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Louise Glover
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Louise Glover, born on February 8, 1983, in St Helens, Merseyside, England, is an English model, beauty queen, and photographer.

Glover is well known from her work as a glamour model, with appearances in British lad mags, including FHM, Bizarre, Maxim, Loaded, and tabloids such as the News of the World, The Sun and The Daily Star. She is the first British model to be named "Model of the Year" in Playboy Special Editions. Glover grew up with a troubled childhood, with drug abusing parents, in foster care, and eventually living alone from the age of 15. She struggled to become a model from an early age. At the start of her career, she was sentenced to community service for not reporting her early earnings while receiving welfare. Glover has been a continued participant in and supporter of the charity Raleigh International, which she credits for contributing to her early motivation.

Glover had a troubled childhood; her parents had problems with drugs and spent time in jail. She ended up growing up partly in St Helens with her father's family, partly in Great Yarmouth with her mother's, and partly in foster care, which, she says, led to her being bullied and made her a very shy and quiet child. She changed homes and schools many times. At age 15, she was released from foster care, and got her own apartment. Glover had started her modelling career early, when at the age of 9, a photographer noticed her on a shopping trip with her mother, and compared her to a young version of Lorraine Chase from the British TV show Emmerdale.

Glover found she enjoyed being photographed, and planned to become a professional model from the age of 12. She began entering modelling contests at the age of 14, and beauty pageants, to get noticed as a model. She was a regional finalist for the top beauty title Miss Great Britain at the age of 17, and traveled to London to be a national finalist at the age of 18, while studying Holistic Therapy at St Helens College. Living on her own in the charitable Grosvenor Housing Association's Ravenhead Foyer in St. Helens, Glover had to appeal to others for financial support for the contest entry fee and travel costs.

Glover found time to raise funds to help others, however, traveling to Belize in 2000 with a Raleigh International project, and to Israel in 2001, to teach English language to disadvantaged children. The ten weeks in Belize had a great impact on her motivation. "It was the best thing I could have ever done at that point in my life", she says.[4] At age 19, she represented Great Britain in the Miss Earth contest in the Philippines. Soon after, her modelling offers increased ten fold.  

Glover began getting paid modelling work in 2002. In 2003, at the age of 20, she had a breast enlargement from a 34A to a 34D, paid for as a Christmas present from her family, since she couldn't afford the £3300 herself. It was later reduced to 34C in 2007, with multiple breast reduction surgeries, as she claimed to be going for "a more natural look". She became known as a glamour model, appearing nude or scantily dressed in British lad mags, including FHM, Bizarre, Maxim, Loaded, and tabloids News Of The World, The Sun and The Daily Star. She was featured in TV shows and documentaries including Dream Team, National IQ Test, Blaggers and Secrets of the Sex Goddesses.

Glover has also appeared as a clothing model, for Ed Hardy clothing, Sex Symbol denim wear, Austin Reed ladies wear, and on front covers, photo shoots and interviews for magazines in South America, USA, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Russia, South Africa, and Australia. Glover kept supporting Raleigh International after her modelling success, raising funds for the group, and traveling to Malaysia in 2004 to help build a footbridge and teach English to residents of a remote village.[14] She climbed Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Malaysia, to help Raleigh International raise funds. She ran in the 2005 London Marathon to raise money for Cancer Research UK.  

Glover says appearing in Playboy magazine was an important goal for her ever since becoming a glamour model. She met publisher Hugh Hefner during a photo shoot in Los Angeles, when she was 21. He offered her a test shoot, and she visited the Playboy Mansion. Glover appeared on the cover of Playboy Vixens magazine in January 2006, in the "Top 100 Sexiest Playboy Models" 2006 pictorial special edition, and won Playboy Special Editions Model of the Year 2006; she was the first British winner. To celebrate her success, she was portrayed on the cover and inside a special edition of Playboy Lingerie, which she calls possibly her favorite magazine cover.

Glover became the UK's Penthouse "Pet of the Month" for March 2007 after posing for a celebrity cover and 10 page feature. She has appeared in the American edition of Playboy magazine for September 2007, and on the cover of Playboy France. Her beauty pageants also continued, and after three tries, she won Miss Hawaiian Tropic UK 2007, and competed in the international finals in Las Vegas, Nevada. Besides modelling, Glover has attempted to expand her career into other areas, as a fall-back if she can't make it as a model. She has maintained a web site as a professional photographer since 2004. In 2006 Glover co-launched an adult lingerie online store called Female Bliss, and signed a contract with a Swedish record label as an aspiring singer. In 2007, she appeared in her first music video acting role, for Scouting for Girls' single "She's So Lovely". In 2007, Glover was interested in expanding from glamour modelling into fitness modelling, and was in talks with WWE to become a professional wrestler, which were put on hold due to her lack of US citizenship.