Mandy Smith became known in the mid-1980s for her underage relationship with, and subsequent marriage to, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, who is 35 years her senior.
12 Facts About Mandy Smith
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Mandy Smith met Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman when she attended the BPI Awards with her older sister Nicola in 1984, while she was 13 years old.
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In 1986, Mandy Smith was to be interviewed on Irish television show Saturday Live, but cancelled when broadcaster Raidio Teilifis Eireann decided she would be interviewed from a seat in the audience rather than on the set.
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Mandy Smith had by this time developed health issues which she blamed on being on birth control pills since the age of 14, when she said her relationship with Wyman was illegally consummated; not long after the wedding, she weighed only 80 pounds.
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On 19 June 1993, Mandy Smith married footballer Pat Van Den Hauwe, but this marriage lasted only two years.
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Mandy Smith published a best-selling autobiography, It's All Over Now, in 1993.
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Mandy Smith later moved to Manchester to run a local public-relations company with her sister Nicola.
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Mandy Smith stated in 2010 that she was celibate at the age of 40 and had begun working with and counselling troubled teenagers.
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Mandy Smith recorded a hi-NRG cover of Twinkle's 1964 hit "Terry", but the highly publicised project was scrapped at the last minute in favour of an original composition, "I Just Can't Wait".
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An album, Mandy Smith, was released in 1988 and spawned more hits in European countries with songs like "Positive Reaction" and "Boys and Girls".
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Promotion for her final single, a cover of the Human League hit "Don't You Want Me", was cut short just as the track rose to be her highest-charting UK single, after Mandy Smith became seriously ill.
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Mandy Smith worked as a print and runway model for fashion designers including Katharine Hamnett.