Homeless ex-Playboy model hopes for better days ahead

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From partying in the Playboy Mansion to enduring homelessness in the U.K.

That’s the downward trajectory for one former Playboy Model of the Year who has traded in a rent-free lifestyle at Hugh Hefner’s lavish L.A. estate for a tent in rural England.

Louise Glover, 41, Playboy’s top model in 2006, was living the high life, partying with some of the world’s biggest celebrities.

The British beauty’s fortunes took a turn in 2010 when she suffered a cardiac arrest following breast implant surgery, and she spent five weeks in hospital.

Today, Glover lives in an $80 tent on a farm in rural Reading, England, and is petrified of her immediate future as the cold weather approaches.

“I don’t have family to fall back on,” the ex-model who was raised in and out of foster homes told the U.K. Sun, per the New York Post.

“I am trying to stay upbeat and make the most of my situation, but it is difficult,” she added. “I need to get myself out of this pickle soon. Things have to change before winter hits.”

She first started modelling at age 20 and quickly gained international attention.

Dubbed the “British Carmen Electra,” she wound up in the U.S. where she posed for Playboy.

“It was the best time, like another world,” said told the U.K. Sun. “I didn’t even think about it that much at the time, but I was hanging out with the biggest names in the world.”

Glover went to parties with stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew Perry and Paris Hilton and soon found herself staying at Hefner’s $100-million mansion.

“We had these wild parties,” she said. “I once got my body painted, and we all danced around Snoop Dogg as he performed on stage at the house.”

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Hefner treated her kindly, she said, and she enjoyed her time in the posh house.

“I loved all the other Playboy models, we were like a family. I really liked Hugh, he was a total gentleman,” she said.

When Glover recovered from her heart attack in 2010, she opted to move into personal training.

“That was a wake-up call for me,” she said of her five-week stint in the hospital.

She contracted septicemia after her implant surgery, causing cardiac arrest.

“I started to train and moved into fitness and lifestyle modelling,” Glover said. “I had deals with most of the major brands. Nike sponsored me, and I felt like I was on the up again.”

Her personal training work dried up, however. That combined with the U.K.’s cost-of-living crisis meant she was struggling to make ends meet.

“It is hard now. I am older, the modelling work isn’t there,” she said. “I’d love to do presenting, and I still do bits of promo work, but I refuse to do anything pornographic.”

Glover said she has “too much self-respect” to consider working as a stripper on to start an X-rated OnlyFans.

Instead, she is trying to recruit new clients for personal training while also trying to start a dog-walking business.

Glover owns the tent, a small stove for cooking, two hot water bottles for warmth — and a sense of optimism despite all the hardship.

“In some ways, I feel calmer now that I am here — because I have less to worry about,” she said. “There have been really special moments. I sat watching the shooting stars the other night, wrapped up in my sleeping bag.”

“My luck will change soon.”