Simon le bon and wife12/7/2023 ![]() ![]() It's not as if I didn't give them love, I just felt that they needed boundaries. 'Yes, I was a real disciplinarian when they were little. She laughs when reminded that Amber once described her as 'a right dragon'. To cope, she developed the habit of nipping to the bathroom for a quick cry. 'Nobody can tear your heart apart within a couple of words like they can,' she says. The stress of their teenage years, combined with the pressure Yasmin put herself under as a working mother, pretty much tipped her over the edge. Yasmin is proud of all her daughters - not that they didn't put her through the wringer. Simon dropped out when the band took over, Yasmin was scouted in her home town of Oxford at 17, Amber started modelling after school and Tallulah went straight into work as a booker at Models 1, Yasmin's agency. She worked hard and now has a first-class BA in music performance.' Saffron is the only one in the family to have a degree. The day before we meet was Saffron's graduation from the University of West London: 'I'm so proud of her. The roles have reversed.' Simon's mum, 81-year-old Ann-Marie, lives in the house that backs on to theirs and there's constant traffic between the two. People come and go no one pays rent: 'Obviously, I am a hopeless businesswoman.' Yasmin has been told off 'by one of my daughters for not having enough house rules, which is hysterical. The current head count at Le Bon towers includes Yasmin's niece, Saffron's boyfriend and a friend of Tallulah's. Our house is a mad place people come and never leave.' They are pretty good at listening and giving advice. I'm completely open with them and we've got to the stage where if it's OK for them to offload on to me, it's OK for me to offload on them. While the superficial things in her life have changed, the big-ticket items have remained absolutely solid: her marriage to Simon, which has lasted 30 years her modelling career, which has endured even longer (this year she modelled for Giorgio Armani - 'Yes, I still get wheeled out!') her almost umbilical relationship with her daughters Amber, 27, Saffron, 25, and Tallulah, 22, who all, to Yasmin's gratitude, still live at home. Let's just live in the moment and enjoy it, please.' She defends Mick Jagger's impending fatherhood at 73 - 'People have been so rude about him, I find it really distasteful, so ageist' - and wonders if it really is hot in the room or whether she's having a hot flush. She talks as easily about the emotional power of the minor key as the antisocial nature of social media: 'I can't stand it when you're out to dinner with people and suddenly they see an Instagram opportunity. From where I'm sitting, I see clear olive skin, shining eyes, a rocking outfit (Sofie D'Hoore shirtdress, bright blue Christopher Kane trainers, neon yellow socks - 'I apply a bit of rock 'n' roll to everything') and a woman who segues intelligently between Brexit and boxsets - specifically Simon's annoying habit of watching them without waiting for her. She may claim to have wear and tear like the rest of us, but, quite frankly, only she has noticed. Things could explode.' She refers to herself as a woman of 'very few grey cells' and is only partly joking about the luxury retirement homes she's seen in a magazine for herself and Simon, 57. You have to be careful what knobs you pull and how hard you throw yourself down on the sofa. Her home, 'a big old double-fronted house' in Putney, Southwest London (she can't remember exactly how many bedrooms), is 'very lived in, to put it nicely. That whole emotional drain pushed me over the edge. I had been a punchbag for a long time and it was having an effect. She explained: 'Nobody can tear your heart apart within a couple of words like can. Yasmin, now 51, described how she would hide in the bathroom and cry when the strain of juggling motherhood with her demanding career proved too much. In a candid interview with The Mail on Sunday's You magazine, she said the 'drip feed' of life took its toll when the three daughters she has with Duran Duran star Simon Le Bon were teenagers. Married to a heart-throb rock star and with a successful career as one of the world's top supermodels, Yasmin Le Bon enjoys a lifestyle that has made her the envy of millions.īut today she reveals for the first time that, behind the facade of her gilded life, she sank into the depths of despair - finding herself in a 'dark place' and ultimately suffering a breakdown. Yasmin Le Bon said she found herself in a 'dark place' and ultimately suffered a breakdown. ![]()
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