This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Palmar Kelly, 27, a TikTok creator who posts content about working as a sugar baby. It has been edited for length and clarity. I knew the move made sense to build my career, but I was struggling to make ends meet.
I tried working conventional jobs, but they took up all of my time, and I couldn't imagine spending the rest of my life waking up and doing the same thing every day, so my friends and I decided to become sugar babies.
In , I signed up for a website and started talking to sugar daddies. One of the sugar daddies I met took me and some of his other sugar babies on a trip. We all got along really well and decided to start posting about our lives online. I am hoping that posting TikTok videos will help me to sell it and address society's misconceptions about my lifestyle.
Initially, I just wanted to find a guy to take care of me. But I realized I didn't want to worry they'd stop paying my rent or that I wouldn't have any money if I did something wrong.
I wanted to be able to say "no" to people if I didn't want to do something, so I decided I'd rather not commit to just one person. People often look down on being a sugar baby. I feel like they see it as dark and pathetic like it's the lowest of the low.
