Mick Jagger is engaged to Melanie Hamrick

Paint it white and one thing blue: Mick Jagger is engaged to his longtime companion Melanie Hamrick.

Hamrick, 37, a retired ballerina and choreographer, confirmed that she and The Rolling Stones musician, 81, have been engaged for about “two or three years” now throughout a current interview with French publication Paris Match.

“Possibly at some point we’ll marry, perhaps not,” Hamrick said. “We’re so joyful in our present life that I’d be too afraid to vary something.”

The couple met in 2014 in Japan, when Jagger was touring with the Stones and Hamrick with the American Ballet Theatre, respectively, and started relationship that yr. When requested if there was a right away spark, Hamrick advised the French outlet, “Possibly a spark, however nothing unbelievable, like, ‘Come on, I will blow your thoughts and we’ll journey the world.'”

“We didn’t even exchange phone numbers,” Hamrick added. “On the time, I wasn’t in a relationship, however he was.”

Jagger was beforehand married to former actress and activist Bianca Jagger. They break up in 1978 after seven years of marriage. Previous to his relationship with Hamrick, Jagger dated the late mannequin and stylist L’Wren Scott, who died in early 2014. The musician shares one baby, an 8-year-old son named Deveraux, with Hamrick and can be dad to seven different kids with earlier companions.

The 44-year age hole between Jagger and Hamrick has impressed a lot public dialogue, however the duo drown out the noise. “I don’t think about it,” Hamrick told The Times last year. “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. I put the blinders on. Am I happy? Yes. Are the people in my life happy? Yes. Am I hurting anyone? No. Okay, they can mind their own business.”