Louise Redknapp: 'I ticked all the boxes of being the picture-perfect wife - I felt lonely, anxious and unimportant'

Louise Redknapp speaks from the heart in her new book, 'You've Got This'

Louise Redknapp on splitting from her husband:  “I never once looked behind, until maybe too late. I should have paused for a minute and thought about other people and had just a bit more time to work out why I felt I couldn’t do it any more.” 

Louise Redknapp has packed a lot into the past three decades. A member of the first female British pop group to sell over a million records while still in her teens, she went on to become a platinum selling solo performer, model, TV presenter, finalist on Strictly, West End musical star, and back when such ideas existed, FHM magazine’s Sexiest Woman In The World in 1998. Ever since winning a scholarship to the Italia Conti school of theatre arts aged 11, Louise has been busy, busy, busy. Until, that is, she disappeared into her marriage.

Now 46, she’s just published a book, You’ve Got This: And Other Things I Wish I Had Known, which is part memoir / part self-help. It is emphatically not a tell-all; it contains nothing salacious, gossipy, or revealing, either from the pop world, or the football world into which she married (just don’t call her a WAG – she finds the term demeaning).