THESE days, you can find and even chat to with hotties on Instagram and the notorious subscription site OnlyFans.
However, long before social media had become such an integral part of our daily lives, you’d find heaps of admirers legging to their local corner shop – where they’d snap up a glossy lads’ magazine.
From FHM to Loaded, to Nuts and Zoo, the options were practically endless, filled with after page of sexy and busty bombshells.
Then arrived the 2000s.
The global internet boon and changing views on glamour modelling hit the industry hard, leaving many faces – once plastered across bedroom walls all over the country – hunting for fresh gigs.
According to a report by The Sun, from homelessness and post-natal depression to a 26-year age gap marriage, here’s where the 90s glamour models are now, decades after their racy stints.
Keeley Hazell
Keeley was skyrocketed into fame when she won the Daily Star’s Search for a Beach Babe contest aged just 17.
The young beauty quickly won hearts with her playful attitude and comments, such as: "If I’m swimming in a pool and my bikini pops off, I’m not bothered – I’ll just carry on."
The Londoner soon became a fan favourite, landing gigs with Loaded, Nuts, Zoo, and FHM, which dubbed her Kentish melon farmer.
At the peak of her career, Keeley was living out her wildest dreams, ”travelling all the time”
”I was earning a lot of money. At the time you don’t realise and I look back and think ‘that was crazy,” said the former Page 3 girl who turned 38 last September.
Keeley once topped the list as the glamour model with more racy snaps than anyone else – but she hung up her bikini in 2009 when her earnings plummeted from a whopping £30,000 a shoot to a measly £1,000 due to dipping magazine sales.
Gail Porter
Gail, from Edinburgh, Scotland, initially made a name for herself after she hosted Fully Booked and Top of the Pops.
The Scottish TV personality soon expanded her career to become a favourite of the lads’ mags in the late 1990s and even had her naked rear projected onto the Houses of Parliament to promote FHM magazine’s 100 sexiest women poll in 1999.
Gail Porter was residing in London.
Abi Titmuss
Abi Titmuss shot to fame in the noughties as John Leslie’s girlfriend, appearing in a threesome sex tape with the disgraced ex-Blue Peter host, before going on to start a new life in the US.
Abi famously ranked seventh by FHM in their 2005 list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
Kelly Brook
With envious curves, it’s no wonder that Kelly Brook was once crowned FHM’s Sexiest Woman in the World.
Having burst onto the glamour scene in 1997, Kelly soon became adored by readers as a Page 3 icon, and graced FHM’s Sexiest countdown with her presence annually until its closure in 2015.
Leilani Dowding
Leilani Dowding didn’t have just stunning looks – the brainy beauty studied economics at the University of London and claimed the title of Miss Great Britain before becoming a hit on lads’ mags.
However, she ditched it all for a life in Los Angeles in the mid-noughties, where she later married Raquel Welch’s ex-husband, restaurant mogul Richie Palmer.
Katie Price
Perhaps Katie Price wouldn’t be the household name she is now if it hadn’t been for her pal who suggested Katie to have professional snaps taken of her.
The photos were then sent to a modelling agency in London and in 1996 we were introduced to Jordan, her pseudonym, on Page 3 – and the rest is history.
As Jordan, Price was famed for her surgically enhanced breasts, after first increasing her natural 32B to a 32FF when she was just 20.
According to The Sun, Katie also regularly appeared in the Daily Star, FHM, the British edition of Playboy, Nuts, Maxim, Loaded, Vogue and Esquire and also more bizarrely, attempted to have a career in politics.
