Sounds like her new relationship may have been a Disney-fueled rebellion. Mills, however, didn't see their age difference as an issue at the time. She and Lawson had a son, Jason, and then they split in A few years later, Mills, who had once undergone such scrutiny for wedding a man 33 years her senior, turned the tables: While starring in a production of the play The King and I , she met Indian-American actor Firdous Bamji, who is 20 years her junior.
The two wed in , and, over two decades later, the marriage is still going strong. Interestingly, Mills' actress sister, Juliet, also has a partner who's 18 years her junior; the two have been married for close to 40 years now.
Maybe May-December romances run in the family? Bamji is known for his theater and film work, which includes appearances in 's The Sixth Sense and 's Unbreakable ; he and Mills presently divide their time between New York and London. Even though Hayley Mills was almost universally adored by the s, stardom was not easy for her — particularly as she began to age out of the little-girlish pluckiness of her early teens.
In the wake of her success in The Parent Trap , she became besieged by all the normal doubts of adolescence — but the pressures of fame exacerbated them. She began to struggle with weight and body image issues, first in the form of over-eating, and then in the form of bulimia. So you start to throw up, basically. And you just get more and more insecure about yourself, and don't tell anybody.
And, of course, I thought I was the only person in the world who had ever thought of it. Hayley Mills first dipped a toe in the thriller genre as a murder-witnessing child in Tiger Bay — before Pollyanna was even a blip on her radar. In , a few years post- Pollyanna and Parent Trap , she starred in The Chalk Garden , playing a disturbed teenager navigating a relationship with her even more disturbed governess Deborah Kerr.
That year, she starred in Twisted Nerve , an early psychosexual thriller directed by her then-husband Roy Boulting. She played a young woman who is stalked by a homicidal maniac in one memorable off-camera sequence, he hacks up Mills' onscreen mother with a hatchet — eek! The New York Times called the film "an embarrassing picture, a sour-tasting mess," yet it's hard to look away from the movie's campy but compelling trailer. In , she starred in Deadly Strangers , which tells the story of a beautiful, disturbed girl who becomes involved, in all innocence, with two disturbed, perverted young men who intend to do her harm.
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Despite her comeback and the fact that it was very welcomed, her status was somewhat diminished as Disney had moved on by this time and was exploring new venues. Mills has had a rather interesting life thus far and has proven herself to be a very surprising person. She was married for the first time in to a man more than twice her age, but divorced just six years later. They had a son together, and eventually he became a rock star for a band called Kula Shaker. She had a second son during a relationship with another actor, Leigh Lawson.
As of she was and still is in relationship with Firdous Bamji, who is 20 years younger than she is. In she was diagnosed with breast cancer and credits her survival to several alternative treatments that she decided to try.
Star Wars, Goonies, Game of Thrones, from fantasy to science fiction to the dramatic and silly, Tom is all about the greatest and most insane stories that can be found. If you have any concerns about the accuracy of our content, please reach out to our editors by e-mailing editors bestlifeonline. Hayley Mills was one of Hollywood's most famous child actors of the s. She starred in some of the era's biggest films, including That Darn Cat! It also should have given her a major payday, but as Mills recounts in her new memoir Forever Young , which comes out on Sept.
Read on to find out how Mills, now 75, was nearly broke and about her decade-long fight to get her money back. Mills grew up in the entertainment industry in the U. He co-starred with his daughter in her debut feature, Tiger Bay, in That movie led her to ink a deal with Disney, which included the lead role in Pollyanna a year later and then The Parent Trap in Mills soon received an honorary Juvenile Academy Award , an honor that had previously been given to child luminaries including Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
Mills' film career flourished at Disney over the next six years, and her star continued to rise, but her roles were limited to safe ingenue parts, and she eventually left the studio to take more mature parts.
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