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People are often amazed to hear that, three years ago,I delivered my first granddaughter, Ezra, myself.My daughter, Assisi, had a home birth, just like I didwhen I had her. Over the course of her 72-hour labour,I held her hand as we walked around the Cornish countrysideand breathed with her through the contractions, while herpartner Alex, sister Amba and the rest of the family anxiouslywaited to meet the new arrival – a professional midwife onhand to allay their concerns. All of this might have been slightlyeasier to handle if I hadn’t been almost nine months pregnantmyself. But I suppose that’s the sort of thing that happens whenyour family doesn’t worry too much about convention.I was just out of my teens when I gave birth to Assisi, withAmba following three years later. At that point, I was stillyoung and naive enough to have no real fears about becominga mother – or much else, really. My parents, Mick and BiancaJagger, had divorced when I was a child, and I’d lived a splitexistence between the London of Cheyne Walk and the NewYork of Warhol’s Factory. It was shortly after I left boardingschool in Wiltshire that I met Piers, Assisi and Amba’s father,and we began our own family together when I was 20.As it turned out, motherhood came naturally to me – andit gave me a sense of clarity and focus that had been missingfrom my life. Piers and I split our time between London anda house in Dorset, working as artists and staging exhibitionstogether while raising our babies. Eventually, we parted ways,and my daughters began to grow up – as did I. I founded myown business and travelled more than ever to far-flungdestinations around the world. I was keen for my daughtersto explore and experience as much as I did from a young >TIESTHATBINDThe Jagger clan has neverbeen conventional but it is close,writes Jade Jagger – who becamea mother for the third time and agrandmother for the first within weeks.Photographs by Sean Thomas.Styling by Poppy Kain