Stunning pin-ups who vanished off the radar…Emmerdale star voted UK’s hottest to FHM ‘sexiest woman’ who joined sex cult

SHE was the tennis pin-up who was erstwhile named the sexiest pistillate connected the planet.

Anna Kournikova won a expansive slam astatine the property of conscionable 17 and became 1 of the astir celebrated women successful the world.

But she was forced to discontinue the athletics owed to wounded conscionable 4 years aboriginal after winning 16 vocation titles successful the doubles game.

Since past she has disappeared from view, keeping her life precise private, on with her semipermanent fellow and begetter of her 2 children, vocalist Enrique Iglesias.

So 43-year-old Anna shocked fans past week erstwhile she was spotted successful in a wheelchair astatine a buying centre with her limb successful an orthopaedic boot. 

Anna had spoken candidly successful the past astir the wellness struggles which ended her tennis vocation prematurely and her conflict to set to beingness aft sport.

“It was precise absorbing to maine to halt playing and to fig out, 'Who americium I without tennis?' It was precise hard and scary arsenic hell," she said.

“I did everything from therapy to 10-hour walks connected the formation to discover, and think, and effort caller things.”

But Anna isn’t the lone planetary superstar to measurement distant from celebrity life aft years of being nether the spotlight. 

Sophie Anderton 

The erstwhile nationalist schoolgirl changeable to fame successful 1996 aged conscionable 19 arsenic the look - and assemblage - of Gossard's Wonderbra. 

In the noughties she was a regular fixture successful lads' mags, appearing connected the screen of FHM, Loaded and Nuts. 

She went connected to look successful I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here and was a housemate connected the 12th bid of Celebrity Big Brother successful 2013.

But she has since stepped distant from the limelight and has go a fittingness guru.

The 47-year-old Bristolian is joined to aristocratic jazz instrumentalist Count Kaz Balinski-Jundzill, who was antecedently joined to cook Lorraine Pascale. 

They unrecorded unneurotic astatine his 1,500-acre Glendalough House successful Wicklow, Ireland.

Last twelvemonth Sophie said her emotion of wellness and workout helped her header aft suffering a miscarriage and accepting that she would not beryllium capable to person a kid of her own.

Instead she chose to clasp the household the mates already person - Kaz’s 4 children from erstwhile relationships and Sophie’s 13 godchildren.

She said: "It's been the hardest determination I’ve ever had to make, to judge that we won't person a kid of our own," the erstwhile supermodel says.

"I've experienced a rollercoaster of emotions implicit it, but Kaz has been astonishing and beyond supportive arsenic helium reconciled himself to it too.

"Once we accepted the information that having a babe wouldn't happen, it was liberating, arsenic if the last portion of a puzzle had slotted into place.”

Adele Silva

As Emmerdale’s tearaway Kelly Windsor, Adele was portion of immoderate of the astir arguable storylines the soap had ever seen - including having an matter with her step-brother.

The relation propelled her to super-stardom making her a favourite pin-up successful lads mags FHM, Loaded and Maxim.

She discontinue the soap successful 2007 and headed to LA successful 2009 to effort to ace Hollywood - but, similar galore actors, ended up having to instrumentality a time occupation successful a store to marque ends meet.

But it was her conflict to person a babe that made Adele, present 44, re-evaluate her beingness and discontinue fame.

After she and her partner, businessman Oliver Farber, yet welcomed babe miss Sienna into the satellite successful 2015, Adele revealed she had suffered 3 devastating miscarriages successful arsenic galore years.

After winning a relation successful Hollyoaks the aforesaid twelvemonth she gave birth, she aboriginal decided to discontinue showbiz and absorption connected being a mum.

She present uses her acting skills arsenic an acting manager astatine the National Film and Television School and besides works casting up-and-coming stars for caller roles.

Kristin Kreuk 

The Canadian histrion changeable to fame aged conscionable 18 arsenic the prima of teen play Edgemont.

With her acting endowment and stunning looks much movie and TV roles followed, including the pb relation of Snow White successful the TV movie Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.

But aged conscionable 23, she unwittingly got progressive successful a enactment cult erstwhile she joined NXIVM, reasoning it was a self-help radical to conquer her shyness.

It was lone erstwhile the cult was raided successful 2018, amid accusations that women were coerced into having enactment with its person and branded with his initials, that Kristin spoke astir her engagement and denied immoderate wrong-doing.

In a connection connected Twitter, the Smallville prima added: “The accusations that I was successful the 'inner circle' oregon recruited women arsenic 'sex slaves' are blatantly false.”

Now aged 41, she lives successful Canada. Nothing is known astir her idiosyncratic life.

Jolene Blalock

Jolene made her sanction as Star Trek's sexiest Vulcan, T'Pol, successful the Enterprise series, from 2001 to 2005.

Born successful San Diego she launched her palmy modelling vocation astatine the property of conscionable 17, posing successful lads mags and doing a clothed manner sprout for Playboy. Jolene was named the 10th sexiest pistillate successful the satellite by FHM successful 2003.

She joined Live Nation brag Michael Rapino successful 2003 and continued to enactment until she gave commencement to the couple’s archetypal lad successful 2010. They person since had 2 much boys.

Focusing connected household beingness and foundation work, she disappeared from the spotlight - but the 48-year-old is inactive unbelievably glamorous.

Last twelvemonth she concisely returned to acting to voice an alternate beingness mentation of her Star Trek: Enterprise character successful the Star Trek: Lower Decks 5th play occurrence "Fissure Quest”. Keeping her aerial of mystery, she was credited conscionable arsenic Jolene.

Show creator Mike McMahon said: “She didn't archer maine why, but she was like, ‘I would similar conscionable to beryllium Jolene successful this,’ and we were blessed to bash it.”

Jakki Degg 

Jakki was named The Sun's 'Best Ever Page 3 Girl' successful 2003 and graced the covers of hundreds of lads mags successful the noughties.

It was her mum who was down her emergence to fame, encouraging Jakki to participate the inaugural Max Power mag babes contention - which she won.

FHM named her arsenic 1 of the UK’s 100 sexiest girls of 2002. But she besides had brains arsenic good arsenic beauty, graduating from assemblage with a science degree.

After a decennary modelling she discontinue the manufacture and, present 41, she is an physics DJ, and has swapped her signature blonde bob for brunette locks.

Michelle Marsh 

Care adjunct Michelle became a exemplary astatine 18 and went connected to became a regular successful men's mags including Playboy, Loaded, Maxim and Nuts.

She was famed for her 32FF earthy assets successful the aboriginal noughties, which led to her being billed arsenic the ‘new Samantha Fox’.

She past focused connected launching a popular vocation with her azygous ‘I Don’t Do’ peaking astatine fig 89 successful the UK charts successful 2006.

Michelle, present 41, besides appeared connected TV shows including the X Factor: Battle of the Stars, The Weakest Link and Celebrity Big Brother.

She joined erstwhile Scottish footballer Will Haining successful 2007 and they went connected to person 3 children.

She discontinue her modelling vocation to absorption connected her household and opened a children's boutique store, TillyFlops, successful her autochthonal Oldham successful 2012.