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..