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Mum Forced To Stop Selling Breast Milk – After Her Only Customers Were Men With A Fetish For It

Negative comments and odd customers put single mum Toni Ebdon off selling her breast milk

A mum who caused a stir after selling her breast milk online has admitted she has been forced to stop doing it – because her only approaches were from men with a fetish for it.  

Toni Ebdon, 31, started earning some extra cash when her son David was born five years ago, by selling her excess milk online.

Toni Ebdon from Exeter has been selling her spare breast milk on Gumtree [SWNS]
Toni Ebdon from Exeter has been selling her spare breast milk on Gumtree [SWNS]



After giving birth to her second child, she decided to repeat the process but has been put off because of the type of customer she’s experienced.

Ebdon, from Devon, would charge £15 for 4ozs of her milk but says the only people interested in buying it were ‘balding, middle aged men’ with a weird liking for it.

“I think it's quite sick adults wanting to drink breast milk but there are much worse things people do,” says Ebdon. “As long as they're not hurting anyone it doesn't bother me.

"The buyers were all men. They were all pretty much the same because they were middle-aged and balding. One even looked like a professor with his tweed jacket and glasses.”

Some fitness fanatics drink breast milk to bulk up [Rex]
Some fitness fanatics drink breast milk to bulk up [Rex]



Ebdon, who’s a single mum, says she made enough money to get by until her maternity pay came through – and admits that some men are willing to pay A LOT for her milk. “One man offered me £50 an ounce for it fresh but I refused,” she says.

Ebdon made a name for herself after selling her breast milk online and was even investigated by social services.

“People also called me a bad mum and accused me of putting my baby in danger,” she says.

But Ebdon says her side business never put her children in danger and the ‘transaction’ was never done at her home. “I would meet [buyers] in town in a crowded place and would arrive before them and go to several places afterwards to make sure I wasn't being followed,” she says. “I never took my baby with me.”

Ebdon says most of her buyers are 'kinky' men [Rex]
Ebdon says most of her buyers are 'kinky' men [Rex]

Toni was able to sell her milk because her body produced enough of it for both her baby and her customers. 

“I had a lot of excess milk so I offered it to a breast milk bank for babies but they were full at the time,” she says.

“As I wasn't able to donate it I advertised it for sale on Gumtree which you're not allowed to do now. I wouldn't know where to sell it now.”

Ebdon's by no means the only mum to sell her breast milk. One 26-year-old mum, Rebecca Hudson, made headlines last year after admitting that she sold her excess milk to pay for her children's Christmas presents.

Hudson said that what her customers chose to do with their purchase was up to them and revealed that she had made almost £4,000 from her business.

Would you ever buy - or sell - breast milk online? Let us know in the comments.

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