Public personality, environment speaker, activist and model, Heather Mills is a British entrepreneur who came into the public eye when a car accident left her amputated and she sold her story to a tabloid newspaper. Using the proceeds to set up a charitable organisation that recycles old prosthesis for disadvantaged amputee’s Mills has gone on to become a motivational speaker for the disabled and amputee community and shot to further infamy when she began a romantic relationship with former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney.
After her marriage to McCartney Heather Mills became a prominent environment speaker and animal rights activist and s of 2012 is a patron of Viva! (Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals) and has worked as an ambassador and motivational speaker for the Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation. Heavily involved in charity work, Heather Mills is also vice-president of the Limbless Association and often appears at disabled advocacy and after dinner speaker events.
Known previously for her passion for skiing Mills skied for the development team for Britain’s Winter Paralympic team 2014, and has won several gold medals for her skiing abilities. Despite stepping down from the team before the Winter Olympics Heather Mills continues to be involved in disability sport and frequently works as a motivational speaker discussing her desire to overcome the limitations of her own disability to continue taking part in sport.
Further complimenting her background as an animal rights and environment speaker Heather Mills is an outspoken vegan and owns her own chain of vegan restaurants and brand of vegan foods, she is actively involved in the business management and development of her various endeavours and has appeared as an after dinner speaker and business expert at vegetarian, vegan and animal rights conventions.
In September 2023 we sat down virtually with Heather Mills and discussed her battles overcoming adversity and how she lives by the mindset that 'even the impossible is possible'. Watch our Exclusive Interview with Heather Mills.
When at corporate events, Heather is known to cover the following topics:
- Sustainability & The Environment
- Animal Rights
- Vegan & Vegetarianism
- Disability Sport
- 2025 – Awarded the Haute Couture Austrian Icon Award i
- 2019 – Created one of the largest plant-based food production footprints in Europe
- 2015 – Set a Guinness World Record as the fastest disabled woman on Earth, reaching a speed of 166.84 km/h (103.6 mph)
- 2015 – Set three winter sports world records in disabled ski-racing disciplines (downhill, skeleton, and ski-jumping)
- 2009 – Launched her multi-million-pound vegan food brand, VBites Foods
- 2005 – Appointed as a prominent patron for the British animal rights organisation Viva!
- 2004 – Received the Human Security Award from the University of California, Irvine
- 2003 – Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Open University
- 2001 – Appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Association's Adopt-A-Minefield campaign
- 2000 – Outstanding Achievement Award from the World Ecology University
- 1996 – Awarded the Human Achievement Award by The Times
- 1996 – Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her extensive anti-landmine advocacy work across Croatia and Cambodia
- 1995 – Published her best-selling autobiography, 'Out on a Limb', raising widespread awareness for amputees
- 1995 – Honoured with the People's Courage and Determination Award at the inaugural Pride of Britain Awards
- 1993 – Established a humanitarian support organisation providing prosthetic limbs to amputees following her own accident
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