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Welcome to My World
One of the most photographed women in Britain, Coleen knows what it's like to live in the celebrity glare. Since she was a teenager the press have followed her every move. Welcome to My World' is Coleen's first book and offers exclusive insights into her transformation from an ordinary Liverpudlian schoolgirl into a glamorous style icon. Coleen has become a huge inspiration to girls everywhere. We have watched in admiration as she has become sought after for the cover of the world's fashion and style magazines, featured in Vogue, presented her own TV programme, become a regular magazine columnist and worked as the face of high profile brands. 'Welcome to My World' is Coleen's chance to share with her millions of fans the ways in which she has developed her taste in fashion, and the tips she can pass on from her increasingly admired style and her fitness regime. She also gives fascinating insights into what life is really like in the unrelenting celebrity spotlight and amidst the glare of the constant paparrazi flashbulbs. Along with often humorous insights into Coleen's world, the book includes her tips on fashion and style do's and don'ts based on her own experience of growing up in the limelight. It will be an inspiration to anyone interested in fashion, glamour and how one girl coped when she was thrust into the celebrity spotlight and her life changed forever.
- GenresBiographyAutobiography
328 pages, Hardcover
First published March 5, 2007
About the author
Coleen McLoughlin
10 books3 followersAlso known as Coleen Rooney
Once ribbed by the press for her fashion sense and spending sprees, Coleen Rooney, neé McLoughlin, took four years to make the leap from schoolgirl to covergirl.
Having emerged into the public eye as the teenage fiancée of England footie ace Wayne Rooney, she has gone on to become a fully fledged celebrity in her own right, applauded for her style and wooed to front big-name ad campaigns.
The rise from footballer's fiancée to style icon and wealthy celeb wife was not without its hurdles, however.
She was born in 1986 in Liverpool to a hardworking Catholic family. The daughter of Tony McLoughlin, a bricklayer who ran a boxing club and his wife Colette, Coleen grew up in the city's tough Croxteth district.
She had two brothers Joe and Anthony, and an adopted sister Rosie, who was born with a genetic disorder known as Rett Syndrome, which meant she needed round the clock care.
The pretty blonde was just 12 when she first met the boy who would change the course of her life. Young love blossomed after Wayne plucked up the courage to ask her for a date, seizing the moment when he lent a hand after the chain had come off her bike.
While Wayne - who at the age of nine had signed as an apprentice with Liverpool football team Everton - concentrated on sport, Coleen was busy with her homework.
A hardworking student and deputy head of her Catholic girl's school, she gained an impressive ten GCSEs, at the same time as working Saturdays in a clothes shop where she earned £3.65 an hour. But as she embarked upon her A-levels, life began to take a very different course.
In October 2003, fresh from his England debut, her 17-year-old beau proposed to her on a garage forecourt. She accepted, leaving school later that year and going on to land a small role in the Merseyside soap Hollyoaks. Soon the pair were established in a millionaire-style mansion in nearby Formby.
Since then the Croxteth lass has forged a confident sense of style, often mixing designer creations with canny high-street purchases. She has appeared on the covers of Vogue and Marie Claire and written her magazine columns.
With lucrative modelling contracts with Asda and a mobile phone company under her belt, as well as royalties from her fitness DVD, Coleen could also afford to lavish gifts on her boyfriend. These included a Rolex watch and an Aston Martin, intended to cheer up the injured soccer star after he broke a bone in his foot before the 2006 World Cup.
Despite her new-found wealth and celebrity status, Coleen has never forgotten her roots and her humble background. "Sometimes Wayne will sit there and say: 'I can't believe it'. But you don't take it for granted. If either of us did, we'd say something."
In June 2008, she married Wayne in a lavish wedding held in the picturesque Italian Riviera’s Villa Durazzo, a 17th-century palace in the resort of Santa Margherita Ligure. Despite the torrential downpour the £5 million ceremony was the stuff of dreams, with the bride looking the picture of happiness in her Marchesa gown – rumoured to have cost £200,000 – and a huge fireworks display rounding off the reception.
She soon announced that the couple were expecting their first child. They welcomed baby son Kai Wayne in November 2009.
Sadly, in 2013, her little sister Rosie passed away, aged 14. Coleen and her family said they were "heartbroken".
Their statement added: "She was such a strong little girl and an inspiration to us all. We shall cherish forever the memories we have shared and the love she showed us each and every day of her life."
A few months after her death the footballer's wife was given a reason to smile again when her and Wayne's second son Klay Anthony was born.
Coleen is more than happy with her role as mum – and has admitted she’d love more children in the future.
Once ribbed by the press for her fashion sense and spending sprees, Coleen Rooney, neé McLoughlin, took four years to make the leap from schoolgirl to covergirl.
Having emerged into the public eye as the teenage fiancée of England footie ace Wayne Rooney, she has gone on to become a fully fledged celebrity in her own right, applauded for her style and wooed to front big-name ad campaigns.
The rise from footballer's fiancée to style icon and wealthy celeb wife was not without its hurdles, however.
She was born in 1986 in Liverpool to a hardworking Catholic family. The daughter of Tony McLoughlin, a bricklayer who ran a boxing club and his wife Colette, Coleen grew up in the city's tough Croxteth district.
