Sir Rod Stewart’s Colorfully Complex Love Life

Planning To Leave

In a 2001 interview with The Mirror, Rachel said that she’d been trying to figure out how to leave him, even though it looked like they were living in a fairytale. “To the outside world, I was the mother of two beautiful kids, a wife to Rod and a successful model without any financial worries – but inside, I was in torment.”

Rachel embraces Rod at an event.

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She said that at the age of 29, she’d spent her entire 20s with another person’s group of friends. She didn’t feel like she’d done anything for herself and said she didn’t even have a hobby. She didn’t know who she was outside of her marriage to Rod.