‘I’m not stupid, you know – I’m really not. I know what I’m doing. I’ve had enough knocks to know what the circumstances are, you know, and I’m happy. If other people aren’t, that’s their problem.’
– February 2009, after her then-husband Ashley Cole was accused of cheating
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‘I don’t trust anybody.’ – November 2009
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‘I’m not one of them people who will go, “Where were you? Who were you with?” I can’t be. I see other girls doing it to their boyfriends and I think seriously, it’s so off-putting, like have a bit of something about yourself. You don’t need to do that.’ – November 2009
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‘That’s why it’s called a fairy tale, isn’t it? It’s not real. Love is real and the feelings of love are real. But the thought that everything is going to be rosy and there’s never going to be obstacles that get in your way, that there is never going to be any testing in life, I’d hate that. I want to experience life. I want to experience the bad to know what the good is.’ – November 2009
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‘I can’t wait to have children. Even if all this went tomorrow and I just had my family and my kids and my husband and my parents, I’m happy.’ – November 2009
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‘It’s very much a perception. And that can be frustrating at times, especially when somebody you’ve never seen before approaches you in a restaurant toilet with an opinion on your marriage. Nobody knows what I went through behind closed doors. Nobody knows what it was like when I was on my own.’ – February 2011, after she had split with Ashley
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‘You know this is the one thing that I’ve definitely drawn the line with. I am not prepared to explain myself. I’m not prepared to say either way. I will never speak about my relationship status again.’ – December 2012
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‘I haven’t had to deal with dating rumours for years because I was married; I didn’t have to deal with any of that crap. I actually wasn’t linked to that many people even before I met Ashley, so it’s weird now, to be honest. Every week I’m seeing someone else; I’m a busy girl. I haven’t thought about how it affects the guys, but it doesn’t affect me anymore. It goes through me. There’s a force field around me. I’m bulletproof.’ – December 2012
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‘I don’t want to be one of those ex-couples who hate each other. Let it rest and just move on. That’s something that I learned from my mum.’ – August 2014
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‘I thought I had every box ticked, career and personal. I was the first to get married. I was the one everyone though would be the first to have a baby. And then the rug got pulled out from under me. I’ve learned there is no such thing as a plan. You can’t make them. I’m just enjoying finding out who I am. That’s good enough right now.’ – August 2014