Women everywhere have a right to be envious of Heather Mills. She's accomplished, beautiful, committed and has a man who fancies her enough to make her a vegetarian breakfast every morning ... a guy who just happens to be Sir Paul McCartney. Mills is sleek and tall, dressed in an off-the-shoulder lace print peasant blouse, white slim pants and open-toed white wedge heels--a complete of-the-moment look. Talking with her is like chatting with your best girlfriend. In fact, the first thing Mills told me was, "You look like one of my girlfriends. You really do ... it's quite amazing." She'll discuss any and everything--until you inevitably hit the touchy topic of her fiance's deceased wife. While McCartney is in Chicago with his Driving USA tour, Mills has business of her own here. She is trying to raise awareness about land mines and promote her appearance in a spring ad campaign for the INC International Concepts clothing line carried at Bloomingdale's. At the Whiskey Bar & Restaurant Wednesday, Mills leans forward in her chair, huddling close as if she's reveling secrets. She talks about the things friends share--fashion, books (she loves The Autobiography of Malcolm X), world causes, where to find a good pedicure (she favors the cheapest places in New York and L.A.), traveling and, of course, McCartney. "He has such childlike qualities," Mills, 34, says about the 59-year-old. "He's like Peter Pan. I am definitely the older one in the relationship. ... He's always joking and making fun and embarrassing me on the street, which we girls always like. He's honest and kind, and I love that. It's hard to find that in a man." She talks about his vegetarian gourmet skills (including those breakfasts), her affinity for the music of Richard Wagner (she used to hate it because her father played it constantly) and how she's trying to learn the titles to all the Beatles' songs and movies (her younger sister showed her up by remembering all their hits without missing a beat). But the sister-to-sister talk ends abruptly when she is asked how she helped McCartney get over the grief caused by the death in 1998 of his longtime wife, Linda. "I don't want to talk any more about us," she says, leaning back in her chair and folding her arms. "Because we are mainly here to talk about INC and the land mines. Normally, I wouldn't say anything else about us. I get offered hundreds and thousands to talk about us every day." The INC campaign marks the first time Mills has modeled since her accident in 1993, when a police motorcycle accident resulted in the loss of her left leg below the knee. INC partnered with Mills to raise awareness for Adopt-a-Minefield, a United Nations initiative committed to resolving the global land mine crisis--a cause close to her heart. There are more than 70 million land mines buried in countries such as Afghanistan, Vietnam and Mozambique, she says. While Americans might not have realized their impact before Sept. 11, they are learning it now as soldiers fight in Afghanistan, one of the countries littered with the toy-size devices. "American soldiers are in Afghanistan, and they are standing on them, risking their lives everyday," Mills says. Through the Heather Mills Trust, she provides artificial limbs to amputees. Her own silicone prosthesis, with a core of titanium, is amazingly lifelike, right down to the red-painted toenails. "It always looks great. I'll never have varicose veins, and I never have to shave it." Having an artificial limb doesn't seem to impair her physically or limit her fashionwise. Mills skis and swims and wears short dresses such as the waist-baring frock she wore to the Oscars. Although she turned up on several worst-dressed lists, she pays them no mind. "Who cares?" she says. "[The dress] was a bit sexy for me, but it put a message out for people with disabilities. If I wore a full-length gown, then nobody would know I didn't have some ugly, horrible, lumpy leg underneath. Whenever I wear a skirt with my legs out, it shows that amputees can get legs that look real. It shows you don't have to not be sexy or feminine.''

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