Mick Jagger Asked Me to Have His Baby.He's Family Now

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Marsha Hunt was the Sixties model who had Mick Jagger's child then dared to sue him in a paternity battle. Now fighting breast cancer, she tells Rebecca Hardy why the disease doesn't frighten her Marsha Hunt's astonishing halo of untamed hair made her something of a Sixties icon; a glamorous, exotic bloom among a generation of pallid flower children. She appeared nude in the musical Hair, inspired the Rolling Stones song Brown Sugar and, for a time, caught the roving eye of one of the members of the legendary rock band, giving birth to Mick Jagger's love child.

Today, the wonderful cloud of hair is gone, shaved off by her own hand shortly after surgeons removed her right breast. Marsha has breast cancer.

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Mick Jagger Asked Me to Have His Baby.He's Family Now

But she doesn't want pity; pity is for the weak and the self- absorbed.

Instead, she stands defiant, strong and magnificent in her baldness and her illness.

'Cancer is not a big word with me,' she says. 'People are very screwed up about cancer and very screwed up about dying. "Wellsy- dellsy" is what my mother used to say to make sure you didn't turn anything into a drama that didn't need to be a drama.

'Wellsy-dellsy is what I thought when the doctor examined the lump in my breast and said, "I think this is cancer." I said wellsy- dellsy a couple of times when I ...

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