A Girl from Nicaragua
Jagger was born Blanca Pérez-Mora Macias in Managua, Nicaragua, on May 2nd, 1945. Her father was a successful import-export merchant, and her mother was a stay-at-home mom. When she was 10, her parents divorced, and she ended up staying with her mother, who took care of her and her two siblings on a relatively small income.
Bianca Marcus (Jagger). Photo by Norman Potter / Associated Newspapers / Shutterstock
At the age of 16, she legally changed her name from Blanca to Bianca. She was interested in politics and philosophy from an early age. She went on to earn a scholarship to study political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies in France. Bianca was also influenced by the non-violent success of Gandhi and the eastern philosophy in general. She would travel to India often.