Coleen Rooney candidly opens up on family struggles - 'I threw myself on the bed sobbing'
I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! star Coleen Rooney has revealed how she was left "sobbing" after giving birth to her son. The WAG, 38, got vulnerable on Thursday night's episode of the hit jungle programme. As talk in camp turned to parenting, Strictly's Oti Mabuse shared that she felt it wasn’t spoken about how overwhelming parenting for fathers must be too, Danny Jones added: “Seeing my wife go through that was kind of new.”
Speaking about his wife Georgia’s experience of childbirth, he said: “Looking back now, she had postnatal depression. That is so hard and what made it harder was she didn’t know.” Oti shared her own experience in a candid revelation, saying: “I just remember going to the shower and I was crying, I was just devastated but nothing was wrong. I had a new baby, the midwives were amazing, I was getting fed, my husband was there, like nothing was wrong but everything was wrong.”
Relating to what Oti had said, Coleen shared that a few days after she gave birth to son Kai, who she shares with footballer husband Wayne Rooney. “I just threw myself on the bed sobbing," she said. "But then I started thinking about other women who were less fortunate than me, so women on their own, single parents.”
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Coleen added: “The emotions just take over you. And also what I found hard is this baby is now your responsibility for life and where our life before that was quite spontaneous. Wayne never knew when he would get time off from week to week… We’d just do things in the spur of the moment whereas now life was a plan. We had to plan it out.”
Oti and Danny then bonded over their experience of the emotions of childbirth, with Oti saying of her husband Marius: “He needed to learn to be there for me emotionally. He tried to fix it.” Danny agreed, saying: “I wanted to try and fix it and say, ‘Come on you can do this!’ but that’s not what she needed.”
Coleen's candid admission comes days after she heartbreakingly revealed the toll that fame has taken on her and her famous husband Wayne’s family. The mum of four has previously revealed Wayne’s more romantic side, with him writing her poems on hotel stationery and the less-than-romantic location of his marriage proposal. She has also chatted about what it was like to be a 16-year-old schoolgirl whose photo was suddenly in the newspapers after Wayne became a well-known young footballer.
She and her fellow campmates were discussing the point at which they knew they were famous, and Coleen revealed that the hardest part of being recognised was the impact it had on her and Wayne’s four children: Kai, 15; Klay, 11; Kit, eight, and Cass, six.
“That’s the thing with kids I think, it’s hard to go on days out,” she said. “Kai told Wayne to stop coming to football games, when he played grassroots tournaments and stuff because he used to get swarmed and he couldn’t even watch the game.”
“How do you say to all of these kids, ‘Go away, I’m watching my son?’ Adults it’s different, you could speak to them, so Kai just said, ‘Oh, Dad, there’s no point you coming because you don’t even watch me play anyway,’ which is sad but it can’t be helped. At the same time, the fans help you along the way and get you where you are.”
