Jean`s other celebrated romance was with actor Terence Stamp. As one of the most beautiful couples among the trendy denizens of Carnaby Street, and other hang-outs of Mod London, the two seemed a perfect couple to outsiders, but Shrimpton dumped him, citing the actor`s narcissism. Stamp has said that the break-up pushed him into anguish and despair, while she was quoted in a newspaper interview saying she doubted he ever loved her.
Stamp, who was in the films Wall Street, Superman II, and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, was someone to whom she was attracted "because he was so good-looking." Later in her relationship with him she talked with Julie Christie about how his looks were almost intimidating and how it made it hard to be with him "because he is so beautiful." They had an intense affair from `64 through `66; interestingly, she says that throughout their relationship he was somewhat cold and distant and that for a lot of their relationship she was "besotted with him," but eventually she got to the point where she didn’t care whether she saw him or not. Here`s what she says in her 1990 autobiography:
"Terry and I were really only happy together when we were abroad and on holiday. In London, my life with him was empty. I was bored, and we must have been exceedingly boring to others. I found life trivial then, and looking back I do not understand why I stuck with it. We were so vain that we continued to dress ourselves up and go out to be looked at. Terry always looked amazing, and I had to look good to match, I was so insecure that I was always fiddling in the bathroom or running to the ladies to check my appearance. It was pathetic. Here I was, at the height of my fame, behaving like this. I was just an accessory to this beautiful star, and it was his beauty that I was in love with and that kept me with him -- not the man himself. I was under a spell, but had no energy to break it. In his autobiography Double Feature, Terry stresses constantly how much in love with me he was. I find that hard to believe. Perhaps it was true, but since he never communicated with me, how could I have known."
In his autobiography, Stamp says his "feelings were intensified, having tasted the loneliness of life without her. Grounded as I was in insecurity, I hoped I could, by some superhuman strength, pull it all together, and start anew, but somewhere deep in me, I knew I’d blown it. The oneness I’d experienced with her began surely and inexplicably to evaporate. As her independence emerged, so did the sense of alienation I feared so. The fear deepened the alienation. A vicious circle. Unable to contemplate life without her, I pushed her away."