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A SACKED Woolworths shop girl has had to swap the pick 'n' mix counter for turning tricks as a VICE GIRL in the struggle to make ends meet.
As the credit crunch grips Britain and more employers go to the wall cash-strapped Zara insists she had no other choice but going on the game.
The pretty 22-year-old said last night: "I'm in so much debt. There are no jobs around and it is the only way I could see of coping. But I never thought I'd end up doing this . . . "
Zara sells her services over the internet on an escort website. Advertising herself as "Ex-Woolies Girl" she began by offering intimate massage and oral sex for £100 an hour.
"From that point it's not that much of a bigger step to offer more," she confessed. "And now I do full sex for an extra £50. Admittedly it's not my dream job. But I just think about how much money I owed, and it's quick money. Quick, but not easy."
Shocked
Naively, Zara is shocked at the bizarre sexual requests men bombard her with in their emails.
"Some people have really weird fetishes," she said. "They want allsorts."
Until a month ago Zara was just about coping financially, getting by on the minimum wage of £5.73 she earned shelf-stacking and manning the till at her local Woolies in a Sussex town.
"It wasn't glamorous," she said. "Days were long and you were often on your feet the whole time. But it was a job and I was earning a living."
Then just before Christmas Zara was crushed to learn she was being made redundant as the company crashed throwing 27,000 out of work.
"There were a lot of tears when it was announced." she said. "Some people had been working there for years. As the doors closed for the last time it was a sad moment. I just thought, 'Well what now?'
"I was so scared. I'd been there eight months and was barely getting by as it was. Then I looked around the town where I live and saw shop after shop closing. It's dying.
"But the problem is I owe around £2,000. It's from credit cards, general household and telephone bills.
Sex
"I know it might not sound like that much to a lot of people, but when you haven't got it, or any way of getting it, it may as well be a million-and you start thinking about doing things you'd never normally consider."
In desperation Zara started looking at escort websites. In her innocence she was originally heartened by agency promises that she wouldn't have to have sex. But the grim reality of her new trade soon kicked in.
The first time Zara went to meet a client she spent the two-hour journey in a petrified state constantly thinking about what lay ahead.
And the only way she could go through with it was by being drunk.
"I had to have a few drinks," she said. "Even then I was still really scared and nervous."
Afterwards, on the way home to her unsuspecting and jobless boyfriend, tears flowed. "I felt awful," she confessed. "But I just had to keep thinking of the money and clearing the bills."
Zara's unexpected new profession in recession-hit Britain is a far cry from the job she really yearns for.
"All I've ever wanted to do is become a counsellor and help people," she said. "I wanted to do an access course that could lead to university last year, but I just couldn't afford it.
"There's another course starting September that I'd love to do, but God knows if I'll be able to pay for it."
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This article has 35 comments
omg!! thats sad. dont sell sex.rofl doe itz funny how could some1 b so dumb
By jodian.. Posted February 1 2009 at 12:46 PM.
Am a ex woolworths girl in swinton manchester.
i have a morage to pay. I would never dream of selling myself. You pick yourself up get a job and get on with it
By ex woolworths girl.. Posted January 31 2009 at 9:18 AM.
Too many people judge others when they don't really have a clue of what our society is today. It is ok for the arm chair critics to say what this girl is doing is wrong when most have never really seen true hardship.So stop judging and ask how many women have laid underneath their partners for something they have wanted? How many men have used giving their partners something for return of sex? If answered honest not many can say that they haven't! As for the comment on religion GOD don't pay the bills!!!!!!!!
By nicola.. Posted January 31 2009 at 3:31 AM.
this is not the better way to get money honestly think about it my young dear
By Robert.. Posted January 30 2009 at 8:29 PM.
YOU SHOULD HAVE RELIGION. IF YOU HAD FAITH AND BELIEVED IN GOD YOU WOULD NEVER DREAM OF RESORTING TO SELLING YOUR BODY. THAT'S DISGUSTING. PROMISCUITY, ALCOHOL, RELIGION FORBIDS THESE THINGS FOR GOOD REASON.
