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Leah Newman's household philosophy

Leah Newman
Within this house, I am mother and wife. Razor believes in traditional roles – he brings in the money whilst I care for him, our daughter Izzabella Ivy Grace Ruddock (but everyone calls her Pebbles!) and the home. It's not exactly my idea of heaven but what can you do?

Pebbles is only seven months old so a lot of my time is taken up looking after her. My life changed dramatically when I got together with Razor two years ago.

Before I met him, I was a 23-year-old glamour model with a brilliant social life at the best hang outs in London - now I'm a 25-year-old mum and wife.

I really miss the social side of my job and the social life that I had. Razor hates that scene though and wouldn't like it if I was going out to places like Chinawhite.

So my days now are spent cooking, cleaning and looking after Razor and the baby. It's a bit boring really. Sometimes I feel like a prisoner in this house. I can't drive so I have to rely on Razor to take me places - but he'll only do that if it fits in with his schedule.

He's always down the pub whilst I'm at home with Pebbles and the dogs. So there's not much else to do apart from keep the house clean!

That's kind of like therapy to me really - I keep myself busy by looking after the house. And nobody else is going to do it anyway! Certainly not Razor, that's for sure.

Leah's rules

1. Michael, you do too much in this house - all the cleaning, all the cooking, all the shopping. You deserve to be looked after, so tonight I'm going to make dinner for you.

2. Being here has really made me decide that I want to go back to work, so I'd like to do a glamour shoot and I'd like you to take photos behind the scenes.

3. You love photography, but you can't do it because Pete is so demanding. I'm going to help you put on an exhibition of your photographs.

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