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Wayne Rooney's fiancee Coleen McLoughlin is never far from the media spotlight.

Recent rumours suggest that Girls Aloud and the Sugababes will be performing at her 21st birthday bash.

Meanwhile Coleen has published her first book 'Welcome to My World' which includes insights into her transformation from an ordinary Liverpudlian schoolgirl into a glamorous style icon.

Speaking to 麻豆社 Radio Merseyside's Billy Butler, Coleen explained why she wrote the book.

鈥淚 said I don鈥檛 really want to write an autobiography because I haven鈥檛 got that much to say. So I thought I鈥檒l answer the questions that everyone asks me when they first meet me and it鈥檚 鈥榃hat鈥檚 it like going from school girl photograph to where I am now?鈥�

鈥淪o my book is about the last four years and I鈥檝e thrown in some beauty tips, fashion tips. It鈥檚 like a really girly compact book, there are loads of photographs.鈥�

The tabloids always report on you shopping.

鈥淚 love going shopping. I love that I still do it myself.

鈥淚 haven鈥檛 got all stylists or anything like that. I love to go to town with my mates of a Saturday or whatever and shop.

鈥淏ut I prefer to go on my own if I need something, and have a good day shopping. But I can get fed up at the end of the day.鈥�

You say that friends are very important to you?

鈥淔riends and family mean everything to me. My friends are just the friends that I鈥檝e always had. And as well things don鈥檛 come as a surprise to them because they鈥檝e grown up with me along the way.

鈥淪o for my book signing they鈥檒l probably all be at Waterstones. I said 鈥榊ou don鈥檛 skip the line because there鈥檒l be other people waiting鈥�, and so they said 鈥榃e鈥檒l just come and we鈥檒l just wave.鈥�

Sometimes when people get famous their friends get jealous.

鈥淚鈥檓 pretty lucky because none of my friends have done that. My friends that I鈥檝e got I鈥檝e stuck with throughout and are still my friends today.

鈥淭here probably have been a couple of them down the line but they鈥檙e not the right people to hang around with you. Just wave them off and say goodbye. I don鈥檛 want anyone bad hanging around with me.鈥�

How big an influence where you on Wayne when he moved to Manchester United?

鈥淚t was a hard subject because there was a lot going on in the media at that time and to cope with that as well it was pretty hard and it was hard on both families and friends as well because there was a lot of criticism.

鈥淭here were a lot of angry fans. I can understand that at the end of the day, because he鈥檚 a really good player and moving from Everton to Manchester United. But it happens in life you know, you get jobs, you move up in your job.

鈥淢y family are Liverpool supporters and Wayne鈥檚 family are Everton supporters so there鈥檚 a bit of a mixture there. I support Liverpool myself so to go to Manchester United as well was a pretty hard subject for both our families!

鈥淏ut it鈥檚 him that counts and whatever is best for him. So he chose to go and he鈥檚 had a fantastic time there.

You鈥檙e always being pursued by the paparazzi.

鈥淵ou just get used to it. There are places where you go and you don鈥檛 expect them to be and you just have to get on with it.

鈥淚 think because Wayne was in the media spotlight first and I got brought in to it, we learnt off each other and we help each other out.

鈥淭he photographers, sometimes you get annoyed but they were the ones that took that first photograph of me in my school uniform. And that鈥檚 where it鈥檚 all come from now. So I can鈥檛 be nasty to them all the time.

鈥淭here鈥檚 been a lot [in the press] about the birthday party. By the sounds of it I鈥檝e got a bigger line up than Live8 had. I鈥檓 just going to have a nice night and celebrate it with all my friends and family.鈥�

鈥淓verybody says 鈥榃here鈥檚 your favourite place in the world?鈥� And I say Liverpool, because I鈥檓 a home bird and I鈥檒l never want to go away.鈥