US reality star Stephanie Matto might have retired after making $200,000 (approx. Rs 1.50 crore) from selling her farts, but she now wants to go one better - and sell them as NFTs.?
Stephanie recently made headlines when she announced that she had to retire from selling her farts in jars after she was hospitalized for squeezing out one too many.
The former star of TLC's "90 Day Fianc¨¦" said she made around $200,000 from selling her farts to her fans, but doctors advised her that her lucrative business was taking a toll on her body.??
Instead of abandoning the business venture entirely, Stephanie told Insider that she decided to jump on the current trend and sell her farts as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Now, Matto is hoping to carve out a space in the NFT world with her "unique" fart art.
"There's space for everybody," she told Insider.??
She had started selling her?farts?in a jar in November last year after receiving requests on the adult-content site Unfiltrd.? ?
The unique product saw her rake in the cash at $1,000 (?740) per jar though Steph offered a 50 percent discount during the festive period.?
To keep up with demand ¨C which saw her squeeze out up to 50 jars worth of?farts?a week ¨C the self-proclaimed 'fartrepreneur' opted for a fibre-high diet, living off beans and eggs.?
She later added protein shakes to the mix after discovering it made the farts smell worse.?
Last week,?Steph shared her ordeal leading up to the hospital visit, telling Jam Press: "I remember within one day I had about three protein shakes and a huge bowl of black bean soup. I?could tell that something was not right that evening when I was lying in bed and I could feel a?pressure in my stomach moving upward."?
"It was quite hard to breathe and every time I tried to breathe in I'd feel a pinching sensation around my heart.?And that, of course, made my anxiety escalate.?I actually called my friend and asked if they could come over to drive me to the hospital because I thought I was experiencing a heart attack," she added.?
Steph said her family is relieved about her retirement and she feels her colon will be, too.?
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