“Hopefully, they approve of me.” Melanie Hamrick talks candidly about her relationship with Mick Jagger’s kids.
The elder children of Sir Mick Jagger, according to Melanie Hamrick, are “just a large happy crew” and she gets along with them.
According to Melanie Hamrick, she gets along well with Sir Mick Jagger’s elder kids, and “hopefully they like” her.
With a seven-year-old son named Deveraux, the 37-year-old author and the 81-year-old Mick have been together since 2014.
The Rolling Stones frontman is also parents to seven other children: sons James, 39, and Gabriel, 26, with his former longtime partner Jerry Hall; daughter Lucas, 25, with model Luciana Morad Gimenez; daughter Karis, 53, with actress Marsha Hunt; and daughter Jade, 52, with ex-wife Bianca Jagger.
She said: “Everyone’s going to have an opinion on everyone’s relationship when you’re in the spotlight. As I said recently I cut out the noise. Am I hurting anyone? No. Am I happy? Yes. Is my family happy? Yes. That’s really all that matters.”
Explaining what attracted her to the ‘Gimme Shelter’ singer and he to her, she added: “We met in Japan, both performing. That sums up our relationship, when everyone asks, ‘What do you guys have in common?’ I’m like, ‘We’re both performers.’ We understand each other’s worlds. I understand preparing to go on stage. I understand before performing the anxiety you might face. I think that sums up how we met.”
Mick and his Rolling Stones bandmates – which include Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – completed their ‘Hackney Diamonds Tour’ in North America in the summer and it is estimated that the singer’s energetic stage performances result in him running an average of 12 miles per night.
Melanie – who was a ballerina for the American Ballet Theatre for 15 years until she retired in 2019 – says Mick’s enthusiasm for performing and his rigorous exercise regime are a constant inspiration for her to be active and keep fit.
She said: “He’s up there dancing and running and exercising and I’m like, ‘Alright Melanie, take a ballet class.’ It’s really inspiring. Get out and move.”
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