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Heather Mills hospitalized in Austria after ski accident

Heather Mills attends the Achilles Hope and Possibility Race in Central Park on June 27, 2010, in New York. Getty Images

(CBS) - Heather Mills, Paul McCartney's ex-wife, was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering a shoulder injury during a ski accident in Austria.

Mills crashed on the Moelltaler glacier and was flown by helicopter to a hospital in the southern city of Lienz where she was diagnosed with a fractured right shoulder blade, hospital spokesman Alfred Fast said.

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She was discharged from the hospital midmorning Thursday after receiving treatment and is expected to make a full recovery.

Mills, who uses a prosthetic leg, recently bought a house in southern Austria and is training there for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, local media reported.

Broadcaster ORF quoted Mills as saying that she crashed into a plastic pole that had turned as hard as steel due to the cold.

But she seemed to take it in stride.

"That's skiing, you know," ORF quoted her as saying.

Mills, a former model, married ex-Beatle McCartney in 2002. They divorced in 2008.

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