How the ex-girlfriend of NRL star Josh Reynolds transformed

With innate self-belief, the ex-girlfriend of NRL star Josh Reynolds’ quit Traralgon in Melbourne, aged 18, to reinvent herself as a bombshell magazine glamour model that was to later catch the eye of Wests Tigers playmaker, Josh Reynolds.

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Perched proudly on the end of the second row of her AFL training school, Donna Preusker beams broadly for the camera.

The 17-year-old, who would go on to become Arabella Del Busso and the ex girlfriend of NRL star Josh Reynolds, has played a confidence game for years standing out among her con­temporaries, even as an awkward teen AFL intern at Kurnai Precinct Campus in 2007, where was completing a Certificate 3 in Sport and Recreation.

Donna Preusker, later known as Arabella Del Busso, aged 17, as an AFL intern at Kurnai Precinct Campus.

“Traralgon was never big enough for her,” said a former Traralgon College friend who asked to be known only as Michael. “She wanted to be a sports masseuse and was fun and bubbly and game.

“She said her grandmother died when we were at school, that she had been left lots of money and was house hunting for a penthouse … we later found out her grandmother Dawn is still alive.

“She wanted to give the reputation she was loaded when she lived in a beaten weatherboard house down the road with her mum, stepfather and sister.”

NRL player Josh Reynolds and his former girlfriend Arabella del Busso. Picture: Facebook

She quit east Melbourne a year later to move in with a Traralgon boy who had transferred with work to Perth, before she reinvented herself as a glam mag model who would later catch the eye of Wests Tigers playmaker, Reynolds.

Adopting the fake name Del Busso, among seven ­others, she posed for Maxim Cover Girl online last year, telling the publication: “I’m very outgoing and friendly person.”

The girl with braces: Donna Preuska in 2007, when she landed an AFL Sports Ready Traineeship at Kurnai Precinct Campus.

Preusker has a history of deception and false aliases and has accused former boyfriend Reynolds of assault.

He maintains he was the subject of a calculated plot by his ex who faked multiple pregnancies and even lied about suffering from cancer — claims she vehemently ­rejects. Reynolds’ defence also claims she digitally man­ipulated images to give the ­illusion she was pregnant.

Ms Preusker has been contacted for comment.

Arabella Del Busso.