Kyle Walker has denied purchasing personalized football kits for his two young children with Laura Goodman.
The 34-year-old Manchester City player and his wife Annie Kilner have four children: Roman (11), Riaan (7), Reign (5), and Rezon (five months). He has two children, 13-month-old Kinara and four-year-old Kairo, from an affair with Lauren.
When it was discovered that he had fathered two children with the model, he became entangled in a paternity scandal and a court battle.
Kyle Walker has denied buying personalised football kits for the two young children he shares with Lauryn Goodman (Kairo pictured)
Lauryn outfitted her son Kairo and daughter Kinara in full football uniforms, while Kyle and Annie’s boys wore his No. 2 shirt to matches.
She initially claimed that the player had purchased the outfits for Kairo and Kinara, but a source now tells MailOnline that he did not personalise the shirts, and Lauryn had them personalised herself.
The 34-year-old Manchester City star and his wife Annie Kilner have five children: Roman, 11, Riaan, seven, Reign, five, and Rezon, five months old. He also has 13-month-old Kinara and Kairo, four, from an affair with Lauryn.
Kyle ordered one basic kit for Kairo, while Lauryn purchased another for Kinara.
‘She customized both with Daddy’s name and phone number. That component has nothing to do with Kyle.
Lauryn’s decision to take Kairo to see his father Kyle perform in Germany drew praise and controversy.
The influencer attended England’s game against Denmark at Deutsche Bank Park stadium in Frankfurt, in June and was pictured carrying Kairo – who waved an England flag – in her arms as she arrived at the stadium.
While some social media users claimed Lauryn should have ‘stayed away’ from the game, others praised Lauryn for going.
Although Annie was present at every England match, she had apparently vowed ‘not to play happy families’ with her husband in Germany after Kyle admitted to fathering Kinara.
Annie sat with other WAGs to support her husband, while Lauryn sat in a separate stand with her grandfather.
‘I can’t tell you how excited he was,’ said Lauryn, in an exclusive interview with the Mail. ‘He was jumping up and down.’
He became embroiled in a paternity scandal and courtroom showdown when it emerged he had fathered two children with the model
As England played in the Euro’s Lauryn dressed her son Kairo and daughter Kinara in full football kits
The boys Kyle shares with Annie were also seen at the matches wearing his No. 2 shirt (Annie pictured on Friday)
A source said: ‘Kyle bought one plain kit for Kiaro and then Lauryn went out and bought another for Kinara. She had them both personalised with Daddy and his number herself’
Lauryn took Kairo to see his dad Kyle play in Germany and received both praise and criticism for her decision
She revealed to that her main motivation behind the Frankfurt trip was to keep a promise Kyle had made to their son in 2022 — when she was secretly pregnant with their second child — and he was playing at the Qatar World Cup.
‘Kyle told him on a FaceTime call that he would make sure he was at the next tournament because [Kyle] is getting older, and he knew there would perhaps not be any more opportunities.
‘There was no way I wasn’t going to take Kairo to the Euros,’ said Lauryn. ‘There was no way I was not going to uphold the promise that Kyle made to his son. This could have been his last chance so I wanted it to be something that Kairo could remember for ever.
‘We are not here to please other people. It’s about Kairo and what is best for him and what is going to make him happy.
‘I won’t be scapegoated or bullied and made to feel like a villain. My children are my number one priority and they always will be. Luckily I’m a strong woman and mother for them.’
The affair began when Lauryn met Kyle in 2019, when he was on a break from Annie.
Despite his infidelity and the birth of son Kairo, Kyle and Annie stayed together in Cheshire while Lauryn raised her son hundreds of miles away in Brighton.
Although Annie was present at every England match, she had apparently vowed ‘not to play happy families’ with her husband in Germany after Kyle admitted to fathering Kinara
Annie evicted Kyle from their family home in Prestbury, Cheshire, and he relocated into a nearby flat.
Then, last December, it was revealed that Lauryn’s daughter, born last summer, was also Kyle’s.
Annie evicted Kyle from their family home in Prestbury, Cheshire, and he relocated into a nearby flat.
However, after Annie gave birth to a fourth boy in April, they have begun to heal their marriage, purportedly under the condition that Kyle break off all contact with Lauryn and their children.
Meanwhile, Lauryn is raising her children as a single mother in a £2.4 million mansion in Hove, East Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍, which Kyle purchased for them as part of his maintenance payments.