By YASMIN.. Posted January 30 2009 at 2:11 PM.
Ah those were the days!
I walked in to Woolies one September Saturday and went around the store. I spotted a pocket Venus; asked her out;she said yes; I proposed on the Thursday; saved up to buy the Engagement Ring (£17:00); got married; and that was 57 years ago this February 16th.
(PS: We still have a little credit card debt!)
Try it, you'll like it!
By Bill.. Posted January 28 2009 at 2:17 PM.
people should leave her alone...at the end of the day when you lost your job and got bills to pay you have not got time to look for a job or waiting for benifits....if anyone is to blame it's her boyfriend sitting on his arse....i feel for zara no woman should have to do that and then cry about it...thats how you know this girl is genuine. im lucky i lost my woolworths job but i still got my parents. no one should judge this poor girl the goverment should be the ones getting judged not this poor girl. more bothered about money in their pocket not saving peoples jobs or houses!
By exwoolies.. Posted January 28 2009 at 12:12 AM.
i am also an ex-woolies worker, with university to pay for, driving lessons to pay for, debts and a 8 month old baby. i know things are hard and it may seem like there is no way out, but this is just very low. things will always be difficult but there are ways around it, you just have to look harder, dont do this to yourself, because the health risks involoved (coupled with the mental damage it can do) are things that will hit you even harder than a bit of debt.
By ex woollies worker.. Posted January 27 2009 at 10:17 PM.
Zara //What you've resorted to is the lowest even though you have debts. there are jobs out there still if you really look for them//have you not thought of STD and worse still aids//so stop it right now before you have big regrets // Pa
By arthurleaves@hotmail.co.uk.. Posted January 27 2009 at 4:15 PM.
You can get funding for an access course if you do it through open university you dont have to pay for the course. Think thats an easier way of doing things
By Anna.. Posted January 27 2009 at 1:57 PM.
The government should get off their fat tax fed arses and help people out. There is no advice for people who find themselves forced into unemployment and deperate times mean desperate measures.
This poor girl should be helped along with all the others that are fearful of what the future holds. The ex woolies board should be taken to court for letting things get so desperate, they should be the ones that are ashamed.
By xwooliesworker.. Posted January 26 2009 at 8:41 AM.
leave the girl alone she's not hurting anyone. there are loads of people who do it and a lot more who will as long as your being carefull an telling a close one who an where u are your clients must be top totty the recession obvisly havent hit them yet at 100 a pop
By mander.. Posted January 26 2009 at 7:04 AM.
What this editorial says is clear: It's great being a whore, look at the money I can bring in it OK'...What about drugs, Big part of sex in this sleaze is coke. Pimps, treat their girls like goddesses at first, groom them, then spit in their faces, beat them up, make theo totally 'co dependant', STI's, another big problem. I feel very sad, this girl is truly looking at a life of hell.
By Michele.. Posted January 25 2009 at 11:21 PM.
i am also an ex woolies worker who is in debt. i would never let myself be used and abused, i have too much respect for myself to let this happen get a GRIP girl and dont be so stupid.
By ex woolies worker.. Posted January 25 2009 at 6:08 PM.
Poor girl. She looses her job at Woolworths and has to become a escort to pay her way. I bet all the Woolies execs are all doing fine financially after receiving huge salaries for years, they must have nice nest eggs. It's tragic. I would prefer her to claim benefits to be honest, then she could train to be a counsellor. That would be the best thing for her, and society. I hope she makes enough money to pay her debts off and then gets out quick.
By James.. Posted January 25 2009 at 2:26 PM.
Fantastic, where do I book?
By Martin.. Posted January 25 2009 at 1:54 PM.
Good luck to her i say, as long as she is practising safe sex.
By susie.. Posted January 25 2009 at 1:47 PM.
Good luck to her.
By maxfan.. Posted January 25 2009 at 1:44 PM.
Poor kid, I hope she gets a decent job soon and can get on with her life and forget the last few months.
By Alex Davidson.. Posted January 25 2009 at 1:05 PM.
Nothing wrong in what she is doing, not as if she is married with kids and hiding it from them, seems to pay well too.
