Alexandra Richards: 'I first realised dad was famous when my friends played the Rolling Stones at school'

Rock star offspring: Alexandra Richards is a model and DJ
Hello! Fashion Monthly / Iakovs Kalaitzakis
Jennifer Ruby3 April 2018
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Alexandra Richards said she first realised she had famous parents when her classmates started playing Rolling Stones songs at school.

The DJ and model, 31, is the youngest daughter of Keith Richards and model Patti Hansen.

“I grew up in a very public school [Western High School, Connecticut], and there was a lot of teasing going on. Kids would play Dad’s music in the playground,” she told Hello! Fashion Monthly.

“That’s when I really got it that dad was on the radio. The kids would be like, ‘My parents listened to your dad last night when they were cooking in the kitchen.'"

She toured the world with her parents and the Stones as a child — and still counts Ronnie Wood’s daughter Leah as a close friend, adding: “She was the one I always looked up to ... because she was a little bit older than us.”

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Richards took third and seventh grade off school. “For me it was a lot of growing and when I went back to Western Connecticut and I told all my friends where I’d been — it was just so different from what they were experiencing at that age.”

She got her first taste of modelling on a beach in Mustique for Tommy Hilfiger, aged 14 — and has since appeared in campaigns for Burberry, Dior and Abercrombie.

Read the full interview with Alexandra Richards in Hello! monthly 
Hello! Fashion Monthly / Iakovs Kalaitzakis

She added: “After that I was commuting from Connecticut to New York, modelling while trying to finish school and get my grades up.”

Now a full-time DJ in New York, Richards said she was inspired by her father’s music — as well as a passion for reggae.

Full interview is in the May issue of Hello! Fashion Monthly, on sale today

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