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Woman Earns £100,000 a Year By Selling Her Smelly Socks
By Kate Buck
A woman has revealed the secret to earning almost £100,00 a year – by selling her smelly socks to foot fetishists.
Roxy Sykes, 33, realised she could break into the foot fetish industry after someone comple- mented her on the ‘beauty’ of her feet.
The property- investor decided to set up an Instagram page to see how true the interest in her feet was and after reaching over 10,000 followers in a month, decided to listen to her ‘fans’.
Roxy, from London, then started selling shoes and socks on her social media accounts for £20 per pair of socks and £200 for shoes.
Having been in the business for four years now, Roxy claims she can earn up to £8,000 in a busy month.
Roxy said: ‘After being told by a col- league that I had beautiful feet, I was convinced to set up a social media
account to show them off.
‘But it wasn’t until I started getting thou- sands of followers and messages about selling used items that I realized I could profit from it.
‘I didn’t show my face or anything at first, so I knew peo- ple were just inter- ested in me for my feet, so it didn’t feel too personal.
‘But when I started selling I got a real buzz from it and realized just how much I could make from selling shoes and socks from time to time.
‘I realized how much money I could truly make on my busiest
month, where I saw over £8000 come in just for videos, socks and shoes.
‘Now I can never see myself stopping this – however old I get my feet will always be able to make me money.’
After initially starting up her side project as just a social media account, Roxy knew she had to progress further if she wanted to keep up with the competi- tion.
She said: ‘Posting photos and videos of my feet was all well and good, but people always want- ed more and wanted to physically own something to do with my feet.
‘I would be in busi- ness meetings, tak- ing photos of my feet under the table, and getting an influx of messages by the hour asking if they could buy anything.
‘So I moved my business onto differ- ent websites, as well as just social media, and sudden- ly started making £2000 a week from just one website alone.
‘Pairs of shoes that I would wear for two months would sell for £200, and a pair of socks that I wore for a day would sell for £20.
‘Then a single video of even me just wig- gling my toes would
make £100, so I was really raking in a lot of money.’
Despite the industry sometimes being frowned upon and retaining a lot of stigma, Roxy claims that she loves the buzz she gets from the fetish industry.
She said: ‘I really like what I do, and I think that’s because I really got desensi- tized from it and saw it as work.
‘I have never had any trouble getting into relationships because of what I do, and my friends and family are on board with what I do.
‘It’s great to be able to get home from a
normal working day to know I can make a bit of extra money from a photo of my feet.
‘I know it’s some- thing I will never stop doing – the money is so good and it’s so easy, there’s no reason I would!”
Alongside setting up her own business, Roxy has helped to mentor fellow fetish models.
She said: ‘I have started to train dif- ferent models in how to get into the fetish industry and make money like I am.
‘It’s great to be able to help others and teach people my apparent ‘talent’ so that they can follow what I do.
‘It’s also amazing to see people’s confi- dence grow when they make these videos and start to earn money from something like a pair of socks.
‘Working as a team together also helps to beat the stigma and make the indus- try less frowned upon.’
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