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Rebekah Vardy has insisted people don't understand the 'pressures' of being married to a footballer.
The WAG, 44, has been married to Burnley F.C striker Jamie Vardy, 39, for ten years, and together they raise five children at their 12-bedroom mansion in Lincolnshire, after relocating back to the UK this month after Jamie spent a single season playing in Italy for Cremonese.
Becky took part in a fan Q&A on Instagram on Wednesday, where she was asked 'what's the hardest part about being a footballer's wife?'
She admitted the often last minute relocations around the world, especially with a young family, were tricky to navigate.
'Oh god there is so much to say on this one!' the WAG began. 'There is a lot of instability and the pressure it puts on the whole family. People don't see that!'
Becky added that she also hates the stereotypes attributed to WAGs. 'You're automatically stereotyped, people assume you are shallow, obsessed, materialistic and not particularly intelligent!' she wrote.
Rebekah Vardy has insisted people don't understand the 'pressures' of being married to a footballer (pictured with her husband Burnley F.C striker Jamie Vardy)
Becky took part in a fan Q&A on Instagram on Wednesday, where she was asked 'what's the hardest part about being a footballers wife?'
'There is an assumption because you are privileged (which we are) you're expected to tolerate public criticism and the strange idea that money removes your right to be hurt!'
'But it's a no win situation I don't have the appetite to people please anymore!'
During the Q&A Becky also teased fans when asked if there would be a second series of her family's ITV reality show The Vardys, replying 'haha maybe' with a sideeye emoji.
Becky's much-hyped reality series launched to dismal viewing figures back in June.
The Daily Mail revealed that The Vardys attracted an average audience of just 670,000 on its debut night, despite ITV clearing a primetime 9pm slot for the former I’m A Celebrity star’s comeback vehicle.
The programme managed a meagre 6.7 per cent audience share and was comfortably beaten by rival shows across the schedules.
BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? drew almost three times as many viewers, averaging 1.9million across the same period, while even a repeat of QI on BBC2 proved more popular.
Channel 5’s new drama The Fortune also comfortably beat The Vardys with close to one million viewers.
Becky added that she also hates the stearotypes attributed to WAGs. 'You're automatically stereotyped, people assume you are shallow, materalistic and not particularly intelligent!'
‘It's a major flop, and very disappointing considering the amount of effort which has gone into it,’ an industry source told the Daily Mail at the time. ‘You'd expect the first episode to be the most popular too after all the advertising and promotion around it, so there's every likelihood it will only get worse from here.
‘There's a bit of head scratching over why anyone thought someone with Becky's reputation would attract viewers.’
The three-part series followed Rebekah and former England ace and Premier League winner Jamie as they uprooted their family and relocated to Italy after Jamie signed for Serie A side Cremonese.
It charted the family's journey after Jamie agreed to leave Leicester City, leaving him without a club for the final years of his career.
But rather than delivering the glamorous footballing fairytale ITV may have hoped for, the programme sparked a wave of criticism from viewers and television critics alike.
ITV told the Daily Mail that the show was made available to streaming audiences on ITVX before its TV slot, and that those figures were not yet available.
One major publication's TV critic branded it ‘very bad, very boring and devastating for Wagatha Christie fans’ alongside a one-star rating out of five.
Another labelled it ‘.... deeply dull’ in a humorous nod to Coleen Rooney's now-infamous social media post, which accused rival Becky of leaking stories about her to the media, prompting their extraordinarily messy and expensive High Court battle, which ended in a devastating defeat for Rebekah.
Becky's rival Coleen launched her family's reality series this week on Disney. Alongside husband Wayne, Coleen has given fans an intimate look inside their family life with sons Kai, 16, Klay, 13, Kit, ten, and Cass, eight, in their new £10million fly-on-the-wall show, The Real Rooneys, which was filmed last year.
However, while Coleen was a huge hit in the I'm A Celeb jungle, her reality series with her husband has received rather mixed reviews from critics.
The Daily Mail's Christopher Stevens gave the show a one star scathing review as he wrote: 'The extent to which I find this offensive, and the anger of my reaction, surprises even me.'
Taking offence with the fact that none of Wayne's previous cheating allegations or alcohol struggles are addressed he wrote: ' To call it The Real Rooneys, however, and then make no mention, is simply deceitful.'
He added: 'Why anyone would want to be portrayed as vacuous, self-obsessed, intellectually numb, absurdly insulated from reality and just spectacularly tacky, is beyond me.
'It's like an endless Instagram loop devised to convince us that life with the Rooneys is all a great boisterous lark, where everyone laughs and frolics until they fall into bed with exhausted happy smiles, excited about what tomorrow will bring – a Scouse version of The Waltons, with a hideous gilded brick barn instead of a wooden house.'
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