With bags of cash, luxury mansions, expensive holidays and top of the range cars, there's no denying that being a footballer's wife has its perks.
But the role also comes with a much darker side, as Louise Redknapp has revealed in her new autobiography following her divorce from former Liverpool star Jamie Redknapp.
From extreme loneliness to being forced to look on while cruel women make brazen moves on your husband, the star makes it refreshingly clear that marrying a footballer certainly isn't all Cartier bracelets and Gucci dresses.
When Louise, 46, first met Jamie in 1995, she was a huge star in her own right having won a slew of awards with Eternal and then as a solo artist.
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