LOVE Island star Laura Anderson has revealed she loves being a WAG – as she fancies her footballer boyfriend even more when he’s on the pitch.
The Scots influencer, 36, from Stirling, has been waiting to find her soulmate after finishing runner-up on the 2018 series of the hit dating series with Paul Knops.
She later split up with the reality star and dated Another Level’s Dane Bowers, 45, and Hollyoaks actor Gary Lucy - with whom she had daughter Bonnie - before meeting her Dundee defender beau Clark Robertson, 31.
The ex-air hostess admits she used to hate watching football - but is now learning the rules so she can fawn over her fella.
Laura said: “I guess I’m a WAG now. I actually really like football. I didn’t really like it before. To be honest, it just reminded me of my dad hogging the remote when we were young and I never got to watch what I wanted to watch.
“But now I like going to the games. I think he looks very sexy actually because he’s quite bossy on the pitch and he’s not like that day-to-day. He’s such a relaxed, chilled out guy.
“So on the pitch he’s always pointing and I’m like ‘what the hell what’s going on?’”
Clark even reckons that Bonnie, who turns two in September, could be the next in line for soccer stardom.
Laura added: “Clark did say Bonnie’s got a good left foot and she’s actually really good at football already.
“I think I’m going to take credit for it because I started her out on the ball before I met Clark, but I think he might be trying to take credit that she’s somehow following in his footsteps.”
Single mum Laura, who split from Lucy during her pregnancy, quit her radio presenting gig on Capital Scotland’s Breakfast Show in February.
She walked away after less than a year due to suffering burnout from juggling super early rises for work while looking after Bonnie.
The blonde bombshell would love to return to the airwaves one day - but until then she wants to fit everything around watching her daughter grow.
Laura said: “She is wild. It was her first day at nursery last week and I dropped her off and cried my eyes out.
“She’s a sassy little thing but a mummy’s girl at heart. There’s so much to learn with being a mum and it’s ever-changing as they grow. There’s a new milestone each week.
“I need to keep up with her and meet those needs and I just want to do the best I can. There’s definitely more pressure doing it alone as all the responsibility is on me.
“Sometimes I think that maybe if I wasn’t doing it alone, I wouldn’t be as good a mum. So I have to take it as a blessing because I do feel quite proud of myself that she’s doing so well and she’s so happy.”
She added: “I just fit my work around Bonnie now. There’s jobs I have to knock back and I’d love to be going to London and going to these events all the time
“But it’s just not worth it. I left Capital because I couldn’t really be the energetic mum I wanted to be. I had to make a tough decision but I don’t regret choosing my daughter over any work opportunities because they’re only young once.
“I like doing brand deals and my Instagram and stuff like that because it is so flexible and I can work from home or anywhere else.
“I did actually love doing radio so it would be great if I could have a wee weekend show on Heart - as you get older you go from Capital to Heart apparently.
“Maybe even when Bonnie goes to school I could be back on. Right now it’s just not working to get up at 4.30am five times a week.”
One of the biggest changes in Laura’s life since becoming a mum is the type of following she has.
With 1.5million on Instagram alone, people love following her life and finding out what she’s up to.
Fellow mums often reach out to pay her lovely compliments and she admits it’s a relief to be told she’s doing a good job.
She said: “There’s parts of being a mum that’s relatable and I definitely feel it’s a nice little community where other mums help me and then I help them back.
“You get a lot of comfort from realising you’re not the only one going through things. I’ve had a lot of private messages from other mums telling me how much they love watching me and Bonnie and that they want to be friends with us.
“Like when I took Bonnie on holiday myself when she was young, you get other mums saying they never thought they could do it and that it helped them realise they could.
“It’s little things like that that make me feel good as I see that it’s the right decision for me to share if it’s making someone else feel better.”
