Three sisters have used their selfies to rake in more than £75,000 worth of free goods – after men started swamping them with gifts.
Lucy Brooks and her sisters Sophie and Stacie have already been gifted with designer shoes, handbags, laptops, iPads and luxury cosmetics from these strangers – who the women insist they’ve never met before.
According to The Mirror, the girls feel like they’re doing nothing wrong, with the men realising that they’ll receive nothing in return for their presents.
Lucy told the site:
“It’s not seedy. It’s hardly like we’re selling our bodies. We’re doing many of these men a favour. They love our pictures and tell us how fun we look. We brighten up their day, in an innocent way.
“We’d never meet or do anything sexual. We’re not like that. My boyfriend doesn’t have a problem with it. He thinks it’s funny, if anything. Although he’s stuck on what to get for Christmas as I already have so much.”
? @StaceyMarie89x by @ddphotograph & MUA @Nataliewood_4 ? #sisters #brookssisters pic.twitter.com/a5Xg2IvTr5
— Lucy-Anne Brooks (@Lucy_Anne) April 16, 2015
The women also own their own hair and beauty salon in St.Albans, where they are delivered fresh flowers every week. While the girls have received some negative feedback, they insist that the men are mostly harmless and ‘have things missing in their lives’: “Maybe they’re lonely or lack confidence. They don’t have a glamorous girl to treat at home, so they get a kick out of buying for us. It’s sweet.” Sister Lucy said the trend started when someone sent her Marc Jacobs perfume, and it was soon followed by requests for the girls to set up wishlists on Amazon. While the men are mostly respectful of the girls’ privacy, they have had one man who stalked the trio.
We had to stand on carpet to get a group shot cause she’s a bloody giant ? @StaceyMarie89x @Sb88x pic.twitter.com/fbIVv1Q6cG — Lucy-Anne Brooks (@Lucy_Anne) April 8, 2015
Sophie explained:
“It was really quite scary. We all blocked him on Twitter, but he made other accounts to contact us on. “Then he rang Lucy to say he was in St Albans and was coming to the salon. We had to get the police involved and he got a restraining order.”
The girls said that although they receive gifts, they feel like they’re giving back to their admirers too:
“I never give the impression we’ll do anything but talk. I spoke to one man after his wife had died.
“He said I helped him through a tough time. He insisted on buying Vivienne Westwood bags and shoes. It made him feel good.”
While we all love to be spoiled, we somehow doubt most of our selfies would garner an iPad, designer heels, or more than 20 likes from friends and family.
Lead Image: Lucy Anne Brooks/Twitter
