Coleen Rooney has shared a rare photo of herself and her husband Wayne Rooney taken on his 18th birthday in October 2003.
The snap shows the couple standing in front of Wayne’s birthday cake which featured photos of the footballer on the pitch.
Wayne, 38, played for Everton at the time, with the club’s logo seen on the side of the cake along with a dark blue bow.
He spent two seasons at the club before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window.
Wayne sported a plaid blazer in the photo along with a white and black striped shirt as he posed alongside his then girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin.
Memories: Coleen Rooney has shared a rare photo of herself and her husband Wayne Rooney taken on his 18th birthday in October 2003
Coleen, 37, donned a black sleeveless dress with a turtle neck while her streaked blonde locks were styled into a ponytail.
Wayne and Coleen met when they were in secondary school and married in 2008 after six years of dating.
Coelen shared a slew of unseen childhood snaps as she prepares to publish her much-anticipated biography.
The WAG has penned My Account, which documents her infamous Wagatha Christie dispute with Rebekah Vardy, and took the world by storm in 2019.
And in a promotional video posted on Instagram ahead of the book’s publication on Thursday, Coleen shared a slew of new snaps taken during her younger years, while looking back on her childhood.
Among the snaps are a young Coleen receiving her First Holy Communion and enjoying holidays with her family.
The mother-of-four can also been as a young teenager dressed in a school uniform, and in an adorable snap as a baby with her mum Colette.
In the video to promote her new book, Coleen said: ‘My new book is about my account of my life over the past few years, but also it goes back to childhood.
‘I feel like now is the right time to have my say, I feel like people have had their views and their say, but now it’s my turn.
Relationship: Wayne and Coleen met when they were in secondary school and married in 2008 after six years of dating
Throwback: Coleen Rooney has shared a slew of unseen childhood snaps as she prepares to publish her much-anticipated biography
Blast from the past: In a promotional video ahead of the publication of her book My Account on Thursday, the WAG has shared a series of images from her ‘lucky’ childhood
‘I absolutely loved going back to my childhood memories, I was fortunate and lucky to have a really great upbrinign and it was just so nice looking back on that.
‘Overall I’ve really enjoyed the writing process, I have had ups and downs in my life and it’s been difficult at times wriitng about those, however overally it’s made me realise by true values of life.’
In Coleen’s book, she candidly touches on why she decided to stand by her husband Wayne after he was embroiled in multiple cheating scandals, and also shared that the tragically had a miscarriage during their first pregnancy.
In her book Coleen wrote: ‘Wayne’s a great dad. Every time he’s gone off the rails, it’s been a stupid, drunken, spur-of-the-moment thing.’
‘My message is if there’s something to work at, if the love’s still there, why would you throw that away? Mistakes have happened, but I’ve always known Wayne’s loved me.’
Recalling their miscarriage heartache, she added: ‘A horrible experience that knocked Wayne for six, to.’
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She also explained the depression Wayne’s suffered intermittently, as a result of the pressure he’s faced since signing for Everton from a young age.
‘Still to this day he has it – everyone on him,’ she said. ‘Not to see what he’s doing right but to see what he’s doing wrong. It’s a shame.’
‘Whatever scrutiny I was under, [Wayne] had it tenfold… he’ll drink to blot it all out and escape from the world. What happens of course is the opposite.’
Coleen’s book follows a television drama, Channel 4’s Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama, a stage play, Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, and the two-part Discovery+ documentary Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Trial.
Last month, a drama documentary about the story and court case telling Rooney’s side of the story, was released on Disney+.
