Melanie Hamrick may be engaged to one of the most famous rock stars on the planet, but that doesn’t mean she’s willing to treat her private life like an open book.
“I think family is so personal, and it’s a bubble,” Hamrick, 37, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, May 8, while attending the NYC Ballet Spring Gala at the David H. Koch Theater in New York.
“It’s nice to share things, but it’s like the ballet: there needs to be a mystery or people are going to get sick of you,” she added with a laugh.
The evening’s performance included the use of masks and highlighted the allure of mystery. When asked what she likes to keep mysterious as a public figure, Hamrick — a former ballet dancer herself — reiterated: “My private life.”
“I love the Kardashians, however I’m not as comfortable in public,” she continued.
True to form, Hamrick has managed to keep details of her age-gap romance with Mick Jagger relatively out of the public eye. In April, Hamrick confirmed her engagement to the Rolling Stones frontman, 81, in April, revealing to Paris Match that Jagger actually proposed “two or three years” earlier.
“Maybe one day we’ll marry, maybe not,” Hamrick told the outlet at the time. “We are so happy in our current life that I would be too afraid to change anything.”
Jagger and Hamrick met in 2014 after a Rolling Stones concert in Tokyo after she and her fellow members of the American Ballet Theatre received complimentary tickets to the show. The pair, who are 44 years apart in age, started dating shortly after in 2015.
“Everyone’s going to have their opinion,” Hamrick told The Sunday Times in September 2024 of their significant age difference. “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.”
While Hamrick has no time to worry about other people’s opinions, she will make time in her schedule for a good theme party.
“I’m on the board of New York City Ballet. I was a dancer in American Ballet Theater, and it’s just fun to go to all the events,” she explained to us, adding that Thursday’s event was “probably” the best theme party she has ever attended.
“It’s my first big theme party,” she added.
