Mick Jagger’s girlfriend Melanie Hamrick doesn't care about their 44-year age gap
Melanie Hamrick insists she never thinks about the 44-year age gap between her and her boyfriend, Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick Jagger, because she is happy and content with her life.
Sir Mick Jagger’s girlfriend Melanie Hamrick doesn't care about their 44-year age gap.
The former ballerina, 37, insists she just never thinks about The Rolling Stones singer being 81 and decades older than her.
She said: “Everyone’s going to have their opinion. If you think about others’ opinions, no matter where you are in life, you’re going to have a problem and you’re going to analyse it. I put the blinders on. Am I happy? Yes. Are the people in my life happy? Yes. Am I hurting anyone? No. OK, they can mind their own business.”
Mick and Melanie first met in Tokyo, Japan, in February 2014, at a Rolling Stones concert. All the American Ballet Theatre dancers, including Hamrick, received tickets for the show.
By the summer of that year, Jagger and Hamrick started a relationship, with the ballerina saying that she wasn't star-struck by the rock legend.
In an interview with The Sunday Times Magazine, she said: "Ballet dancers meet some of the biggest stars and act, like, ‘Who are you?’"
The couple had their son, Deveraux 'Devi' Jagger, now seven, in 2016. Almost three years after that, Hamrick retired from the dance company and, supported by Jagger, started writing and has now completed her second novel.
Recalling how Mick backed her book dream, she said: "I was, like, ‘I want to write a book. I want to write a book.’ And then, finally, he said, ‘Oh my God, write the book!’”
In her new novel, 'The Unraveling', main character Jocelyn Banks tries to find a rich patron, so she can continue at an elite ballet company and pay her bills. She then manages to find a handsome benefactor.
The book will be released on September 26, and follows the same style as Hamrick’s first novel 'First Position', in a universe full of orgies, affairs and “psycho ballet bitches”.
Listing her favourite words to describe the act of sex, she said: "Thrusting, throbbing, pulsating. Just go to the thesaurus. That’s what Mick said - he was, like, ‘Throbbing was used a lot in book two.’
“I find writing about sex scenes the easiest of all. It’s like choreographing a dance. It’s a movement and I’m writing movements down.”
By Leticia Sepulveda
