Ayda Field felt so "blessed" to be able to secretly renew her vows with Robbie Williams.
The 45-year-old model - who been married to former Take That star Robbie, 50, since 2010 and has Teddy, 11, Charlie, nine, Coco, five, and four-year-old Beau with him - had been making plans for a vow renewal when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, but didn't mind having to wait four years because it ended up being a jovial occasion that helped deal with her mother's cervical cancer diagnosis.
Speaking on UK TV show 'Loose Women' she said: "It was 14 years, which is not the typical number you do but it's the number we did. We were gonna do it for our 10 year but that was COVID, so that did not work out.
"We kept delaying it, we thought we'd wait til 15 but then everything that's going on with my mum's health, we just decided to to it this year. It was, as the universe lined up, the day before she started radiation and it was such a blessing to come together as a family."
The former 'X Factor' judge also noted that upon the big day in August, it meant so much more than it ever did when they said their vows initially because of how much they have been through as a couple since.
She said: "Like any young married couple, most young married couples, you haven't really faced much. You haven't raised children, maybe haven't lost any parents. No sicknesses that are very serious. And in this case, all of those things have happened. We're facing a real life moment in our family and now we have four kids, Rob's gone through health battles.
"The first time we just said 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do' but it doesn't really mean anything. And this time, it had so much meaning and we wrote our own vows to each other. They were 14 years of a life together as a married couple, and there was real substance to the words."
