Heather Mills sparkled attended the 2024 Vegan Women Summit in Hollywood on Thursday.
The former model, 56, looked incredible in a sparkly red jumpsuit as she embraced the red carpet ahead of the VIP reception at the Pacific Design Center.
Heather, a speaker at the event, commanded attention as she flaunted her statuesque physique in her figure-hugging Nadine Merabi garment, worth £325.
The VBites founder, who used to be married to Paul McCartney, revealed that she got changed for the event in a toilet, paired her sensational ensemble with a pair of towering platform heels.
After a long day at work, she opted for a casual hairstyle as she slicked her short blonde tresses back into a ponytail with a red hair tie.
Sir Paul McCartney ‘s ex-wife, Heather Mills, sparkled in a red jumpsuit at the 2024 Vegan Women Summit in Hollywood on Thursday
The former model, 56, looked incredible in her outfit as she embraced the red carpet ahead of the VIP reception at the Pacific Design Center
The blonde beauty, who has been vegan for 33 years, went all out for her makeup as she looked fabulous in full glam and a ruby red lip.
Speaking on the red carpet yesterday, the keynote speaker said: ‘My outfit, I picked up a few years ago, I don’t know where but I changed in the toilet because I have been working all day.
‘I am the main speaker tomorrow. We have exhibitions down here, so I created the first vegan burger 32 years ago.’
Heather was also nominated for Woman of the Year at The Vegan Women Summit Awards.
She revealed that her message to anyone who wanted to go vegan is: ‘Study and learn about nutrition and your health and don’t listen to the b******t about the word processed because it is just trying to get meat and dairy’.
According to their site: ‘The Vegan Women Summit Hollywood is a premiere global event, featuring the world’s leading CEOs, celebrities, investors, creators, and sustainability-minded consumers.’
Her outing comes just weeks after she revealed she was forced to ‘live off liquid food for three years’ after contracting Lyme Disease.
Heather detailed her health woes in a new interview in March 2024 and explained how the illness left her with a ‘burst appendix’ and ‘always in agony’ after the removal of her gallbladder.
Heather, a speaker at the event, commanded attention as she flaunted her statuesque physique in her figure-hugging Nadine Merabi garment, worth £325
The VBites founder paired her sensational ensemble with a pair of towering platform heels
The blonde beauty, who has been vegan for 33 years, went all out for the makeup as she looked fabulous in full glam makeup and a ruby red lip
Heather, who had her leg amputated after a car accident in 1993, has long since credited her strict diet for saving her life.
Speaking to The Telegraph she discussed saving her vegan business empire, VBites, from collapse after launching the company as a result of her own health struggles.
The activist was diagnosed with Lyme Disease after she returned from a mission in Cambodia with Katharine, Duchess of Kent in 1999.
Her outing comes just weeks after she revealed she was forced to ‘live off liquid food for three years’ after contracting Lyme Disease (pictured February 2024)
She told the publication: ‘They misdiagnosed it as dengue fever. It was actually Lyme Disease.
‘It wiped out my microbiome, my colon, everything. My appendix burst. Then they took my gallbladder out which they didn’t need to take out. So I suddenly couldn’t digest anything. So I had to live off liquid food for three years.
‘I was always in agony. I would lose complete control of my bowels and have to jump out of cars.’
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks, which are tiny spider-like critters.
The bugs can be found in every country in the UK, nearly all states in the US and across Europe and Asia. However, not every tick in the UK carries the disease.
Lyme disease is usually easier to treat the earlier it’s diagnosed, the NHS says.
Those with symptoms — such as a circular or oval shape rash around a tick bite, a fever, headache or muscle and joint pain — are usually prescribed antibiotics for up to 28 days.
Heather launched VBites in 1993 and it has been one of the leading manufacturers and wholesalers of plant-based meat and cheese in the UK.
The former model detailed her health woes in a new interview explaining how the illness left her with a ‘burst appendix’ and left her ‘always in agony’ after the removal of her gallbladder (pictured in 2019)
She publicly credited the vegan diet with saving her life after a car accident in 1993 left her needing her leg amputated – stating that abstaining from animal products dramatically improved her health.
She later received a prosthetic leg and resumed her modelling career.
She confessed in 2018: ‘I didn’t go vegan for the animals or the environment it was just after I lost my leg and the infection was spreading.’
In January, Heather rescued her vegan food empire in a last-minute £1m deal – after blaming the meat industry for the collapse of her business.
After it’s launch in 1993 it went on to become one of the leading manufacturers and wholesalers of plant-based meat and cheese in the UK but faced challenges in recent years due to Brexit and rising energy costs.
In December, the mother-of-one, who lives in Sussex, announced that VBites had gone into administration, which put 112 jobs at risk two weeks before Christmas.
On her website, Heather hit out at the meat industry for also triggering a decline in sales.
The businesswoman wrote: ‘Sadly VBites ultimately fell victim to the galvanised misinformation currently being undertaken by the meat and dairy industries as well as the corporate greed in our market.
‘Brexit has been an utter disaster for the supply and maintenance of the sector and the government doubtless has a lot to answer for.’
As The Grocer reports, the ex model has bought the assets from the collapsed VBites business from administrators in a rescue deal that is worth £1m.
She was married to Sir Paul McCartney from 2002 until 2008
She credited the vegan diet with saving her life and launched VBites in 1993 (pictured in September 2019)
The rescue deal has reportedly covered the company’s assets, including their factories in Northamptonshire and County Durham.
Although it did not extend to the 64 members of staff who were made redundant, the businesswoman has promised to rehire 40 of her workers.
Heather claims VBites – which once had a cafe in Hove – was forced into administration ‘unnecessarily’ and only given three days notice.
She wrote: ‘This is why I have chosen to resurrect the company myself, at great personal expense, and take control of the operations, personally moving back to the North East to ensure we are still able to make a positive contribution to the future of our global food economy.’