CHLOE: I knew there was a different life out
there, I didn't know how to get it, but I just knew that I wanted it.
COMM: From fast cars to photo shoots, British
model Chloe Khan lives a glamorous LA lifestyle. But just five years ago, Chloe's dreams were
in tatters and her life in the North of England was a far cry from California's sunny beaches.
At 19 she was kicked off the British version of TV singing competition the X Factor
and hit headlines for all the wrong reasons. But she decided to reinvent herself and embarked
on a rags to riches story that would take her half way around the world.
CHLOE: My lifestyle now is really, really
nice. It's, you know, mansions and private jets all that kind of thing, things that I would
have dreamed of that seemed unrealistic.
COMM: In 2010 then known as Chloe Mafia, she
had a brush with fame on the X Factor, but lost it all when she was dropped from the
show. Rather than hiding away from the limelight, Chloe made the controversial decision
to become a webcam model performing for paying customers online. Earning 6 figure sums she
went on to set up her own web cam modelling company and rebranded herself as Chloe Khan.
CHLOE: When I want something 100% I really
go for it so I really focused a lot of time energy and commitment into the webcam company.
COMM: Her income allowed her to leave the
backstreets of Wakefield for the bright lights of LA and she hasn't looked back.
CHLOE: A lot of people are surprised by my
transformation, it wasn't just overnight. I didn't just wake up from a chavvy clown
to LA princess, it has been like a long journey.
COMM: Now Chloe's life has been transformed
where fast cars, private jets and expensive shopping trips are the norm, and it wasn't
just her lifestyle that was transformed.
CHLOE: I have had a some cosmetic surgery,
I've had a slight rhinoplasty, just to kind of neaten my nose up, obviously I have had a
boob job or two and I've had like fillers in my lips which I just go for like once a year.
COMM: Chloe met her 58-year-old boyfriend
John Grey at the Playboy Mansion in 2014 and he made her the face of his famous chain of
strip clubs, Spearmint Rhino.
JOHN: She was just stunning and it literally
is like this crowd parted and there she and her couple of girlfriends were and she was
just outstanding to me.
JOHN: I and her grew up different than the silver
spoon in our mouths. We took a bad upbringing and twisted it into success. I'm amazed
at what she's done, she'll go some place in this world, she'll make a mark.
COMM: But Chloe hasn't forgotten her roots
and splits her time between a 6-bedroom house in Leeds and John's mansion in Newport Beach,
California. Today she's back in Wakefield visiting the less glamorous area where she grew up.
CHLOE: This is one of the council houses
I lived in when I was growing up. And I kind of hated it round here, people threw eggs
at the window. I can actually see an egg on someone's window over there now. It is not like
a good place to live or kind of grow up. Some people are happy I'm sure and that's fine for them,
but for me it really wasn't where I wanted to be.
CHLOE: Oh my god look how big you've got! I didn't even recognise you!
MAN: You know what.
CHLOE: I was just basically one of those little
chavs that you just don't want to walk past a few years ago.
COMM: And her return home brings back memories
of her X Factor experience and the newspaper headlines that followed her at the time.
CHLOE: I'd had the worst types of publicity
ever there was so many newspapers about me at the time with all different stories, escort,
drugs, all these different kind of things and everyone around me just wanted to make
some quick cash out of it. People that barely knew me were telling stories on me, I
was never an escort no I did do dancing and stuff like that.
COMM: Looking back even Chloe can't believe
how far she's come.
CHLOE: If people saw me from like my teenage
years and when I was growing up and everything, everyone would just think that I'm probably
going nowhere. I feel like I have had two lifetimes just split day and night.
COMM: And for the mother of one, her journey
has only just begun.
CHLOE: The past 5 years has been a really
big learning curve for me, I just feel like the world is in my hand, I feel like anything
I want to do I feel like I can do it.