BRITAIN’S top Playboy model has launched a GoFundMe page to try and raise cash to buy a houseboat after she was made homeless due to the cost-of-living crisis.
Stunning Louise Glover, 42, told The Sun how she had been left with no choice but to pitch up in a £60 tent – because of “impossible” rent hikes six-months ago.
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The model, who once lived in the Playboy Mansion, has now set up the crowdfunding platform to attempt to get around £9,000 to buy a boat she can make her own.
Speaking to The Sun last night, Louise, who is currently back living in her tent, said getting a boat would finally make her “safe” and “secure.”
The qualified Personal Trainer added: “I am applying for a lot of jobs and trying my best to find work. But it is so hard.
“I am hoping to go back to personal training and dog walking businesses once I am in one area again, then I can do my businesses again.
“Because otherwise I am all over the place so I can’t be committed to anything.
“People say to me, ‘Go get a job.’
“But I am all over the place. I am still homeless, so I am living day to day. “
Glamour girl Louise had been renting a room for £550-per-month in a shared home in the affluent town of Windsor, Bucks.
But she struggled to make ends meet after her businesses hit a lull at the same time her rent rocketed to £750.
I am all over the place. I am still homeless, so I am living day to day
Louise Glover
The brunette, who earned hundreds of pounds per day at the height of her 20-year modelling career, wrote on the GoFundMe page: “I’m trying to raise enough money to move forward to buy a small cabin boat to live on – something dry, safe, and simple, the boat doesn’t have to be perfect, just functional.
“For someone like me, a boat offers stability, affordable and realistic long-term housing solution.
“It gives me independence, security, and a chance to finally exhale. I’ll have a roof over my head, a door I can lock, and a space to call my own.”
It is a far cry from her days partying with Paris Hilton and Leonardo DiCaprio, while living at the late Hefner’s sprawling estate.
After getting her first gig with Playboy following a test shoot in London aged 20, she went on to be the first Briton to be crowned the magazine’s Model of the Year.
Described as the “British Carmen Electra” by multi-millionaire Hugh, Louise spent her twenties jetting around the world attending celebrity bashes and posing for photoshoots.
She would return to her base at Playboy boss Hefner’s mansion, where she had a room rent-free with champagne on tap.
During the world-famous parties at the notorious £77million pad, Louise hung out with celebrity royalty such as DiCaprio, Rihanna, Matthew Perry, Snoop Dogg and Paris.
I loved all the other Playboy models, we were like a family
Louise Glover
She previously said: “It was the best time, like another world.
“I didn’t even think about it that much at the time, but I was hanging out with the biggest names in the world.
“I loved all the other Playboy models, we were like a family.
“I really liked Hugh, he was a total gentleman.
“The mansion was incredible, there was even a zoo there. Everything was pink and had the Playboy Bunny logo on it.
“We had these wild parties. I once got my body painted and we all danced around Snoop Dogg as he performed on stage at the house.”
But when she was 27, Louise contracted septicemia following breast implant surgery and went into cardiac arrest. It left her in hospital for five weeks.
She said: “I nearly died because I was so ill from the infection. That was a wake-up call for me.
She decided to move away from her party lifestyle to focus on fitness and wellbeing. Louise recalled: “I started to train and moved into fitness and lifestyle modelling. I had deals with most of the major brands.
“Nike sponsored me and I felt like I was on the up again.”
She won first place at the Miami Pro Universe Championships and got a string of other fitness titles.
Having become a personal trainer, last year she travelled to Dubai to launch her PT classes there and carry out some promo work for Formula One and rugby.
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