An influencer who had a ten-year affair says she relates to Lauryn Goodman for texting the wife of Kyle Walker to say she had a second child with him.

Carla Bellucci, 42, did a similar thing when she messaged a woman to say she had been sleeping with her husband behind her back.

The mum-of-four ended up marrying the bloke she was secretly in a relationship with in a lavish wedding last summer in Cape Verde.

The Manchester City defender is now single after childhood sweetheart wife Annie Kilner gave him the boot - and he has publicly apologised for his "horrible" behaviour.

But Carla believes women married to footballers should not be surprised about infidelity scandals. She told us: "I did exactly the same as Lauryn Goodman and I told my husband's partner that we had an affair for ten years.

"I told her by text and sent her pictures of us on holiday together. Obviously it worked out for me and we are now happy and married.

"I told her not to necessarily get him to be with me but for her to open her eyes and show her she needs to wake up. I honest to god don't know how women say they had no idea like come on?

"Why are we to blame? They always blame the women. If we are single we owe them nothing. It's the one who is married who should know better."

She said: "Yes of course, it's bloody s*** for her. What a situation to be in but it's not the first time he has been caught so she must be accepting. Each to their own but I wouldn't want a guy that's done that to me - I would run a mile."

Carla's own teenage daughter has been hit on by a Premier League star in the past - and Tanisha Bellucci revealed how she was made to feel like a "pizza order".

And her mum believes many sportsmen like Walker are love rats and she added: "I do believe it's what you sign up for because 98% of footballers are cheats and I have never met one that isn't.

"No one deserves it but I guess that's the price you pay to be with footballers. Yes you get the lifestyle and the fame and money and I think women know that's the name of the game when you get with a footballer and that's what you sign up for."

As for her own affair with current husband Giovanni Pincay, she said she saw him every weekend for ten years without his partner knowing. They also went on three holidays a year together and he spent time with her children.

"I assumed at one point she must have known as we were always together and he stayed out every weekend so what else would be doing?"

Finally, if she could rewind time, would she still have texted her to spill the beans or would she have preferred Giovanni to have simply broken up with her himself.

She said: "Obviously it would have made my life so much easier for him to tell her and I wouldn't ever get myself in that situation again.

"I have learnt it hurts so many people but I still think I would tell her because no matter how much of a plank the wife is they still don't deserve to be mugged off."