'It's weird': Aussie boxer making thousands from 'dirty' side-hustle
Australian boxing star Ebanie Bridges has opened up on a 'dirty' side hustle that has fans around the world sending her thousands of dollars.
Appearing on Channel 7's reality TV show SAS Australia, Bridges lifted the lid on her unusual money-maker on Wednesday night's episode.
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The 35-year-old revealed she can get up to $1000 for her dirty socks from people with foot fetishes.
“My socks are like $1000,” she told the other contestants.
“I sell them to people in the UK all the time - $1000, £500.
“So the first time I did it, right, I had an inbox and I was in my phone, and I was like, ‘Look at this guy. Another one.
“So I wrote back, ‘£500’, and he goes, ‘Give me your PayPal.’ I sent him my PayPal and he puts the money straight in my PayPal.
“It was so easy, and then I put a tweet out. All these foot fetish people f***ing inbox me, ‘How do I get a pair of your socks?’, I want a picture of your feet’. And I was like, F*** yeah! £500!”
Bridges, who is known for wearing lingerie to her pre-fight weigh-ins, said there are some specifications that fans demand - but she is all too happy to comply.
"It’s just a picture of my socks on the floor, like dirty laundry,” she said.
“But the soles have to be up, because they want to see they're dirty. It’s f***ing weird.
“As if I’m going to say no to $1000 for a pair of my dirty socks.
“Please, give me your money and take the socks. Like, hashtag easy money.”
Ebanie Bridges making huge money from dirty socks
The boxer known as the 'Blonde Bomber' joked that her used socks from SAS Australia would be worth even more.
“My dirty socks from this course are going to be worth a mint at the end,” she laughed.
“My fight socks are worth heaps, and I only wear them for one fight.
“This is like sweat and probably blood, you know, like, I can’t wait to see how much I get for these socks.”
Bridges first opened up about the unusual side-hustle in 2020, saying it was the perfect money-maker when her boxing fights were suspended due to the pandemic.
“It’s so weird though because I feel like I’m selling nudes when I think about sharing a pic of my feet without a sock on it. It’s so weird," she said.
“It’s got nothing to do with my feet. It’s just to do with these people and their fetishes.
"I don’t think they even really care [about my feet}.”
Bridges lost her WBA world bantamweight title bout against British boxer Shannon Courtenay last year in the UK for her first professional loss.
She is now 7-1 in her professional career and has held the Australasian female super-bantamweight title since 2020.
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