Only thing is, if the economy picked up and she was offered other jobs, would she be able to take a pay cut.
By Graham.. Posted January 25 2009 at 12:18 PM.
so what ...we should be concentrating on the forecoming ``holocast day`` and remembering THAT LESSONS ARE STILL ``NOT`` LEANRT
By anon.. Posted January 25 2009 at 12:26 PM.
In answer to your question Dave, the foriegners get jobs here because they are cheap labour, they do not have high overheads as they have about 10-12 people sharing one house, then the bulk of their money goes back to their own countries.
The foriegners you so fondly speak of are one of the reasons why this country is in the state it is in.
Because companies will use their cheap labour over British wokers.
By Denise.. Posted January 25 2009 at 12:35 PM.
Standing on her feet all day at Woolies, lieing on her back all day now. What's best ?
By blueeyes.. Posted January 25 2009 at 11:20 AM.
What ashame...i bet its the same GREEDY financial people who have caused the current ecomonic crisis, who are her clients...if so then you now know where our Tax Bailout money is going....If i were her i would set a target amount, as it is you don`t have to pay taxes on the earnings its all cash.... an get out and do the councilling course....Nothing wrong in Escorting, but if thats not what you want to do for the rest of your life then earn enough an get out.......
By Vik.. Posted January 25 2009 at 10:07 AM.
She hasn't hurt anyone so leave her alone, there are a lot more important things going on at the moment.
By Fred James.. Posted January 25 2009 at 10:28 AM.
Will she take the Woolies vouchers i`ve got left ????
By fedupwith beingtakenforaride.. Posted January 25 2009 at 10:34 AM.
In fairness to this lovely young lady, her business venture is proving to be more lucrative than anything that her bumbling former employers ever managed to conjure up.
By Cam.. Posted January 25 2009 at 10:33 AM.
I said this would happen almost a year ago now.People who are going to struggle and who are not used to not having a job and those who were living the high(I'VE BROUGHT MY HOUSE...NOT)life,the women will sell themselves and the men will turn to robbery.And don't think for one minute the government don't know this!
By Serious.. Posted January 25 2009 at 9:18 AM.
Zara ..Thats the wonder of Woolies .
By Turkey Herald .. Posted January 25 2009 at 8:46 AM.
If she is £2000 in debt and charges £100 a time working say a 4 hour day mon - fri shes paid it off in 1 week so why not stop after 2 weeks and then she has money for her course, no because it's to easy if there are willing punters and she can earn over £100,000 a year in cash no wonder her boyfriend is not working.
By pk.. Posted January 25 2009 at 8:55 AM.
what this girl is doing is very stupid indeed and she should stop it right this minute.
Try talking to the credit cards companies and and the other debtors and explain that you have been made redundant -they will help because they have an agreement with the government to help people that ask for help they will freeze the interest for one.
get out of the escort business before it ruins your life -it is not fun and if u are lucky u will live to regret it
By JOHN.. Posted January 25 2009 at 8:34 AM.
It is difficult to say that capitalism should be condemned. But, nevertheless, the reality is that the system has forced this woman into degradation. How regrettable!!!!!
By Cecil Archer.. Posted January 25 2009 at 2:13 AM.
£100 an hour! I can remember when you could get anything from Woolworths for sixpence. I hope the girls from my local Woolies don't go on the game, I wouldn't even give them a penny chew let alone a bit of pick-n-micks.
Rip-off Britain :-(
By Justice_4_Mick.. Posted January 25 2009 at 2:00 AM.
fare play to her. to meny judge metal people about and to be honest its nothing to do with anyone else.escorting is not sleze like people think been around 100s ov years go for it hun xxx
By tanni.. Posted January 25 2009 at 12:21 AM.
Selling sex is not a solution. Why dont her moved out from her current place to better city... i bet there's still alot of job opportunity out there... if all the young girls her want to sell sex... whats the solution? does 27000 ppl from woolies going to do the same? why keep on expecting goverment to help? Alot of foreingers manage to get job.. why not local?....
By dave.. Posted January 24 2009 at 11:46 PM.