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Aimee Mullins. Amazing. Full Stop. Drop Whatever You Are Doing And Watch This. Print E-mail
aimee_mullins.jpgA few weeks ago (in February 2009), I watched a 1998 TED Talk featuring Aimee Mullins, athlete, model, actress, women’s rights activist, double-amputee, and amazing woman.

Despite that fact that it had been filmed 11 years ago , Aimee's talk blew me away. Totally.

Tonight, courtesy of twitter, I discovered a newly posted TED Talk from Aimee. I've made several attempts to describe it for you in words, and I simply can't.

Please just watch the video below for yourself. It may change your life.

To give you an idea of who Aimee Mullins is, I've unabashedly copied her bio from the TED website:
Aimee Mullins was born without fibular bones, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant.

She learned to walk on prosthetics, then to run -- competing at the national and international level as a champion sprinter, and setting world records at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta.

At Georgetown, where she double-majored in history and diplomacy, she became the first double amputee to compete in NCAA Division 1 track and field.

After school, Mullins did some modeling -- including a legendary runway show for Alexander McQueen -- and then turned to acting, appearing as the Leopard Queen in Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle. In 2008 she was the official Ambassador for the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival.

She's a passionate advocate for a new kind of thinking about prosthetics, and recently mentioned to an interviewer that she's been looking closely at MIT's in-development powered robotic ankle, "which I fully plan on having.
(Thank you TED for making your amazing, thought-provoking and inspirational talks downloadable, embeddable and available to the world for free, and thus helping us all to soar on the wings of possibility.)


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written by Kamyar Houbakht, March 12, 2009
Absolutely beautiful smilies/smiley.gif Thanks TED, and you for sharing the joy & beauty smilies/smiley.gif
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written by Susan Macaulay, March 12, 2009
Yep smilies/smiley.gif Beautiful in every way. Glad you enjoyed it.
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written by Manar Dakkak, March 12, 2009
Amazing! Thank for sharing with us smilies/smiley.gif
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written by shailesh dadhich, March 12, 2009
its just amazing and makes a true sense definately god the almight is a women and see the world becomes so beautiful. a mother, daughter , wife or a freind
god bless
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written by Shereen Shabnam, March 14, 2009
Inspirational...Aimee is an exceptional woman. Thanks as always Susan for sharing such gems with us.
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written by Elise Sarkis-Talj, September 29, 2009
someone to look up to... Thanks Susan for sharing.
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written by Susan Macaulay, September 29, 2009
Yeah, in every sense of the words... smilies/wink.gif
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written by Maria A. Petit, September 29, 2009
I caught it the first time around and she truly is inspirational!!!
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written by Adam Kolm, February 11, 2010
I think your great.I added you to my freinds list on my space.Keep up the good work. smilies/cool.gif
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