Phoebe Burgess wears a VERY high-cut black swimsuit as she hits the beach in Noosa and reads a novel about a ‘wronged wife’

Phoebe Burgess enjoyed a family day out on Noosa Main Beach on Tuesday.

The former NRL WAG, 36, appeared in jovial spirits as she relaxed in the sunshine with her two children Poppy, seven, and Billy, five, who she shares with her ex Sam.

She flaunted her Pilates-honed physique in a very high-cut black one piece, which she styled with a burnt orange sarong.

She shielded her face with a wide-brimmed straw cowboy hat and oval sunglasses while she relaxed in the sunshine and enjoyed a swim in the sea.

She was joined by her mother Sarah Hooke as they made the most of some family time together with Phoebe’s two children.

Phoebe was also seen reading Maggie Alderson’s novel Would You Rather, a book about a ‘wronged wife’ after her own cheating heartbreak. 

The tale is described as a ‘heartwarming family drama novel’.

According to a synopsis, it follows a woman calls Sophie who is left devastated after finding out her husband Matt was having an affair before his sudden death.

A line reads: ‘Sophie blinked and looked down again, relieved that everyone would think she was overcome with devastation at the prospect of reading her husband’s eulogy, not that she was in shock, having just looked right into the eyes of his mistress.’

Phoebe and her NRL star ex-husband Sam famously made headlines when the sportsman admitted to cheating on her during their four-year marriage.

The couple tied the knot in 2015 but went their separate ways in late 2018, before briefly rekindling things in April 2019, only to split for good just six months later.

Former Rabbitohs star Sam later admitted to cheating on Phoebe and told how he ’embarrassed’ his wife with his behaviour.

‘I don’t think I was the greatest husband at times. I embarrassed my wife. I’d had an affair with a girl, a woman in Melbourne. That’s true,’ he previously said on SAS Australia.

‘I was away on tour, and regretfully that happened. Which would have been… it would have been a tough place for Phoebe to be.’

While pregnant with their son Billy in late 2018, Phoebe said she underwent multiple tests for sexually transmitted infections as a result of Sam’s cheating.

She claimed that during the pregnancy, she also suffered because of Sam’s ‘substance- induced screaming rages’.

‘These were things that I shouldn’t have been tolerating in a relationship,’ she told The Australian.

‘I was still protecting someone who was broken and behaving in such an abhorrent way, you know, leading up to the birth of my son, the drugs, the alcohol, partying, the benders, the begging.’

Sam discussed his drug and alcohol abuse on SAS Australia, and attended rehab in 2021. 

The sportsman has since moved on with fashion designer Lucy Graham and the couple got married in October, just one year after welcoming their first child together.

Lucy took on her new husband Sam’s surname following the wedding, while Phoebe has also kept the surname ‘Burgess’.

Phoebe has not reverted back to her maiden name ‘Hooke’ because she wants to have the same surname as their two children.