Model and television personality Penny Lancaster has revealed her experience of blending into Rod Stewart 's family, whilst also trying to create her own with the rock legend.

Penny, 54, has been wed to Sir Rod, 80, for 18 years and they share two sons – Alastair, 19, and Aiden, 14 – but when she first joined his clan she had to learn how to fit in.

Rod was already dad to six youngsters when the couple began their romance in 1999, and that was a situation that Penny had to consider when things became more serious.

Chatting to Hello! , she revealed her approach: "I couldn't go in thinking, 'What about me? What do I want?' I had to take myself out of the equation because there was so much to dissect and understand."

"I had to be transparent and genuine and I knew it was going to ta

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