prosthesis’ will be built. Powerfoot allowed Aimee to improve her physical abilities, it was projected by Hugh Herr, a leader in the biomechanical field at MIT. “The next step” according to Hugh  “will be to completely connect it to the human body. In the future we will be able to implement it with sensor muscles, that will receive commands from the brain like an actual human limb.”

And while Aimee shows the world the vast array of available prosthetics – made from crystal for elegant nights, from wood, or decorated with heels to match a nice dress or skirt – she invites us to reflect on how in this hi-tech era, technology with bring a sense of normality to even the most disabled of people.

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• http://www.aimeemullins.com/