aLONDON: The 32-year-old actress Pia Glenn explains her relationship with the acclaimed 61-year-old author Salman Rushdie as a “meeting of the minds”.

According to dailymail.co.uk, Glenn in her first interview after the relationship became public said, “I’m a very frank, realistic person. It’s a multifaceted thing. Neither of us is blind and, of course, it is physical but it isn’t only or mostly about looks.”

Along with the 29-year age gap, there is also a height difference between the couple. Rushdie is five feet 10 inches and Glenn is six feet four inches in heels.

Glenn said, “I think he is a genius, genius novelist and he thinks I am smart and that’s the biggest thing, the aphrodisiac. With other men, I have had to hide that side of myself because I felt if I came off too smart, I’d be ostracised. This is a good old-fashioned romance but the

attraction started as a meeting of minds.”