Coleen Rooney says 'obviously it's changed' as she issues honest marriage update over Wayne

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Coleen Rooney admits her relationship with husband Wayne has "obviously changed" over the years as she opened up on the couple having "ups and downs".

Coleen and Wayne are childhood sweethearts after meeting as teenagers. They married in 2008 and share four sons - Kai, 16, Klay, 12, Kit, 10, and eight-year-old Cass.

The WAG thinks it is natural that their relationship was changed over the course of the time they have known each other, which now stretches back more than 20 years.

Speaking to the Times , Coleen, 39, said: "Obviously it's changed with age and children coming on board and career changes.

“You have your ups and downs, you have things that happen in life. But I think being together from a young age, we know each other inside and out.

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"We’re a team. So no, I wouldn’t say we’ve changed. I would say things around us have changed.”

Coleen, who turns 40 next month, and Wayne had known each other since they were 12 as they were from the same area of Liverpool. But they had only been dating for a few months when Wayne scored his first Premier League goal for Everton, days before his 17th birthday. It made him the competition's youngest ever scorer at the time and catapulted both of them into the headlines.

She is aware that her kids will have far different opportunities to the ones enjoyed by her and Wayne as the Rooneys are bankable stars.

The former England striker is on a two-year, £800,000 BBC deal after some failed managerial roles. And Coleen reportedly made £1.5million from her stint in the I'm A Celeb jungle but she turned down an offer to appear on Celebrity Traitors.

She told The Times: "I love watching The Traitors . But I don’t know whether I could be that fake.

"If I was a traitor and I was lying to them, in my head I’d be thinking, ‘Oh, I’d hate people to think that’s what I was like in real life, just like scamming people.’ ”

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Meanwhile, Coleen recently met with King Charles during a reception to highlight the inspirational work of carers - and she has a very personal reason to talk with the monarch.

She has intimate knowledge of what life is like for carers as her sister, who died aged just 14 in 2013, required a lot of care.

Rosie was adopted by Coleen's parents when she was two and faced a lifelong battle with rare brain disorder Rett Syndrome.

The condition affects roughly one in 10,000 infant girls and symptoms can include lack of motor function, difficulty feeding and seizures.

Coleen spoke about her love for Rosie in her documentary, Coleen: The Real Wagatha Christie Story, released 10 years after Rosie's death. She said Rosie was "the sister that I never thought I was going to have”.