Penny Lancaster-Stewart has been diagnosed with dyslexia. <br /><br />The 46-year-old model - who is married to musician Sir Rod Stewart - has "always known" she had the common learning difficulty, but she's recently had her assumption confirmed by an expert.<br /><br />Despite this, Penny has thanked her husband for giving her "so much confidence" to confront the situation, which she'd previously agonized about.<br /><br />By contrast, Penny said that one of her former teachers drained her of self-belief.<br />She recalled: "My dad used to take me to extra English classes after one teacher said to him, 'Why bother, she'll never amount to anything.'<br />"That just totally floored him."<br /><br />Penny and Sir Rod married in 2007, and the couple - who have two children together - renewed their wedding vows in a romantic ceremony last year.<br />
