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Wayne Rooney spoke to his former Manchester United and England teammate Rio Ferdinand.<\/p>\n
Former England and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has revealed he is \u201cinsecure\u201d about his weight and struggled with his body image during his playing career.<\/p>\n
Rooney, 39, told former team-mate Rio Ferdinand that he would not take his top off \u201ceven when I was the best shape as a football player\u201d and said he felt self-conscious even though he was \u201cstrong and powerful\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m actually very insecure about a number of things. I have been my whole career over my weight, over how I look,\u201d United\u2019s all-time record goalscorer said on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven when I was in the best shape I was in as a football player, I wouldn\u2019t take my top off. I was strong, I was powerful. I never had abs but I was powerful – the best body you need to be a footballer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferdinand was surprised to hear Rooney\u2019s struggles with his body image and said it \u201cnever occurred to me\u201d that his team-mate was hiding how he looked. \u201cUntil now I never would have said that,\u201d Ferdinand replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are in a bubble,\u201d Rooney said. \u201cYou\u2019re meant to be this macho guy who is going and playing football and being successful. But a lot of the time, you are vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rooney also told Ferdinand he believes he would be \u201cdead\u201d without his wife Coleen Rooney helping him through dark times and his problems with alcohol.<\/p>\n
Rooney told Ferdinand that his drinking would often go \u201ctoo far\u201d and revealed he once turned up to training at United after binging for \u201ctwo days straight\u201d.<\/p>\n
“It got to a point where I went too far, of course it did,\u201d Rooney said. He revealed he was “struggling massively” with his drinking during his playing career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney spoke to his former Manchester United and England teammate Rio Ferdinand. Former England and Manchester United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,917,112],"class_list":["post-42592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-united","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}