Tracy Harrison grew up in a Willenhall council house where a dinner of egg and chips was the highlight of the week.

However, at just 21 years old she was living in Beverley Hills and sipping cocktails in the Playboy Mansion.

Tracy has spent most of her adult life living in the lap of luxury and at one point was paid £40,000 for a photo session.

However, now she has returned to the home she grew up in, sold her expensive jewellery and collects £50 a week in Jobseekers allowance.

The former page three girl has vowed that if someone gave her a job she would give half her wages to charity.

“I don’t need much money to live on and I’m so bored being in the house not doing anything,” says Tracy, who lives in Essington Road.

“I do a lot of work for charity and I’m sure there must be someone out there that can employ me.”

After leaving Pool Hayes Comprehensive School, Tracy went to work at Ferranti in Perry Barr where she was helping to inspect ammunitions.

After working there for two years she saved up enough money to go and visit a friend, Penny Emes, in Beverley Hills.

“Penny worked on films and she knew someone who worked for Playboy, so she helped me get my foot in the door,” says Tracy.

“I went from having to catch three buses to get to my job in Perry Barr to living in a city where no-one walks – everyone has a car in Beverley Hills.”

Tracy, 46, says she wasn’t nervous about doing her first naked photo shoot, which took place in front of two photographers, a make-up artist and a studio manager.

“I’ve always had a lot of confidence and I loved every minute of it – although my first experience of modelling was pretty embarrassing,” she says.

“When I arrived at the studio the photographer told me to go and get my purse.

“So, I went out and walked back into the room totally naked, except for my purse, which I held strategically in front of me.

“I think I shocked them all because they had meant me to go and get changed and come back in a robe – but I was young and didn’t understand what I had to do.”

Tracy was paid £40,000 for that first photo shoot and after that the jobs started to flow in her direction.

She spent nearly two years in Beverley Hills, bumping into Barry Manilow every Friday morning in his favourite cafe and spotting stars such as Michael Caine, Joan Collins, Roger Moore and Jackie Collins out for dinner together.

“The four of them all walked towards me in a restaurant and I was so bowled over I said ‘hello’,” laughed Tracy. “Both Michael Caine and Roger Moore stopped and asked if I was from England – they were so lovely.”

Tracy was invited to the Playboy Mansion where she enjoyed cocktails in the spa bath and made friends with the rich and famous.

It was a far cry from sipping a pint at her local pub The Milestone in Willenhall.

“I went back home because I missed my parents Fred and Claire, who have both passed away now,” says Tracy, who helps to raise money for charities such as St Mary’s Hospice in Birmingham, the British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research.

“They were both very supportive of my career and were just pleased that I was happy.

“Someone from Playboy had put me in touch with a page three photographer and so I was able to carry on my career back here in England, getting paid around £500 per photo.”

The high life continued for Tracy, who spent 15 years living on a luxury yacht at Monaco in the South of France with a boyfriend.

“When I came home we would pull up at mum and dad’s house in a Ferrari – it was odd to see it sitting out there on our little drive,” says Tracy who was the youngest of five children with her other siblings David, Mary, Pat and Maureen.

However, four years ago Tracy’s relationship ended and she came back to England.

First of all she worked for Guess UK in London but when that finished she arrived back in Willenhall and tried to get a job.

“Finding a job is really tough because as soon as you apply for something, you discover the vacancy has already been filled,” she says.

“Since coming home I have sold all my diamonds – everything has gone and I’m living in the house I was born in.

“I’ve discovered that as soon as employers find about my modelling past they don’t want anything to do with me.

“I always said that when I became a model it felt like I had fallen into a film star’s life – it is sad, but now I’m paying the price for all that glamour and excitement.”

* Can you offer Tracy a job? If so contact her on 07845 827248.