Jesinta Franklin's heartbreak as she says she misses her Sydney Swans star husband Buddy who's spent the last month interstate playing AFL amid the  Covid outbreak chaos 

Jesinta Franklin spoke about missing her husband of five years, Lance 'Buddy' Franklin, in a heartfelt post on Instagram on Tuesday.

The 29-year-old model revealed her AFL star husband had been away from home for a month after entering the football hub in Victoria .

'Lockdown love 4 weeks without @buddy_franklin23. We miss you! X,' Sydney-based Jesinta captioned the post, tagging Buddy, 34.

She also included a black and white photo of the couple's four-month-old son Rocky's feet.

In addition to Rocky, Jesinta and Buddy are also parents to a 17-month-old daughter, Tullulah.

In an interview with POPSUGAR Australia earlier this month, Buddy spoke about how difficult it was to be away from his young family. 

'We take everything one day at a time,' the Sydney Swans star admitted. 

'I'm sure all parents have found it challenging with COVID and the lockdowns that have been in place… 

'I'm separated from Jes and the kids at the moment and it's really hard to be away… there are lots of FaceTime calls in between, which really helps.'

The Sydney Swans entered the AFL hub in Victoria around three weeks ago, just before Sydney's COVID crisis worsened.

The main aim of the hub is to protect the health and wellbeing of the team by creating a quarantine bubble around them.

But with many players separated from their families, the AFL is now considering quarantining spouses and children for 14 days in order to reunite them.  

It's not the first time Buddy has been separated from his family during the pandemic, after he was forced to enter a 'quarantine hub' this time last year, too.

'Not sure when I'll see my husband next, he's gone into an AFL quarantine hub for an unspecified amount of time. We already miss you @buddy_franklin23,' Jesinta wrote on Instagram in July 2020. 

In a second post on Instagram Stories at the time, Jesinta revealed Buddy had packed some children's books so he could still read to their daughter over FaceTime while he was away.