Model Penny Lancaster has said she was not "a fan" of her husband, Rod Stewart, when she first met him.
The Loose Women panellist met the singer behind the chart-topping hits Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? and Maggie May in 1999 and went on to marry him in 2007.
Speaking about how she first met Stewart and her first impression of him, the 54-year-old revealed that she was drawn into Stewart's world, describing the star, 80, as an "unknown entity".
Lancaster told Saga Magazine: "I wasn't a fan. And I definitely wasn't thinking of a relationship because I was coming out of a long-term one, which wasn't easy.
"Rod was such an unknown entity."
Speaking about the night they met, where Lancaster reportedly went up to the singer to ask for an autograph, she said: "There were a lot of times after that night when I thought, 'What the hell am I getting myself into?' But Rod's world was a vortex, and I was sucked in."
Stewart was previously married to his first wife, the actress Alana Stewart, and later to his second wife, the model Rachel Hunter.
He reportedly has eight children from previous and current relationships, two of which, Alastair and Aiden, he shares with Lancaster.
Lancaster said Stewart originally did not want to have more children with the model.
However, he eventually changed his mind.
She said: "Now Rod always says, 'I wish I'd said yes [to babies] earlier, because then we could have had more children'. Even five years ago, we were talking about adopting, but it ended up not happening.
"We thought there might be too much of an age gap."
Lancaster's comments come ahead of the release of her memoir, Someone Like Me, which will be published on 25 September.
Source: Press Association
