Sam Heath could pass for a footballer's wife with her tumbling hair extensions, big boobs, and wardrobe of designer bags, shoes and clothes. The only thing missing is a man on her arm, but she still reaps all the benefits of having a rich fella - through her secret dates with other women's fellas! Samantha, 23, from Essex, has a charmed life thanks to her two Sugardaddies who she met on the site seekingarrangement.com.a site overflowing with male business executives that earn on average £170,000 a year and are portraying themselves as sugar daddies.
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The men on the site are joined by a bevy of attractive women who are generally 13 years younger and are dubbed ‘sugar babies’, exchanging their affection for extravagant gifts, dates and travel.
She has been using the site for the last year and doesn't date other guys. Both are married and very rich. They're good looking and great company too and love to lavish their money on her. In the last 12 months she has been on trips to Los Angeles, Ibiza and Portugal.
It's a far cry from the trips to Tenerife her old boyfriends would take her on. And as business is slow for her in her work as a mobile beauty therapist, the cash they lavish on her is much needed.
Samantha said: "I was fed up with dating guys who couldn't afford to even buy a round of drinks on a date. I'd had an upsetting break up and a friend suggested the site to cheer me up.
"She'd met a few guys on there and had been taken on lovely dates, and just used it as a bit of fun. I'm actually quite shy myself so I was nervous going on there at first.
"I looked at the other girls on there and they were all pretty glam, so I took some snaps of myself looking my best and signed up. I was shocked when I saw it at first.
"It even had a section where you can choose how much you want spending on you! I felt cheeky so I left that blank.
"In the space of a couple of days I had e-mails from all over the world!" Sam sifted through the messages and started chatting to a guy from London who caught her eye.
She said: "He was young, only in his early 30s, and nice looking. I explained that I wasn't ready for any kind of relationship but I'd just like to go on some nice dates.
"The guy, Paul, explained that he was married but was looking for a lady in his life to spoil. It sounded to good to be true, but when I met him in the Sanderson hotel in London for a coffee he was just gorgeous.
"He turned up with a lovely Tiffany necklace, very simple, but I was so touched. We chatted and he filled me in about his work for a bank in the city and his life at home.
"His wife had fell pregnant a couple of months after they met. He was only 34 but had a 14-year-old and he said the spark had gone but he had to stay for the child.
"On the one hand I knew what we were doing was wrong, but then I justified it to my self by thinking, 'well he deserves some happiness!'
"We shared a quick kiss and I went back to Essex. But there was chemistry between us and I wanted to see him again. We had another drink a few days later and this time I got tipsy and we had a snog.
"The e mails and messages kept on going back and forth. He told me how beautiful I was and made me feel so much better than the guys I'd met before.
"Two weeks after we met, he said he was working away and we went away for the weekend together. That was the first time we slept together and the sex was great too.
"It just continued from there. I know he felt guilty because I couldn't ever be more than a mistress, and he would constantly shower me with gifts to compensate.
"I'd see a handbag in a magazine and he'd give me the cash to treat myself. It would be £500 or a £1000 a time. I'd have to pinch myself!
"I love films and told him I'd always dreamed of going to the States, so when he went on a work trip there, he took me with him. I flew business class and drank champagne. It was like being in a bubble!" But Paul's wife grew suspicious after finding a bank statement showing cash withdrawals and he backed off.
Sam said: "I was gutted. I realised I was getting attached to him emotionally, so it was probably the shock I needed. But at the same time I was also dependant on him financially.
"I'd grown used to his generosity, and to be totally honest, often, he'd tell me to treat myself to a Mulberry bag for £750 and I'd get a high street version and live on the cash!
"Men can never tell. The same went with shoes. I'd get fake Louboutins on e bay and tell him they were real. So I found another guy, Marcus.
"Again, he was married and very handsome. By now I knew how to play the game, and I told myself I wasn't going to get attached. What makes me laugh about these married men is they all say the same.
"Their wives are wonderful when they're dating, then once they're married, they put on weight, stop having sex and just moan and nag all the time. They're asking for trouble!
"I still carried on seeing Paul, but not as often, and because he missed me he was even more generous. Marcus doesn't know that though.
"Marcus is very kind too. I was upset recently because I lost out on a contract at work, so he paid for me and a friend to go to Tenerife. And I've been with him when he's been on a golfing holiday to Portugal. I just lounge by the pool all day. We've been to Ibiza for weekends too.
"We meet every two weeks, usually for a day and a night over a weekend, in different cities away from London, and he'll take me out shopping and treat me.
"He pays for me to have real Racoon hair extensions, which are up to £600 a time, whereas before I was buying the hair online and fitting them myself.
"We do sleep together and I enjoy having sex with him, but I know he won't ever be mine. It doesn't bother me though. I know it's just an arrangement and it wont last forever, but for now, I'm happy."
Sam says that in the long term, she is looking for love.
She said: "I'm only 23 and I'm not going to look as good as I do at the moment forever. I'd like to settle down one day, but the guys who chat me up when I'm out just seem so immature.
"I've been spoiled by Marcus and Paul and I think I'd struggle to go back to a normal guy. But if I did meet someone and had the whole 'love at first sight' thing, I would give up my Sugardaddies.
"As long as I was comfortable, and not totally skint, I'd be happy. But for now I'm just enjoying having fun. I can live like a single girl, but still have the sex and presents. I've got the best of both worlds!"
www.seekingarrangement.com's European launch party was at The Gore Hotel in London on Sunday (May 20).