SIMONE TOON: I wouldn’t date somebody who
isn’t rich. For me, I don’t find it appealing. I need my lifestyle to be, you know, funded.
INTERVIEWER: So, can I just start with asking you what is a ‘sugar baby’?
SIMONE TOON: I think that people assume being
a sugar baby is just going out with some fat old man and having sex with him when he wants
and do what he says. But it’s not, it’s nothing like that. A sugar baby is somebody
that lives, likes a nice lifestyle, like in luxury. You are taken care of by an older man.
COMM: Instead of working a nine to five job,
sugar baby Simone Toon relies on rich older men or sugar daddies to fund her lavish lifestyle.
SIMONE TOON: My lifestyle on average probably
costs about no less than 4000 a month. Just to live, just to maintain everything. So,
I have a pair of Givenchy boots, which is probably my most expensive. These are like £1,200, I think,
which are nice. They are a nice gift. I also treated myself to some Louboutins,
which I love. I just bought them from Dubai.
SIMONE TOON: My favourite really is Valentino.
These are summer collection. These are really nice. And my Chanel Espadrilles, I will upgrade
them next year.
INTERVIEWER: Do you know how much all these shoes cost in total?
SIMONE TOON: Oh my God. I don’t know, probably
around 10,000, maybe, no, more than that - 20,000, 30,000, I think. Yeah.
INTERVIEWER: So, I think the first question
people will ask when they hear that someone is a sugar baby is, well, how is that different
from being say an escort or even a prostitute?
SIMONE TOON: It’s a massive difference between
being an escort and being a sugar baby. An escort is seeing different people every hour,
I’m not. I’m seeing the same person and it is a relationship. I tend to say, ok, if
I’m gonna date this person, six -seven times I go to dinner with him, fine after that,
I will sleep with them.
COMM: Simone meets her sugar daddies through
friends and a website called Seeking Arrangement, designed as a mutual meet up for rich men
looking to date attractive women seeking a nice lifestyle.
SIMONE TOON: So, normally I like to, someone
who is 15 years older than me, is 40-45. They look at you like a daughter or something.
I know, I don’t want it to sound quite sick but, you know, they, yeah, they take care
of you a lot better.
INTERVIEWER: What’s the biggest age gap?
SIMONE TOON: When I was 24 and he was 62,
which is quite big age gap, but I really liked him.
INTERVIEWER: How did your family react when
you decided at 20, this is what I am going to do, were they worried for you?
SIMONE TOON: No. My family were really supportive.
They are really like, you know, if this is what you want, then fine, go ahead. My dad
actually worked for one of my previous sugar daddies, so it benefited my family for that reason.
SIMONE TOON: So, I am just going to get my
nails done in Knightsbridge, my local saloon called Christina’s. Every, once every week
I get them done, manicure and pedicure.
INTERVIEWER: Is it harder to end a relationship
with a sugar daddy if you are financially reliant on them?
SIMONE TOON: Yeah, like I have been in situations
where I’m not happy with the person that I’m with and I haven’t broken it off just
because of the financial situation. Yeah, the sugar daddies can definitely use that
to their advantage, 100%. It actually works out better when you are a beautiful young
girl and you are, you know, dating somebody who is old and successful, because you are
both in that relationship for a reason, you know, for your own reasons.
SIMONE TOON: I had tried to do a normal job
when I came out of a sugar daddy relationship, when I was 22 and to be honest after one week
I gave it up. Because you feel like you go from being a boss, like say your sugar daddy, you know,
employs 100 people and you are by his side every day. You are kind of, they look up to
you, the staff look up to you, to then being one of the staff can, you know, to make that
change is, I can’t do that.
SIMONE TOON: I could never ever imagine being
with someone who wouldn’t treat me and wouldn’t pay for my lifestyle.