She had two brothers Joe and Anthony, and an adopted sister Rosie, who was born with a genetic disorder known as Rett Syndrome, which meant she needed round the clock care.
The pretty blonde was just 12 when she first met the boy who would change the course of her life. Young love blossomed after Wayne plucked up the courage to ask her for a date, seizing the moment when he lent a hand after the chain had come off her bike.
While Wayne - who at the age of nine had signed as an apprentice with Liverpool football team Everton - concentrated on sport, Coleen was busy with her homework.
A hardworking student and deputy head of her Catholic girl's school, she gained an impressive ten GCSEs, at the same time as working Saturdays in a clothes shop where she earned £3.65 an hour. But as she embarked upon her A-levels, life began to take a very different course.
In October 2003, fresh from his England debut, her 17-year-old beau proposed to her on a garage forecourt. She accepted, leaving school later that year and going on to land a small role in the Merseyside soap Hollyoaks. Soon the pair were established in a millionaire-style mansion in nearby Formby.
Since then the Croxteth lass has forged a confident sense of style, often mixing designer creations with canny high-street purchases. She has appeared on the covers of Vogue and Marie Claire and written her magazine columns.
With lucrative modelling contracts with Asda and a mobile phone company under her belt, as well as royalties from her fitness DVD, Coleen could also afford to lavish gifts on her boyfriend. These included a Rolex watch and an Aston Martin, intended to cheer up the injured soccer star after he broke a bone in his foot before the 2006 World Cup.
Despite her new-found wealth and celebrity status, Coleen has never forgotten her roots and her humble background. "Sometimes Wayne will sit there and say: 'I can't believe it'. But you don't take it for granted. If either of us did, we'd say something."
In June 2008, she married Wayne in a lavish wedding held in the picturesque Italian Riviera’s Villa Durazzo, a 17th-century palace in the resort of Santa Margherita Ligure. Despite the torrential downpour the £5 million ceremony was the stuff of dreams, with the bride looking the picture of happiness in her Marchesa gown – rumoured to have cost £200,000 – and a huge fireworks display rounding off the reception.
She soon announced that the couple were expecting their first child. They welcomed baby son Kai Wayne in November 2009.
Sadly, in 2013, her little sister Rosie passed away, aged 14. Coleen and her family said they were "heartbroken".
Their statement added: "She was such a strong little girl and an inspiration to us all. We shall cherish forever the memories we have shared and the love she showed us each and every day of her life."
A few months after her death the footballer's wife was given a reason to smile again when her and Wayne's second son Klay Anthony was born.
Coleen is more than happy with her role as mum – and has admitted she’d love more children in the future.
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October 15, 2007
It's not often I give up on a book but perhaps unsurprisingly I had to admit defeat when it came to this War and Peace epic on Coleen's five or so years of vicarious fame so far, and her burgeoning career as a - erm - 'Closer' columnist/style guru. I have a suspicion she's not quite got to grips with the offside rule yet, but she does have lots of handy fashion tips, highlighted in pink of course.
December 21, 2017
I've just finished this. I found it in a cupboard when I was having a clear out and remembered I had bought it for a bit of a laugh from a discount bookshop a few years ago so thought I'd read it. I must admit to not being a fan of either Coleen or Rooney. It was an interesting read to start off with, but I got more and more annoyed with the constant references to how much things had cost and which show Coleen as something of a paradox. She talked about buying Wayne an Aston Martin, various watches, pieces of jewellery, the extravagance of her 21st birthday party etc which I felt was rather vulgar and show-off, then over and over again she says how lucky she is and how (fair enough) grateful she is.
I am completely baffled, however, (and this book did not really explain it) why the media showed any interest in her in the first place and I will never understand why she was given her own TV show with no previous presenting experience, or why she and Alex Gerrard "write" magazine columns, where they advise us on the latest fashion trends, despite neither of them having a background in fashion design. Many highly qualified journalists slog away for years without ever being privileged enough to get their own column in a national magazine, yet these WAGs are handed these jobs on a plate.
It does at times read rather like a journal but for all that I am also not convinced at all that she wrote this herself.
I am completely baffled, however, (and this book did not really explain it) why the media showed any interest in her in the first place and I will never understand why she was given her own TV show with no previous presenting experience, or why she and Alex Gerrard "write" magazine columns, where they advise us on the latest fashion trends, despite neither of them having a background in fashion design. Many highly qualified journalists slog away for years without ever being privileged enough to get their own column in a national magazine, yet these WAGs are handed these jobs on a plate.
It does at times read rather like a journal but for all that I am also not convinced at all that she wrote this herself.
July 14, 2017
Interesting read about the early life as Mrs Rooney elect
July 18, 2007
I loved this book as it shows that not all people change once they become famous. It goes through the ups and downs of coleens life. It tells you about her first partys and meeting people she had always dreamed of.
It just seems asif she is a very relaxed and true person.
The pictures show that she has not changed from a chils and probably never will. XxxxXxxX
It just seems asif she is a very relaxed and true person.
The pictures show that she has not changed from a chils and probably never will. XxxxXxxX
June 20, 2009
she's really quite nice
June 17, 2010
A great read for the World Cup! It was just for fun, nothing deep in here.
March 13, 2012
a very insightful look into the world of coleen rooney, throughly enjoyed the book.
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