An 18-year-old girl is auctioning off her virginity
on YouTube and says she plans to use the money to help her ailing mother. A
television network has offered to pay for her mother’s medical expenses so the
teenager won’t resort to the wild-eyed idea.
However, the deal fell through because Rebecca
Bernardo said the wanted enough money to purchase a new home.
“Hi, my name is Rebecca. I’m here to auction off my
virginity,” the teen says, according to a CNN report:
Bernardo told CNN she made the offer because she
was desperate to help her ailing mother. She heard about Catarina Migliorini, a
Brazilian woman who reportedly sold her virginity for $780,000 on an Australian
website seeking virgins. Migliorini has reportedly yet to finalize the deal and
receive the money, and Brazil is reportedly investigating whether the website
should be charged with human trafficking. Nevertheless, Migliorini has received
widespread publicity and modeling contracts — including a spread in Brazil’s
version of Playboy magazine.
“I made up my mind right after my 18th birthday,”
Bernardo said in an interview with CNN last month in her small, one-bedroom
house. “That’s when my mother suffered a stroke.”
The stroke left her mother bed-ridden, unable to
feed herself or go to the bathroom alone.
Bernardo said she looked for jobs and tried selling
cosmetics and working as a waitress, but without a high school degree, the pay
was minimal.
“I would get 150 reais ($75) for working all day,
which would just pay the salary of someone to stay with my mother,” she said,
after patiently feeding her mother a plate of reheated spaghetti.
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