Sara-Kate hadn’t planned on becoming a sugar baby.Then again, most people don’t. On a whim during her senior year at Tufts University, Sara-Kate joined Seeking Arrangement, a popular app that matches wannabe sugar babies and daddies to create potentially lucrative arrangements.
The first excursion she went on through the app was, to her, much like a “normal date” – other than the way it ended.
“We got drinks and dinner,” Sara-Kate told INSIDER. “Then, he drove me back to campus and when he dropped me off he was like, ‘I had a great time. Does $500 sound good?'”
She was taken aback. ” I hadn’t known that it was going to be that kind of amount right away. My first impression was, ‘Wow, this is so easy,'” she told INSIDER. “And I got pretty obsessed. “
But being a sugar baby can be more complicated that many people realize. In a conversation with INSIDER, Sara-Kate broke down some of the most common misconceptions that people have about sugar babies.
Being a sugar baby isn’t all about receiving extravagant gifts
The general idea is that a young (and attractive) woman meets regularly with an older (and wealthy) man, and the young woman is then showered with gifts as a “reward” for spending time with the man.
These gifts, to be clear, are expensive ones. First class flights, lavish beauty treatments, designer bags, luxury jewelry, or, simply, some stacks of cash to be used however the woman – AKA the sugar baby – sees fit. Continue reading “An ex-sugar baby reveals 4 things people always get wrong about the job”