Aimée Mullins

This American woman has her legs amputated at the age of one because of a genetic disease. She grown with these two missing legs and she got used to it with artificial ones. Despite of her disability, she practised athletism at high level at school and even competed in the Paralympics in 1996 where she was classed 7th in her category. Nowadays she keeps on practising athletics. She also is a fashion model : she modelled for Alexander MacQueen in England in 1999 with wood prothesis, carved by hand.

She appeared in 2002 in an experimental film created by Matthew Barney, "Cremaster 3" in which she was a cheetah woman.

Of course I am impressed by her, and I really like the other kind of beauty she is exploring thanks to this body. She seems to have accepted it and moreover she "explores" her abnormal body with a creative and artistic mind. In my point of view she is fully living through her body as she could have rejected it for it was not normal.

A place to discover in Grenoble (if it's not already done)

If you want to have a drink and have a great moment of conviviality, I advice you the Berthom's bar. First of all, it is specialized in biers : biers they are suggesting are very various. You can savor blond, brown or white bier and each one has its particular flavors (fruits, stronger taste, spicies ...) specific to some countries like Belgium, Switzerland, France, ... . Moreover the atmosphere is unique : the place looks like an inn for the decoration melts stones, old wood and many bibelots from an other age. You just have to call the innkeeper!

Concerning the history of this bar, or rather these bars (there are now 9 Berthom's bars in France), everything began from original ideas of Berthom brothers : they wanted to realize an original concept around their passion of bier. Thanks to the success of their first bar, the brothers have been able to develop a "network" in France.

Practical information :

The Berthom's bar of Grenoble is located in the city center, not far from "Ancien Evêché" museum. It's precisely located at 1, Rue Hugues. It's opened from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. . Concerning drink's cost, it's quiet expensive : it appoximatively goes from 3 to 6 or 7 euros for a drink following the quality and volume of bier. It's more a bier to savor slowly, even if spicy peanuts they offered lead to consumption...