GREAT-GRANDFATHER MICK JAGGER BECOMES A DAD FOR THE EIGHTH TIME

Great-grandfather Mick Jagger has become a father for the eighth time on Thursday (December 8th) with the birth of his fourth son to ballerina girlfriend Melanie Hamrick in New York City. The Daily Mail posted that a statement was issued by Jagger's reps saying, "Melanie Hamrick and Mick Jagger's son was born today in New York and they are both delighted. Mick was at the hospital for the arrival. Mother and baby are doing well and we request that the media respect their privacy at this time.'

In 2014, Mick Jagger became great-grandfather through his daughter Jade Jagger. The baby is 24-year-old granddaughter Assisi Jackson's first child. 45-year-old Jade is Mick's second daughter and only child from first wife Bianca, whom he was married to from 1971 to 1980. Jagger has a total of seven children from four different relationships; daughter Karis, 46 is his firstborn with actress/singer Marsha Hunt; Elizabeth, 31, James, 30, Georgia, 23, and Gabriel, 18 with second wife, model Jerry Hall, and Lucas, 16, from his relationship with model and TV personality Luciana Gimenez.

• Mick Jagger says that the ultimate job of any parent is rear their kids to being fully self-sufficient: "The thing is about children is just teaching them to be independent, look after themselves. That's the challenge. That's the whole idea of it, it is that they are helpless at the (laughs) beginning, and then as they go on, and they learn to feed themselves and it's hard, sort of, letting go as a parent with that. That's one of the problems that's actually the parent's problem, is y'know, letting go of the child to some extent."