Heather Anne Mills (born 12 January 1968) is an English charity campaigner and former model, and the ex-wife of musician Paul McCartney. Mills was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, to John "Mark" Francis Mills (a British ex-paratrooper) and his wife, Beatrice Mary Finlay; the daughter of a colonel in the British Army. Mills has an older brother, Shane, a younger sister, Fiona, and a half-sister, Claire.

Mills started her own model agency in 1986, and married Alfie Karmal on 6 May 1989, but was divorced in 1991. Mills was living with a ski instructor in Croatia in 1990, just before the Croatian War started, later organising supplies for Croatia, and accepting modelling assignments in Austria to pay for the trip. In 1993, Mills was knocked down by a police motorbike and suffered serious injuries; losing her left leg 6 inches below the knee. She sold her story to the News of the World, using the proceeds to establish the Heather Mills Health Trust, which recycles discarded prostheti