Breast milk is considered to be the most essential and nutritious food for infants. Sometimes mothers go through a condition of excess milk, which is when they help out other moms who do not have enough due to medical reasons.
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One such mother of two was helping other mothers too. However, she has started making thousands of pounds by selling her breast milk! Rafaela Lamprou, from Cyprus, sells to bodybuilders who are ditching steroids for the more organic product.
Lamprou gave birth to a son Anjelo seven months back soon realized that she was producing excessive amounts of breast milk and was running out of space to store it. The 24-year-old young mother started to donate the milk to women who were struggling to produce milk on their own - until men began to approach her for her milk.
She soon got inquiries from bodybuilder men who wanted to replace their supplements with breast milk, and told that it was good for building muscle mass.
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After realising that the demand for breast milk was high among bodybuilders, Lamprou decided to start selling the two litres of milk she was producing a day - and began charging male buyers €1 (89p) per ounce. And the mum has made ?4,500 so far on the nearly 500 litres of breast milk she has sent to strangers.
She has a website set up where men can approach her for milk even though she does not know what they do after buying it.
Now Lamprou, who lives with her husband Alex and their two sons, breastfeeds on demand to keep up with the male customer need - a side business she admits is ¡°quite addictive.¡±