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Melanie Hamrickisn’t ready to stop traveling the world withMick Jaggerand their little boy just yet.
In an interview withThe Times Magazinereleased Sunday, the rocker’s longtime girlfriend, 36, opened up about juggling her schedule as a working mom to sonDeveraux, 6, as she embarks on the next chapter of her career — debuting her first novel,First Position,a ballet-based romance that the former professional dancer says kept her connected to the art after letting it go to focus on family.
“Mick would say, ‘Enough with telling these stories from the ballet — you’ve got to write them down,'” she said.
Detailing the family’s “magical” travels to the outlet, she noted that the pair prefers to live “just full nomad” with sonDeveraux, 6,
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Other friends who are parents have warned the couple that their son will probably want to settle in and connect with friends in the short years to come.
“But I enjoy this schedule. I don’t want to be tied down," Hamrick said. “London’s my favorite city, so hopefully one day in the future we’ll end up based here, but until then, I’m going to just keep going.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Hamrick talked about how she found balancing motherhood and her ballet career increasingly difficult until she made the decision to bow out of professional dance.
Recalling that she was up for a promotion from corps de ballet to soloist, Hamrick recalled thinking “If I told them I was pregnant, I wouldn’t get the promotion.”
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She danced up until she was five months pregnant with the blessing of her doctors until a fall on stage caused her to pump the brakes.
“I was taking care of myself, feeling invincible, but I pushed it too hard and I fell during a show and needed to evaluate,” she said, admitting she waited another month to tell the ballet company, from which she only received four weeks maternity pay.
The pressure to get back on stage after giving birth to Dev led her to go back to the gym and ballet just two weeks after a cesarean section.
Although she returned to shows just five months postpartum, she knew traveling with Dev would be tricky.
By Dev’s third birthday, the mom decided to walk away after feeling she “pushed too hard” and had “burnt out.”
“And I hate that, because I want there to be more mothers in ballet,” she said, adding, “Being a mum, finding a life outside the ballet, having a partner outside the ballet, having a child and seeing the more well-rounded picture,” changed her perspective.
“They don’t pay enough for me to be breaking my back like this… I still loved performing, but I love my son more.”
source: people.com
