A Brazilian model went to the police after she was reported missing by her family to say she was 'happy' with her life in Rio de Janeiro just months before she was found 'disorientated' and shoeless in one of the city's slum, reports have claimed.Eloisa Pinto Fontes, 26, once graced the covers of Elle, Grazia and Glamor but was reported missing by relatives in May.She was thought to be living with a boyfriend in Barra da Tijuca in the West Zone of Rio, according to her family, but was found in the Morro do Cantagalo favela in Rio in the south-east of the country on October 6.A local neighbourhood watch team were tipped off about an unknown woman who had been wandering the favela - shirtless and shoe-less - for two days. Months ago, on July 30, Fontes is believed to have visited police at the 16th Barra da Tijuca (DP) to say she was 'not in any danger', according to Brazilian website Epoca. She claimed to want to keep her distance from relatives who 'only want my money and not my wellbeing', adding that she was happy and in a relationship.Her former husband Andre Birleanul, 38, has since told Brazilian news website Odia that Fontes was in a relationship with a civil police officer who encouraged her to take drugs.Fontes denied taking drugs to police and said she did not have any psychiatric problems. A close friend claimed Fontes's relationship with the policeman ended last month. The Russian model said his former wife's maternal instinct was a 'disaster' and she would 'never go near my daughter again'. He accused her of 'abandoning' their child in Europe six years ago, adding that he had to fly to London to pick up their daughter. 'She was extremely explosive and rebellious. Neither her family nor me, nor can anyone speak to her,' he added.The model lived in New York City with Mr Birleanul until their two-year marriage ended in 2016. She allegedly went missing early last year, but was found five days later, also disoriented, on a street in White Plains.Fontes claimed her family 'invented untrue facts about her' and 'put something in her food and drink', causing her to be admitted to a mental hospital while she was still living in New York.On Tuesday she was referred to the Philippe Pinel Minicipal Institute where she underwent a psychiatric evaluation and was hospitalised for mental health care. Share this article Share She is thought to have moved back to Brazil in January of this year where she settled in Rio without informing her family, with Oglobo reporting that she had been looking for work.However, it thought that her family - who live in a different part of Brazil - were not aware of the move. CNN reports they have been searching for her since last year