21 November 2023 , 20:32
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Coleen Rooney has told of how she failed to realise husband Wayne was also struggling as she suffered the heartbreak of a miscarriage.
The 37-year-old said she only realised the former England and Manchester United striker’s pain when he told her: “It’s hard for me as well.” Now, Coleen, who has had two miscarriages, is urging people to also consider men’s mental health when women go through the ordeal. She told the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast: “Wayne really struggled with it and that’s where I feel like I need to say it’s not just all about the women. We need to take care of the men as well. I do feel like they get forgotten about a lot. Wayne, at one point, he did say, ‘I know it’s hard for you but it’s hard for me as well’. It wasn’t until he said that I realised, ‘You’re right, it is, you wanted the baby just as much, if not more than me’.”
Coleen and Wayne with their children Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass (@ coleen_rooney/Instagram)Coleen – who now has sons Kai, 14, Klay, 10, Kit, seven, and Cass, five, with Wayne, 38 – miscarried in her first pregnancy after starting to bleed before reaching the 12-week scan. She also tells about the experience in new book My Account and added: “It was heartbreaking. This is the first time I’ve spoken publicly about it. I feel like the time’s right now. “We’d just been married, it was a happy time, we wanted a family but it didn’t work out. It has worked now.”