University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has appeared in public for the first time since being put under house arrest due to allegations of abuse and concealing the birth of an infant, looking very different from her polished online image.

The 21-year-old was seen without makeup and dressed in pajamas as she moved between her divorced parents’ homes in Jefferson County, Tennessee, on Sunday.

Exclusive photos from the Daily Mail reveal the former athlete enduring her house arrest while a grand jury considers if she will be charged further in connection with her newborn son’s death. 

Snelling was arrested on August 30 after police found the body of a baby boy wrapped in a trash bag and towel in her bedroom closet at her college home in Lexington, Kentucky.

Authorities believe she gave birth to the child in the early morning hours of August 27, and the infant was alive at the time of delivery.

The all-American cheerleader has been criticized for her over-glamorous look at her two court appearances, where she waived her right to a preliminary trial last week.

But new pictures show her under house arrest in Tennessee, with her bleach blonde hair pulled into a loose braid.

Her mother Michelle, 49, arrived home clutching a McDonald’s bag for Snelling. who arrived around 15 minutes later with her father Terry.

The fast-food chain appears to be among Snelling’s favorites, as she made a dash to one in Lexington after giving birth  and allegedly stuffing the newborn’s body in her dorm room closet.

Snelling was initially booked into jail, but released on a $100,000 surety bond, before a judge ruled that she had to remain under house arrest at her parents’ homes ahead of her trial. 

The former pageant queen is reliant on her parents for everything and has been lying low at both properties – barely venturing outside at all.

Details of her house arrest have been scant, with a judge ruling that she did not need to be put under electronic monitoring while awaiting her fate.

Snelling clutched an iPad as she got out of her father’s white pick-up truck, after driving around 30 minutes to her mother’s home in Morristown.

She had been staying at her construction boss father’s $300,000 home in Jefferson City, with his new wife Paula.

Terry, 49, drove his youngest child to his former marital home – which Michelle previously used as a daycare center – carrying some of her belongings inside.

He and his ex-wife then stepped outside onto the porch of the $200,000 home, had a tense conversation before he left the property moments later.

Both parents and a handful of former classmates have been supporting Snelling throughout her court appearances.

Snelling has been charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant.

However she could also face a murder charge depending on the outcome of an autopsy report for her baby.

Fayette County Coroner said in a statement that additional testing is needed to determine the cause of the infant’s death after the results from the initial autopsy proved to be inconclusive.

Prosecutors claim in newly filed court documents that the boy was delivered at around 4am, when her roommates said they heard loud noises coming from her bedroom.

Speaking to cops days later, Snelling said she was awake for about half an hour following childbirth before she passed out and fell asleep on top of the infant, according to an affidavit.

When she awoke, Snelling allegedly said she saw the baby was ‘turning blue and purple,’ leading her to believe the child was dead.

At that point, she wrapped the youngster up ‘like a burrito and laid it on the floor next to her because it gave her a little comfort in the moment.’

She then apparently fell asleep again, and woke up to her alarm at 7.30am – at which point she allegedly placed the baby in a towel and the placenta in a black trash bag, which she placed in her closet.

When she then saw her roommates, Snelling told them the loud noises they heard were simply her passing out and falling.

She then said she was going to a doctor because ‘she had not eaten and had not been feeling well,’ according to the affidavit.

Snelling did go to a student clinic in the aftermath, but did not go inside, the document claimed.

Instead, it says, she left her apartment, skipped her 9.30am class, sat in her car, ordered food on the McDonald’s app and picked it up.

While she was gone, her roommates – who were said to have been suspicious of the pregnancy Snelling was hiding and the noises overnight – went into her room and found a ‘blood-soaked towel on the floor and a plastic bag containing evidence of childbirth,’ prosecutors allege.

The baby was ‘cold to the touch’ when an unidentified person called 911 later that morning, and when Snelling returned to her college home, she was detained by police.

As officers continued to investigate in the days that followed, they executed a search warrant on Snelling’s phone and requested access to her Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and a shared iCloud account with her mother.

The probe revealed that Snelling had made a number of Internet searches ‘including different things pertaining to pregnancy, images of her during labor, photos of her doing things ordinary pregnant woman should not be doing and a concealed or hidden pregnancy,’ the affidavit says.

‘Other items could have also been deleted in an attempt to hide any evidence of the pregnancy, birth and newborn baby,’ Lexington police note, including information related to ‘the birth of the full-term baby.’

Meanwhile, Snelling is said to have told staff at the University of Kentucky Labor and Delivery Unit that her baby had shown ‘a little bit of fetal movement’ and made a ‘whimper,’ and that she ‘guessed’ he was alive at birth.

When authorities finally found the infant’s body inside her closet, they also noted he ‘appeared to be full-term.’

It is unclear whether Snelling, who has since dropped out of school, had told anyone she was pregnant.

However, unearthed footage from April shows Snelling performing with UK’s STUNT team with what appears to be a pregnancy bump.

Snelling also posted images in June where her then-boyfriend, former college basketball star Connor Jordan, 24, where she seemed to cover her front.

Her sighting comes after Daily Mail revealed her relationship with the former varsity basketball star – with an ex-boyfriend undergoing a DNA test to see if the baby was his.

Hunky college quarterback Izaiah Hall dated Snelling for some time before she moved on to Jordan.

Daily Mail has already exclusively revealed the relationship between University of Kentucky senior Snelling and 24-year-old Jordan – and the fact they posed for a loved-up photo shoot months before her arrest on August 30.

The pair looked every bit the all-American couple in the professional picture set, with the cheerleader exhibiting what appears to be a bump under her long white flowing dress.

Snelling’s immaculate all-American facade has also been fractured with accusations that she was an ‘appearance-obsessed serial bully’ in high school.

She is even accused of once trying to run down a fellow student with a Jeep and being so mean that others transferred to different schools to get away from her.