From Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively to Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, so many couples in Hollywood have some shocking age gaps. And while some of them might have spoken out about it, others bask in their love and pay no mind to all the haters.
For Mick Jagger and his longtime girlfriend Melanie Hamrick, for example, their 44-year age gap has proved to be no big deal in their relationship.
“I don’t think about it,” Hamrick, who’s an author and retired ballerina, said of their age difference in The Times. “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 analyze it.”
As a result, Hamrick, who shares 7-year-old son Deveraux with Jagger, pays no mind to the attention. “I put the blinders on,” she said. “Am I happy? Yes. Are the people in my life happy? Yes. Am I hurting anyone? No. OK, they can mind their own business.” Fair enough!
Also in the interview, Hamrick looked back at when she and Jagger first met at a Rolling Stones concert in Tokyo in 2014. At the time, Hamrick was 26 while Jagger was 40.
According to her, what set her apart was perhaps how little she cared that he was the Mick Jagger. “Ballet dancers meet some of the biggest stars and act, like, ‘Who are you?’ Because, to us, ballet dancers are the gods,” she explained. “That’s who you study and look up to. You’re so in your world.”
Hamrick and Jagger were an item a few months later and have been together ever since. In July, Hamrick even shared a sweet gallery on Instagram of the two with their son. “Happy Birthday babe !!” she wrote in the caption. “We love you 🥰 ❤️.”
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