Model Annalise Braakensiek, 46, is found dead in her inner-city Sydney apartment after police were alerted by her close friends and family - following a series of cryptic Instagram posts

Model Annalise Braakensiek, 46, is found dead in her inner-city Sydney apartment after police were alerted by her close friends and family - following a series of cryptic Instagram posts

• Australian model Annalise Braakensiek has been found dead at the age of 46
• Police were called to her apartment in Potts Point, Sydney, on Sunday afternoon
• She bought the property after splitting with her stockbroker husband of 16 years

High-profile Australian model Annalise Braakensiek has been found dead in her Sydney apartment at the age of 46. 

Police officers were called to her home in the inner-city suburb of Potts Point about 3.30pm on Sunday. 

Close friends and family became concerned for the model's wellbeing after she stopped replying to their text messages on Thursday, news.com.au reported.

Her tragic death follows a series of cryptic Instagram posts which detailed how her life had become 'dark, difficult, demanding and down right scary lately.'

In one of the last posts to her 40,000 followers on December 15, she wrote: 'Everything seems to feel twisted and upside down at the moment'. 

'Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of you who have helped me though my dark clouds,' she wrote in another Instagram post about her mental health struggles.

Friends began to worry about the 46-year-old's wellbeing when Braakensiek failed to respond to text messages or phone calls since Thursday

A dear friend will kindly fly me over for some R&R to spend time with my American tribe I haven't seen in way too many years,' she told Daily Mail Australia at the time.

The TV personality, who described her 16 years with Danny as 'amazing', did not reveal what prompted the breakup.  

Braakensiek previously revealed she'd battled with depression for years and was an ambassador for RUOK? Day in 2017.