I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.