Geri HalliwellGeri Halliwell wants to hide away from the public eye while she gets her figure back after the birth of her daughter Bluebell Madonna.

Geri gave birth a fortnight ago and has been staying in a rented house in London since then. But now she’s asking her famous friends if they can offer her a quieter retreat - because she can’t afford her own home.

According to a source in the Sun, “Geri has been pleading poverty with her friends. She doesn’t own a house in the UK any more but she desperately wanted her baby to be born in London. She’s been living in various rented properties in Los Angeles and London for the past couple of years and doesn’t have a proper place to call home.”

She has apparently been in contact with friend George Michael and former fellow Spice Girls Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton to see if they can help her out: “She’s asked George, Victoria and Emma if she can use their big houses in the country for a while.”

“She has told them she doesn’t have as much money as people assume, and that she needs a place in the sticks where she can have some privacy.”