A single clue: Phoebe Burgess took to Facebook on Boxing Day to make a strong statement hinting at split from NRL star husband Sam before the pair announced their marriage was over after just three years
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It was revealed last week that Sam and Phoebe Burgess separated shortly before Christmas, just weeks after the birth of their second child.
But Phoebe had made a fairly strong statement on social media, hinting at the split, prior to the announcement.
The 29-year-old took to Facebook on Boxing Day to change her profile photo for the first time in two years.
A solo clue: Phoebe Burgess (pictured) took to Facebook on Boxing Day to make a strong statement hinting at split from NRL star husband Sam before the pair announced their marriage was over after just three years
The photograph she chose is a solo shot in which she is broadly smiling with a choppy bob haircut.
Her prior profile photo, first uploaded in March 2016, showed Phoebe with Sam on their wedding day.
Phoebe’s two prior profile photo changes were of snaps that pictured both herself and her husband.
Alone: The 29-year-old took to Facebook on Boxing Day to change her profile photo for the first time in two years, a solo shot in which she is broadly smiling with a choppy bob haircut
Whisked out of sight: Her prior profile photo, first uploaded in March 2016, showed Phoebe with Sam on their wedding day
Changes: Phoebe’s two prior profile photo changes were to snaps that pictured both herself and her husband
In 2015, she used a different photo from the pair’s luxurious Bowral wedding day, in which she was holding her husband’s hand and turning back to the camera.
Earlier in 2015, another profile photo changed showed Phoebe and Sam smiling in the back of a car.
Her most recent change, made on December 26, is her first solo profile photo in three years – Sam has featured all the others since 2015.
The pair’s split was announced last week and described as ‘pretty messy’.
Over: It was revealed last week that Sam and Phoebe separated shortly before Christmas, just weeks after the birth of their second child. (Pictured: Sam and Phoebe Burgess)
Wed: The pair married in December 2015 at Phoebe’s parents’ home in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales
A close friend of the former couple told The Daily Telegraph that ‘things have been bad for a while’.
Sam and Phoebe first met at an Avicii concert in Sydney in January 2014.
Their relationship progressed quickly and just a month later, in October 2014, Phoebe relocated to England to support her boyfriend after he signed with a rugby union team in Bath, Somerset.
By June 2015, they were engaged following a romantic holiday in Greece.
Family ties? In January 2017, the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Poppy Alice (pictured) who will soon turn two
The couple returned to Sydney in November 2015, after Sam re-signed with the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
They married a month later in December 2015 at Phoebe’s parents’ home in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.
In January 2017, the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Poppy Alice, who will soon turn two.
Their second child, son William ‘Billy’ Mark, was born only last month.
Hard times: Their second child, son William ‘Billy’ Mark, was born only last month