Kiedis ready to marry

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis is finally ready to end his womanising ways, settle down and get married.

After years of playing the field, the 43-year-old realised he'd changed when his girlfriend left him and he fell apart.

Kiedis - whose former conquests include supermodel Heidi Klum - says: "Today I feel like I'd like to get married and have a family. More so than ever. I really don't think I was capable of being that guy until about two months ago.

"A bomb went off inside me a few months ago. I broke up with a girl that I was really into. I started wondering why the break-up happened and I realised it was because of some of my own character defects - the feeling of wanting things you don't have.

"The minute I started seeing how these defects of character were controlling and dominating my life, they vanished. Suddenly I didn't think the grass was going to be greener, I didn't feel like I wanted something that I didn't have. I actually went back to that girl and patiently waited to see if she was willing to give it another go.

"Now I'm quite content to marry this girl and have a family - if that's something she's into as well."