Sara Gundogan discusses challenges of WAG life & having her achievements reduced

Sara Gundogan has opened up on the sacrifices she has made since becoming a WAG and the impact this has had on her life.

Gundogan, previously Sara Arfaoui, started dating Barcelona and Germany star Ilkay Gundogan in 2021 before they tied the knot a year later. They have one son together, Kais, who was born in March 2023.

She is one of the stars of Prime Video's new series Married To The Game which follows the lives of five football WAGS, aiming to give an insight into the reality of dating a top-level footballer.

Sara was a highly-successful TV presenter and model before meeting Ilkay, while she also featured in several films and was a reality TV star.

However, since marrying Ilkay and originally moving to Manchester, before relocating again this summer, Sara's career has had to take a back-seat and the 28-year-old opened up on the challenges she has faced.

'As a wife sometimes you are on the side,' she exclusively told Mail Sport. 'But it was hard because despite my work as a TV presenter, the fact I speak six languages and travelled the world as a model, when I was him, everything I did, suddenly it became zero and I just became his wife.

'The people knew me before as a media star but when I became a wife, there is the tendency of the press to show wives of players in a certain way and it's like we have to fit this cliche.

'I lost a bit my spontaneity, my way of speaking without thinking. So yeah, it's a bit hard, because you have to also rebuild yourself and find your own identity.

'It's kind of sad because there is no other sport, there is nothing similar, say in cinema or politics, that will describe a wife of an important politician that way.'

Sara went onto explain how she has had to turn down several career