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Abbey Clancy has secrets hopes for a larger brood – except her husband, retired football star Peter Crouch, doesn’t quite agree. The couple, who tied the knot 14 years ago, have been entertaining fans for years with their hilarious honesty and true affection for each other on their The Therapy Crouch podcast.
And as Abbey, 39, tells OK! in an exclusive interview, life may be pretty chaotic with the couple’s children Sophia, 14, Liberty, 10, Johnny, seven, and Jack, six – but she’d be quite happy to add some more chaos into the mix, if she had her own way, now the kids are all out at school every day.
Revealing the best thing about parenting at this stage, model and former Strictly champion Abbey says: “We’re not walking round with two prams and two nappy bags! I love them when they’re babies but with my sister and brothers and their partners and kids, we’ve got a proper ready-made little gang now.”
But asked if she doesn’t need a fifth ‘baby’ then, she replies laughing: “I’d have 10 kids if I could, but Pete is like, “absolutely not”. I think he said he’ll leave me if I bring another living thing into the house. All the kids are in school now, so I could easily have a newborn, but my husband says “no way”.”
So, who will win the baby battle, does she think? Abbey confesses that she normally gets her own way – but he doesn’t think she will on this. – as she reveals she’s actually just got a lovely new addition to the family. “I’ve actually just got a lovely new baby who’s 18 hands – Enzo, my horse. He’s five minutes from the house but I’d like him to live in my garden and sleep in my bed, but that’s not possible either!”
And speaking of fifth babies, Abbey thinks it’s hilarious, some of the stuff that gets written about her and Peter, out of things they say on their hit podcast. “Well, it’s very inconsistent, isn’t it? One minute we’re living separate lives and the next we’re having a fifth baby! I don’t read the stories though, I only learn about them when I get a call from a relative asking, “Are you and Pete splitting up?” or “Are you having another baby?”
But she admits, people love it because it’s ‘authentic’: ” None of our friends listen to the podcast because they say they get enough of us anyway, because that’s totally who we are! I’m actually glad about that though, it means we can talk about them all on the podcast and they’ll never know!
“When we decided to do it we said it has to be unfiltered and real, and if you look at anything in life, the things that are authentic are the things that last, and work. It’s like therapy for us because it’s a great way to connect and talk about life, experiences and memories.
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