Lara Bingle left Australia in May after her engagement to Michael Clarke was called off, but she has returned home yesterday and was welcomed by her mother Sharon and two photographers.

Although she didn't say if she found any work during her stay in the US, she said that she went to the World Cup in South Africa on her way home after staying in LA for a few days and in New York for a few weeks.

"I'm really jet-lagged and it's so freezing here," she said as she walked to her mother's car.

Good for her she was wearing a head-to-toe figure-hugging black leather that helped keep her warm despite the Sydney chill.

Sources say that Bingle did not have a working visa at the time she went to US so her trip was actually a holiday.

The former Sydney it-girl is said to be living again with her mother.