Fashion and Glomour

GLAMOUR was never Coleen McLoughlin's strongest points,until she met Wayne Rooney and then she became Britain's most photographed woman by the tabloid press, other than the late Princess of Wales-Lady Diana.

In an interview with the Daily Star,Coleen did confess,''Like Betty I wore a brace and glasses when I was younger." But insisted that she as teenager never felt embarrassed as,"loads of other girls wore braces".

Coleen,the daughter of Tony and Colette McLoughlin,a bricklayer and nursery nurse is one of four children. She has two younger brothers Joe and Anthony and one sister Posie and they all grew up in the Croxteth area of Liverpool. She left school surprisingly enough with ten GCSEs and hopes of becoming an actress.

Well her close acquaintance with Wayne certainly changed all that because,the tabloids and the country soon began to notice her dress sense, her innocence, her youth so much so that she actually writes a regular column in CLOSER Magazine advising on lifestyle and dress sense.

Her popularity has gone from strenght to strenght because although she seems to be as comfortable in velour tracksuits as she is in designer outfits, she has never lost sight of her background or where she comes from. By the time she was 18 Miss McLoughlin soon amassed a small fortune of 5.5m pounds through sponsorship deals,writing for CLOSER on fashion and lifestyle and various modelling contracts for ASDA. Whilst she may not be in the Kate Moss league and admits to putting on weight and having to work out with a trainer both Coleen and Wayne like to try and stick to healthy diet with the odd lapse here and there. Coleen's success with fashion seems to emerge from her love of high street fashion which can be inexpensive but nevertheless still very stylish so much so that a well known publisher is offering her a very lucrative contract worth 1m pounds to write a book on fashion and lifestyle. How much of fashion or lifestyle a 21 year old has seen in this day and age will be something I will be looking forward to either reading reviews of it or if it is that brilliant I might take a peek myself.

What the future holds for Coleen and her international football star will be interesting to see,because although she will never I hope be short of cash and has a bright future to look forward as Mrs Rooney, in a recent column in CLOSER she had a word of caution for young women in debt. She wrote,''Apparently,more and more young women are getting into debt because they try to shop and party like a footballer's wife. There's so much great stuff on the high street-you can look amazing on a budget.''

Which makes me wonder that although this girl from Liverpool swapped her velour tracksuits for the Bond Street look to what extent was it to please Wayne. "I do ask Wayne's opinion on clothes but he is not very good at it.He will say if he doesn't like something though." So in a roundabout way fiance Wayne does get a chance to comment and influence the country fashion craze, regardless of whether he knows anything about fashion.He has been nicknamed as "Scruff" by NEW Magazine and fiancee Coleen says he gives it to her straight when it comes to clothes.

Coleen McLoughlin denies her photos have been airbrushed

Coleen as stated that there's no truth in claims she was airbrushed in the ads for her new perfume. She's been launching the George autumn/winter collection for Asda: "I was going on holiday before I done the shoot and I was working out."

Coleen joined George launching Must Have in 2006. Angela Spindler, global managing director of George, said: "Coleen and her family are also Asda shoppers so she knows about the George range and has a great affinity with our customers." Other styles at George for around £10 include Sixties-style tartan mini dresses and kilts, egg-shaped skirts and baggy trousers