Mick Jagger's girlfriend Melanie Hamrick isn't worried about the couple's 44-year age difference.
“I don't think about it,” Hamrick, 37, said in an interview. The Sunday Times Published on 22 September.
“Everyone will have their own opinion,” the former professional ballerina said. “If you care about other people's opinions, no matter where you are in life, you will have a problem and you will analyse it.”
“I close my eyes. Am I happy? Yes. Are the people in my life happy? Yes. Am I hurting anybody? No. Well, they can mind their own business,” Hamrick said.
Jagger, 81, met his current girlfriend at a Rolling Stones concert in Tokyo in February 2014. Hamrick, 26 at the time, got tickets to the show as an American Ballet Theatre dancer.
Hamrick recalled that Jagger greeted him with a fist bump when they met backstage.
The following month, Jagger's girlfriend of 13 years, fashion designer L'Wren Scott, died by suicide. That summer, Jagger began dating Hamrick.
Hamrick told the Sunday Times that she wasn't very impressed with Jagger when their relationship began.
“Ballet dancers meet some of the biggest stars and are like, 'Who are you?' Because, to us, ballet dancers are gods. That's who you study and idolize. You're in your own world,” he explains.
The interview also revealed that the couple splits their time between a rented townhouse in New York City and a chateau along the Loire River in France, where their 7-year-old son, Deveraux, goes to school.
“Mick can’t stay in one place, and so am I,” Hamrick said. “I say, ‘I want to stay in one place.’ Then two weeks later, I’m like, ‘Where are we going?’”
Jagger and Hamrick Devereaux Welch In 2016.
“Melanie Hamrick and Mick Jagger's son was born today in New York and they are both overjoyed,” a rep for the couple said in a statement at the time. “Mick was at the hospital at the time of the arrival. Mother and baby are healthy and we request that the media respect their privacy at this time.”
Jagger has a total of eight children: daughter Caris, 53, with actress Marsha Hunt; Jade, 52, with ex-wife Bianca Jagger; sons James, 39, and Gabriel, 26, and daughters Elizabeth, 40, and Georgia May, 32, with ex-wife Jerry Hall; and son Lucas, 25, with Luciana Jimenez Morad.
Last year, Jagger and Hamrick sparked engagement rumors after she was spotted wearing a promise ring.
“I mean, I have to laugh because did Mick give me a ring? Yes. Is it for that finger? Yes,” she explained People In June 2023.
“But are we like these horny teenagers where we're giving each other … in my mind, it's a promise ring. We'll be immature and call it a promise ring,” Hamrick said.
When asked if she sees herself marrying Jagger, Hamrick said, “I don't know. I'm kind of a live-in-the-moment kind of person, so who knows.”
