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| Birth Name(s) : Heather Mills |
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Full Heather Mills Biography
A few months after she was born, she moved to Washington, then in County Durham. Her mother left home when she was nine, leaving Mills and her siblings in the care of her father. When he went to prison, she moved to London to live with her mother. As a teenager she ran away from home and found herself homeless.
Having tried several jobs, she began a career in modeling and in 1988, while aged twenty, she took part in a photoshoot with a male model with whom she performed simulated sexual acts. The photos were published in a book entitled Die Freuden der Liebe (The Joys of Love). An American edition was published in the same year with the title Sex Games. The male model has stated the book project was presented to him as a sex manual, not pornography.
In early 1989, after becoming more established as a model, she and her mother reconciled. Her mother had minor surgery and subsequently died; a blood clot moved into her lungs and heart resulting in death.
In 1990, she moved to what was then Slovenia, then still part of Yugoslavia, to recover from an ectopic pregnancy. She arrived to witness the unfolding war first-hand. Over the following two years, she modelled to raise funds for refugees of the war, commuting between Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and the UK and working with government agencies to establish refugee crisis centers, hospitals and housing for the homeless.
Following the accident she arranged for prostheses to be sent from the United Kingdom to the war-torn former Yugoslavia.
In October 2005 Mills won damages from The People newspaper for falsely claiming she had suffered a miscarriage which had left her and Paul grief-stricken and struggling to cope with their loss.
Under English law, a divorce or dissolution of marriage can be made in as little as six weeks. However, Mills has vowed to In fight the case in both Britain and the United States. She is using the services of divorce lawyer Anthony Julius, from London solicitors Mishcon de Reya who had acted in the 1996 divorce for Diana, Princess of Wales, while her estranged husband is said to have instructed the divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton, who acted for Prince Charles.
The Sun, which regularly refers to her as "Mucca" (a play on Paul's nickname "Macca"), has responded to Mills' threat to sue by asking her to "tick the boxes" on a series of allegations the paper has made about the former model stating "It is not clear what exactly she plans to sue us about." The paper then asks: "Come on Heather, what exactly did we get wrong? Is it that you're a ..." Underneath the open question, the Sun lists six allegations about the former model, with a blank box beside each one. The words beside the boxes read: "Hooker, Liar, Porn Star, Fantasist, Trouble Maker, Shoplifter".
In December 2006 Mills told the BBC that she has received "death threats" since splitting with her husband; on 17th December 2006 the BBC's website reported that Police have warned Heather Mills over a "non-specific threat" made to her safety.
In 2004 she received a "Children in Need" award from the annual International Charity Gala in Düsseldorf. The proceeds from this gala went to UNESCO.
Mills is currently a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), a private charitable trust, which is not directly connected to the United Nations Organization but works to highlight the goals of the UN.
Heather Mills also campaigns against the trade in dog fur (which is often passed off as fur from other animals), and particularly the live skinning of dogs.
She posed with her dog, in an anti-fur advertisement for a PETA campaign, which had the catchline: "If you wouldn't wear your dog, please don't wear fur" campaign.
In 2006 she attended, along with Juliet Gellatley, a debate on fur at the Oxford Union. When Mills was speaking she gave a prearranged signal to her sister Fiona who stood up, faced the audience and turned on the body TV which had been hidden under her coat. It showed a dog being skinned alive and its piercing screams of agony shrieked out into the hall. Heather was flooding with tears.
A video has come to light of Mills wearing a mink coat she owned and wrote about in her autobiography. However, this alleged video footage was taken in 1989, years before being involved in animal rights or vegetarianism. Mills has stated that "It's only since I met Paul that I really got to understand how vegetarianism not only benefits your health massively but also makes a huge difference to the planet, to animals and to feeding the world."
Heather Mills joined a team from Viva! to illegally raid a pig farm in Somerset in February 2007. The raid was said to have been carried out to publicize the use of so-called farrow crates, used for sows who are suckling piglets. A video of the raid has been circulating the internet.
Mill's has been actively involved with the Britain's leading vegetarian, vegan and animal rights organisation, Juliet Gellatley's Viva!. She is also involved with Gellatley's Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation. Mills became a patron to both organisations in 2005.
Academic and producer Robert Dassanowsky has also praised Mills' kindness and her support in his late mother's (Elfi von Dassanowsky) attempted amputation rehabilitation. . |
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