Coleen Rooney acknowledges her relationship with husband Wayne has “obviously changed” over the years as she revealed the couple having “ups and downs”.
Coleen and Wayne are childhood sweethearts after meeting as teenagers. They tied the knot in 2008 and share four sons – Kai, 16, Klay, 12, Kit, 10, and eight year old Cass.
The WAG believes it’s inevitable that their relationship has evolved during the time they’ve known each other, which now spans more than 20 years.
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Speaking to the Times, Coleen, 39, said: “Obviously it’s changed with age and children coming on board and career changes.
“You have your ups and downs, you have things that happen in life. But I think being together from a young age, we know each other inside and out,” reports the Mirror.
“We’re a team. So no, I wouldn’t say we’ve changed. I would say things around us have changed.”
Coleen, who turns 40 next month, and Wayne had known each other since they were just 12 as they hailed from the same area of Liverpool. But they had only been romantically linked for a few months when Wayne netted his first Premier League goal for Everton, days before his 17th birthday.
It made him the competition’s youngest ever scorer at the time and thrust both of them into the spotlight.
She recognises that her children will have vastly different opportunities to those experienced by her and Wayne as the Rooneys are marketable celebrities. The former England striker is on a two-year, £800,000 BBC contract following some unsuccessful managerial spells.
Meanwhile, Coleen allegedly earned £1.5million from her time in the I’m A Celeb jungle but declined an invitation to participate in Celebrity Traitors.
She revealed to The Times: “I love watching The Traitors. But I don’t know whether I could be that fake.
“If I was a traitor and I was lying to them, in my head I’d be thinking, ‘Oh, I’d hate people to think that’s what I was like in real life, just like scamming people.'”
Elsewhere, Coleen recently encountered King Charles at a reception celebrating the remarkable contributions of carers – and she has deeply personal motivations for discussing this with the monarch.
She possesses first-hand understanding of carer life as her sister, who passed away aged just 14 in 2013, needed extensive care.
Rosie was taken in by Coleen’s parents when she was two and faced a lifelong struggle with the rare brain condition Rett Syndrome.
The disorder impacts approximately one in 10,000 baby girls and can cause symptoms including loss of motor skills, feeding difficulties and seizures.
Coleen discussed her affection for Rosie in her documentary, Coleen: The Real Wagatha Christie Story, broadcast 10 years following Rosie’s passing. She described Rosie as “the sister that I never thought I was going to have”.
She continued: “She brought that little bit extra to the house. We fell in love with her.”
