'I'M A TIGER'

Posted Sunday, May 16, 2010 by NOTW.co.uk

"Honestly, I'm a really bad cook," she says. "We're very traditional at home. Jamie is head of the house, even though I run it. Most of the time he sees me in sweatpants and no make-up doing the school run or just being with the kids, but we have our date nights, too. We'll meet up in a restaurant. I'll put on something cool and a lovely jacket and I'll make sure my hair looks good. I want him to see me and think 'Wow!'"

Does her husband make the same effort for her? She laughs again. "Jamie's possibly one of the most unromantic people in the world," she says. "In nearly two decades together I've never come home to flowers and candles. But he compliments me a lot, and when I see him going off with our boys playing golf or football, it makes my heart melt because he's a great dad."

Louise has every reason to feel emotional when the subject of family comes up because there was a time when she believed she would never be a mum.

"Soon after we were married a doctor told me I probably couldn't have kids because I had severe endometriosis," she says. "I felt like I'd failed, I was totally and utterly shocked. Jamie was amazing, but it was very hard for him. I just didn't know what to do."

It took some months before she could face finding out whether she had any options, and she went through laser surgery treatment to remove endometrial cells, before falling pregnant with Charley in 2004, then Beau four years later.

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