Baking bread along with her two youngsters, including sea moss gel to their porridge or massaging their hair in plant-based masks, Lauryn Goodman seems to have discovered her area of interest as an Instagram Earth mom.
Sharing ideas with hundreds of followers, it’s her newest reinvention after makes an attempt to arrange dwelling along with her former lover, the Manchester Metropolis and England defender Kyle Walker, failed.
Not that Lauryn, 33, didn’t give it her finest shot. For at the moment marks precisely a 12 months since she despatched that explosive textual content to Kyle’s then pregnant spouse Annie Kilner, 31, to tell her that her husband was the daddy of not simply her son, but additionally her child daughter.
‘Hey it’s Lauryn. I simply needed to rapidly inform you that Kyle is the daddy of our daughter. He’s been having a relationship with us all together with the newborn & I’ve obtained all the pieces to show it.’
For sure it wrecked the Walker/Kilner household Christmas, blowing up their lives and sparking the largest off-pitch scandal of 2024 – if not the last decade.
Annie threw Kyle, 34, out of their £4million Cheshire mansion, and as he licked his wounds in a close-by residence, Lauryn might maybe be forgiven for pondering she had an opportunity of beginning a correct life with the footballer and their two youngsters, Kairo, 5, and one-year-old Kinara.
It was to not be – and an annus horribilis ensued for all.
For Annie, who gave delivery to their fourth son in April, the 12 months has been one among separation and divorce papers with solely short-term reveals of togetherness – on the Euros this summer time and most just lately at Christmas, when Annie welcomed Kyle again into the household dwelling for the sake of their boys, Roman, 11, Riaan, seven, Reign, 5, and ten-month-old Rezon.
Lauryn Goodman is refusing to slide quietly into the background to get pleasure from life along with her younger youngsters
Annie Kilner served Kyle Walker divorce papers earlier this 12 months
And regardless of all her hopes, Lauryn isn’t any higher off both. But the fame-hungry mom -of-two remains to be refusing to slide quietly into the background to get pleasure from life along with her younger youngsters. ‘Lauryn has no intention of going wherever,’ says a supply near her. ‘She is throughout Instagram insisting she is the proper Earth mom. The truth is she just lately employed a brand new agent to assist get her work.
‘What she actually desires is to look on a actuality tv present. She has already set former glamour mannequin Nicola McLean the duty of getting her on Celeb Large Brother this 12 months [she was a former contestant on the show].
‘She at all times says she doesn’t need her youngsters to be forgotten however given her willpower to be on TV, you need to surprise if she is the one who’s determined for the limelight, the celebrity and, frankly, to at all times be linked to Kyle. Many ladies would simply benefit from the life and riches with their youngsters.’
Certainly, that’s one thing I begged Lauryn to do final summer time. Forward of her day within the London Household Court docket the place she would face Kyle over little one upkeep points, I advised she settle for a life with out the footballer.
She merely stated she couldn’t, and days later employed a brand new publicist, previously the PR of her shut pal Rebekah Vardy.
All of which makes you surprise: What has really been achieved by this unedifying saga which, sadly, centres round two harmless kids?
Buddies inform me Annie has actually ‘struggled’ and the fiasco has ‘taken its toll on her well being’.
Two months in the past she served Kyle with divorce papers – although it isn’t but recognized if they’re going via with the separation.
Walker with Annie Kilner and their youngsters
The textual content that detonated Kyle Walker’s marriage to Annie
Annie’s anguish is hardly stunning. In addition to studying her husband had cheated for a second time, a court docket battle in July over little one upkeep as soon as once more dragged up the small print of the dalliances and their aftermath.
‘She might have simply taken a really beneficiant monetary provide for the kids from Kyle,’ stated a pal, referring to Lauryn’s pursuit of Kyle for elevated funds over and above the £150,000 a 12 months he already supplies, in addition to a £51,000 automobile allowance each three years and the proper to reside within the Sussex dwelling he purchased outright.
Lauryn needed £60,000 extra to pay for air con and an astroturf soccer pitch for daughter Kinara, as Lauryn desires her to be a Lioness.
Lauryn insisted all she needed was for her two youngsters to have the identical as Annie’s 4 sons.
‘Whereas he’s completely no angel, when it got here to taking care of Kairo and Kinara financially, he very a lot did the proper factor,’ stated a pal of the footballer. ‘His view and that of these round him was he couldn’t be criticised.’
The decide agreed, saying he discovered Walker to be ‘affordable’ and dismissed Lauryn’s claims.
Having didn’t get her personal approach, Lauryn advised me how she thought the decide was ‘star-struck’ by Kyle who had simply reached the ultimate of the Euros, narrowly shedding to Spain.
In addition to shedding her court docket battle, significant fame nonetheless eludes her. After a number of makes an attempt to get on to actuality TV reveals – together with Celeb Large Brother, I’m A Celeb Get Me Out of Right here and others – her look this autumn on E4’s Celebs Go Courting didn’t garner the form of headlines she hoped for.
Her bid to safe her personal fly-on-the-wall TV present, which might have been screened on ITV, has additionally fallen by the wayside.
It began filming this summer time amid controversy over her sister Chloe’s determination to ban her from attending her wedding ceremony in Portugal. But it surely has been shelved amid claims of her tough behaviour and calls for – amongst them an ‘look price’ for Kairo which the manufacturing firm deemed ‘completely ludicrous’.
‘She might have earned an excellent sum from that present nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient for Lauryn,’ stated a supply near the undertaking.
And so the indefatigable Lauryn presses on. She has launched a podcast, broadcast from the £2.5million dwelling paid for by Kyle, wherein she continues to rant to shut associates concerning the footballer’s absence as a father. And he or she has a weblog, wherein she seeks to reposition herself as a contemporary mum, usually selling merchandise alongside New Age parenting ideas.
As a pal defined: ‘She’s making an attempt all the pieces now, launching all these different platforms.’
And littered among the many seemingly innocuous product suggestions are her traditional barbed remarks directed at these she feels might have wronged her.
‘It wouldn’t be an enormous shock if she oversteps the mark in some unspecified time in the future,’ the pal added. ‘It’s simply ranting – she doesn’t appear to know that phrases have penalties.’
Maybe her attendance at a parliamentary dialogue on little one upkeep earlier this month will go some method to change that.
Assembly with Labour MP Peter Kyle to debate points surrounding the Baby Upkeep Service, Lauryn bemoaned the hardships of counting on a rich former lover to pay her approach and a supposed lack of assist from the authorities.
No surprise associates are asking, no matter subsequent? ‘The 12 months of insanity is unquestionably over,’ one stated. ‘Her New 12 months’s decision must be fairly easy. It’s time for her to get a job.’
How possible that shall be is anybody’s guess.
Final week she partied late into the night time at two Mayfair nightclubs fashionable with high footballers – Bagatelle and close by Mistress of Mayfair – the place she was amongst a gaggle of girls having fun with drinks purchased by Kyle’s England teammate, goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.
Can this leopard ever change her spots?
‘She’s solely considering fame and cash,’ says one supply.
‘She glues herself to footballers at each alternative. And this has brought about untold damage for thus many individuals.’
