Mick Jagger’s girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, is not concerned about the couple’s 44-year age difference.
“I don’t think about it,” Hamrick, 37, said in an interview with The Sunday Times published Sept. 22.
“Everyone’s going to have their opinion,” the former professional ballerina added. “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 analyze 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,” Hamrick said.
Jagger, 81, met his current girlfriend in February 2014 at a Rolling Stones concert in Tokyo. Hamrick, then 26, got tickets to the show as an American Ballet Theatre dancer.
Hamrick recalled that Jagger greeted her 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. Jagger started dating Hamrick that summer.
Hamrick told The Sunday Times that she was not starstruck by Jagger when their relationship started.
“Ballet dancers meet some of the biggest stars and act, like, ‘Who are you?’ Because, to us, ballet dancers are the gods. That’s who you study and look up to. You’re so in your world,” she explained.
The interview also revealed that the couple splits their time between a rented townhouse in New York City and a château on the Loire River in France, where their son Deveraux, 7, goes to school.
“Mick can’t stay put and I’m similar,” Hamrick said. “I’ll say, ‘I want to stay put.’ Then after two weeks, I’m, like, ‘Where are we going?’”
Jagger and Hamrick welcomed Deveraux in 2016.
“Melanie Hamrick and Mick Jagger’s son was born today in New York and they are both delighted,” said a rep for the couple in a statement at the time. “Mick was at the hospital for the arrival. Mother and baby are doing well and we request that the media respect their privacy at this time.”
Jagger has has eight children in all: daughter Karis, 53, with actress Marsha Hunt; Jade, 52, with his 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 Gimenez Morad.
Last year, Jagger and Hamrick sparked engagement rumors when she was seen wearing what turned out to be a promise ring.
“I mean, I have to giggle because did Mick give me the ring? Yes. Is it for that finger? Yes,” she told PEOPLE in in June 2023.
“But are we like, 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 added.
When asked if she sees herself marrying Jagger, Hamrick said, “I don’t know. I’m kind of like, a live-in-the-moment type of person, so who knows.”
