United Kingdom, March 1 -- Kelly Brook says fame has "ruined" her life on a "couple of occasions".

The 45-year-old former glamour model was able to build a TV career after appearing on the cover of lads mags and the Daily Star's Page Three in the noughties, but she has admitted the attention came with a cost.

She told Woman magazine: "'Vogue wasn't putting me on a cover back then. Cosmo wasn't putting me on a cover. All those men's mags helped pave my way into TV. I saw it as a means to get where I wanted to go in life."

The Heart FM DJ added: "When you're in people's living rooms every day, you become public property, she reflects. Today, the star insists, I just don't want that attention.

It frightens me, to be honest. It has ruined...