Ayda Field

We've got eight dogs, a cat, a turtle, kids... yeah we have a lot of dogs. It's a lot of fur, it's a lot of poop... and that's not even counting Robbie. He's the hairiest most feral animal of all.

For years, I was 'just' a stay at home mum and wife - which, by the way, is harder than any other job I've ever had.

Behind closed doors, Rob is a real teddy bear, a big softie.

Therapy is so personal but it can be a really amazing tool so long as you are not forced into it.

As women we try so hard to be perfect at everything, all the time. It's impossible.

I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.

Rob and I both have a problem with taking jokes too far.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

I've never really minded being Mrs. Robbie Williams because my ego is relatively small, but it is really nice now that people know there is something else there besides that.

I'm always saying to myself, there aren't enough hours in the day, which I think any working mum says to herself.

There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.

I love Stoke-on-Trent, it is where Rob grew up.

I always had an oddball sense of humour.

I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that just didn't work when I was seven, people did not laugh.

Robbie minced into my life and he had the same oddball sense of humour as me. It was love at first laugh.

If it was up to Rob we would be eating Nandos and salad cream, morning, noon and night!

I took for the first time, I mean Rob is 42, for the first time I took him to the supermarket. He is really like a 15-year-old boy! He's just frozen in Take That time. He was like 'This is amazing they have everything!' I was like 'that's what you do at a supermarket.' It was a revelation for him.

I'm just very talky, as you can imagine.

But I like the chaos. As long as it's happy chaos.

Rob is incredibly supportive. When I work he takes care of the kids and vice versa.

I have to audition for everything; there is no Mrs. Robbie Williams free pass, and because I'm working with British actors everyone is so polite - no one mentions Robbie.

Being parents suits us. Having kids has been the best thing for both of us.

I didn't know what it would be like being on 'X Factor' with my husband. It's surpassed everything I could have expected.

I know what it is like to lose your confidence.