Is this the new woman in Rushdie’s life?

“Salman would take her arm as they walked around the room and when he was talking to people, she’d wait a step behind him. She said they’d been to another movie earlier that day and they’d been drinking together since the afternoon.” “We’ve been hanging out together for the day. I’m a little drunk,” she said, “and we’re tired,” the paper quoted a guest at that party as saying.

The daughter of a working — class Irish immigrant to the United States, Aimee, 28 years younger to Rushdie, was born without any shin bones and had both her legs amputated below the knee when she was just a year old. For most of her life, she wore cheap, unsightly and clumsy artificial stumps yet she became a champion athlete and long jumper, setting world records at the 1996 Paralympics in the 100 metres, the 200 metres and the long jump.

She has also forged a lucrative career as a model, starring in numerous catwalk shows and appearing on the cover of fashion magazines. People magazine has listed her as one of the world’s top 50 beauties.