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| Ten Thousand Motels |
14 March 2006
WOULD I GO TO MICK'S WEDDING IF HE GOT MARRIED AGAIN? I DOUBT IT
By Emily Miller
Mirror.co.uk
THE legs, the locks, the looks... Jerry Hall has spent 30 tireless years exploiting her assets.
Along with an explosive marriage to rock legend Mick Jagger, she has ruled catwalks, entranced theatres and fronted charity campaigns, all while raising four children.
But the indomitable Texan was suddenly stopped in her tracks when she came down with glandular fever almost five months ago. And the 49-year-old is still suffering.
"I caught it from my son, who's 20," Jerry says, amazed that she, a middle-aged mum, had the teenage "kissing disease".
"While I nursed James I was fine but then, a few weeks later, I got sick, too. I was really ill," she sighs, recalling the ordeal that forced her to pull out of the West End show High Society in October.
"Then it turned into post-viral fatigue, which knocked me out for a few months. I still get really tired. It's boring, you know? And it can last for yeeeeeaars..."
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Her drawl drifts into silence and she rolls her eyes. "I'm not quite recovered and it's a strain but I've started taking vitamin shots, which have been a fantastic tonic."
Cosy in a knitted top and stretch pants, Jerry flashes her famous smile. It's not all bad news. There's a man on the scene, the kids are "wonderful" and even Rolling Stone Jagger's antics are something she can joke about.
"He's not the marrying kind," is her mild comment on the 62-year-old's rumoured engagement to L'Wren Scott, a 6ft former Pretty Polly model.
In January, stylist L'Wren, 38, swanned into a Paris fashion show with a gleaming jewelled ring on her left hand. Tongues wagged but Jerry remains non-plussed.
"I don't think they're engaged, no," she says. "She just works for some jewellery company."
Savvy Jerry knows her ex-husband is a serial seducer. Since they split in 1999, he has had a string of women, including English rose Sophie Dahl and Brazilian model Luciana Morad, with whom he had a son after their one-night stand.
If Mick took the plunge and married L'Wren, it might put a stop to his woman-ising but would Jerry don a hat and turn up to see him tie the knot?
"No, I doubt it," she says. "The children might go. They spend time with their father and she's there. I've met her and she seemed very nice." Earlier this year, energetic Jagger helped draw two million fans to a Rolling Stones spectacular in Rio de Janeiro and, although he's almost eligible for his bus pass, the rocker was fired up and capering about like a youngster.
But back at home, his ex-wife still doesn't feel 100 per cent. On our interview day, she slept straight through lunch and doctors can't say when she'll be back on form.
Nevertheless, she has found comfort in her tranquil home life.
"I'm very content these days," she says, "I wake up in my lovely house, knowing I have lovely children and I'm in a good mood. I think it's the best time of my life actually."
What's more, she's dating. So who's the lucky man? "Just dating," comes her coy reply.
Now less eager to seek the spotlight, the former glamour queen just wants to enjoy life's simple pleasures. "Before, I was so busy modelling and acting, and this and that.
"It was such a shame I had to drop out of my play but now I have more time and am really enjoying all the things to do with being round the house.
"I've always liked tending plants, baking - a favourite of mine is banana nut bread - and I've starting doing needle-point..."
She laughs, aware it's an unlikely pastime for one of the world's original rock chicks. She has had her fun, stepping out with multi-millionaire banker Tim Attias, explorer Benedict Allen and acclaimed Hollywood producer George Waud. Prince Azim of Brunei was so stunned by Jerry on stage in The Graduate that he gave her a diamond tennis bracelet.
After divorcing Jagger in a settlement worth £10million, Jerry stayed in their swanky £5million mansion in Richmond, London. "But you don't need a lot of money to enjoy family," she insists.
Jerry's daughter Elizabeth has a lucrative contract with Lancome but the 22-year-old still chooses to spend weekends at home.
The same goes for James, who returns from film school whenever he gets the chance.
GEORGIA May, 14, and eight-year-old Gabriel are used to a fixed family routine.
"I like us having meals together," says Jerry. And she likes them at 6pm sharp, with knives and forks, and nice manners.
"It's important not to have too much division between the adults and the children," she adds.
"So when the kids come home from school - on the weekends and things - they love to bake and get out the flour and all the other ingredients. It's so much fun."
This is all a long way from the flippant recipe Jerry once gave for a successful marriage: "You have to learn to be a cook in the kitchen, a maid in the parlour and a whore in bedroom."
Today, a mellower Jerry smiles. "I'd rather hire the first two and do the last bit myself.
"I do have a cook but baking is sexy, you know? I know guys who bake and it makes me weak at the knees when they do that... all covered in flour."
Boyfriends used to woo her with romantic meals, she reveals. "It was great, just so lovely."
But macho Jagger rarely cooked up a storm. "Sometimes he'd cook but not really properly and not that often."
It's a gentle rebuke but nothing bitter. Jerry has moved on to new men and believes cooking is a top seduction tool.
"Guys love it when you bake a pie just for them. They say: 'Wow, you've baked this all for me.' It's amazing how they get so much pleasure out of it.
"But when you get older and you're a woman as lazy as me, you have to watch your calories."
She rolls her eyes and sweeps her hair away from her face.
Cakes can really pile on the pounds, she admits. And the alarm bells ring when her trousers get too tight.
"I use my tight jeans to keep a check on it - they always tell you when you've got to watch it a bit," she says.
Today's Jerry may have to try just a little harder to stay svelte, which may be why she has signed up for a baking campaign with the makers of Splenda sweetener.
But that doesn't mean she's not up for neighbourly chats over a cuppa.
"I often have coffee with my friend across the street," she says. It's just what any woman approaching 50 might say. But then she lets something slip about her social set...
"He's called Pete Townsend," she reveals, naming The Who's veteran guitarist. It seems the good times are still rolling.
Jerry Hall is the face of Splenda's campaign to encourage Britons to get back to baking. See her low-cal recipes at www.splenda.co.uk
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| Jumacfly |
Jerry come to Jumy  |
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| Break The Spell |
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Jerry come to Jumy
If you date her, remember to leave your coldplay cd's at home. |
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| Voodoo Scrounge |
I think shes hideous
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| Jumacfly |
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If you date her, remember to leave your coldplay cd's at home.
I dont have any Coldplay record mate!!
Does any Manic Street Preachers cd count?? |
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| Voodoo Scrounge |
Nothing wrong with the manics mate! |
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| Jumacfly |
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If you date her, remember to leave your coldplay cd's at home.
I got a manic street preachers and a terrorvision cd, hope it doesn t count for her! |
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Jumacfly wrote:
I got a manic street preachers and a terrorvision cd, hope it doesn t count for her!
She's never commented on them, just make sure you're not too over-sensitive, that was also in her turn off list. |
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| Jumacfly |
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She's never commented on them, just make sure you're not too over-sensitive, that was also in her turn off list.
Don't worry I can bang her wildly too! |
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| Break The Spell |
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Jumacfly wrote:
Don't worry I can bang her wildly too!
Good luck bro, she's got that wild Texas blood in her. I wish you best of luck... |
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| Jumacfly |
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Break The Spell wrote:
Good luck bro, she's got that wild Texas blood in her. I wish you best of luck...
you mean she likes spanking??  |
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Jumacfly wrote:
you mean she likes spanking??
For 20 years, she had to keep Mick in line somehow. |
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| Jumacfly |
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Break The Spell wrote:
For 20 years, she had to keep Mick in line somehow.
www.maxfisch.com |
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www.maxfisch.com
Lovely stuff. I'm sure you'll take great care of Jerry. Tell Lizzy I said hey... |
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