Rampling I’m ready for new man at 71
Actress Charlotte Rampling is ready to find love again, saying she’s “an animal that needs a mate”.
The screen star, 71, lost her long- time par tner Jean-Noel Tassez to cancer two years ago.
She sa id : “I wa nt somebody to love. For the first time since Jean-Noel died, I’m yearning to build something with someone new.
“I want all that again. I’m an animal that needs a mate and I know it’s going to happen because I really want it to.”
The Oscar- nominated actress, who was famed for her beauty when she shot to stardom in the 60s, said the pressures surrounding appearance were more difficult for today’s women.
She said: “What these girls go through now is much wo rs e . We we re n ’ t constantly thinking about our own image.
“Now these girls just have one goal and that’s to have an image: they want celebrity, they want to be on the red carpet, they want to ‘ be there’. But where?”
Rampling said she wanted to see her face ageing and is not tempted by plastic surgery.
She said: “My face could do with having a few things done to it but I won’t touch it.
“I’d like to see my face get very old. I’m curious to see where it’ll go.
“Although I’d probably look ‘prettier’ without great heavy lines and with it all tightly pulled back, that’s not what I want to look like.”