Aimee Mullins

Biography

Aimee Mullins is an American athlete, actress, and public speaker born in 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Born with fibular hemimelia, she lost both legs below the knee at age one but learned to walk with prosthetics by two. She became the first amputee to compete against nondisabled athletes in NCAA events and competed in the 1996 Paralympic Games, before transitioning into modeling and acting.