'Not expecting it': Olympic athlete reveals $3.6 million escort offer

Russian long-jumper Darya Klishina has opened up about the $300,000-a-month offer she received from a fan to become an escort.

The Olympic star and world championship silver-medallist told the Sun of her shock to receive the offer, which she politely declined.

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“I was offered to be an escort. The message came from an unknown person from the US, in a direct message,” she revealed recently.

"It was several months ago ... I was not expecting something like this.

“He just wrote a direct message to me on Instagram.

"I’m not somebody who swears at people and just answered him back with, ‘Sorry but I am not interested in this offer’.”

However the 29-year-old says the fan wouldn’t accept no for an answer.

“He then got back to me saying, 'Wait, don't you refuse straight away. You don't even know the conditions and the amount I’m offering’.

“The sum was big, very big. It was £160,000 per month (about AU$300,000).

“I then thought, ‘Do I really look like a woman who would agree to something like this?’”

Klishina opens up in revealing interview

The absurd offer would work out to be $3.6 million across a whole year.

In a revealing interview, Klishina also opened up about being pressured during a photo shoot when she was younger.

“I'm happy with my body, I have nothing to be ashamed of, but that photo session was a little bit too much for me,” she said.

The Russian said she “felt uncomfortable” and could tell that “something was going wrong” when she was asked to take more clothes off than she wanted.

Klishina gained worldwide attention at the 2016 Olympics in Rio when she competed as a neutral athlete due to Russia’s ban.

Klishina was initially barred from competing at all before winning an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, becoming the sole Russian to compete in the athletics event.

She then won a silver medal at the 2017 world championships in London.