Instagram star Anna Bey helps women get dates with billionaires
IF YOU want to bag yourself a billionaire husband, who you gonna call? Well, you might want to start with 32-year-old Anna Bey.
HER job is to bag billionaire boyfriends for women wanting to live a luxurious lifestyle.
At 32, Anna Bey teaches women how to enter high society and “transform themselves” to “live up to their potential”.
As the founder of JetsetBabe.com, Ms Bey — who dates a banker — says her affluent lifestyle is down to one thing — the men she chooses to date.
Originally from Sweden, Ms Bey left home at 19 and travelled to Italy, where she was introduced to the wealthy lifestyle by a “typical rich kid”.
Earlier this week, the Instagram star said once you dip your toe in to the world of wealth, it’s hard to jump out.
“Once you’ve tried this luxurious lifestyle it’s hard to go back,” she told British TV hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford, citing that she couldn’t fall in love with a man without money.
“There are unwritten rules that we have to adapt to if we want to be a part of that lifestyle.
“So that usually means that you have to do a transformation with yourself. With your looks, your behaviour, everything.”
In order to maintain her lifestyle and continue dating wealthier men, Anna herself has lost 15kg and had a nose job as well as fillers in her cheekbones and chin.
“I’m totally pro plastic surgery, if it’s going to improve your life quality, which it might,” she told London newspaper The Times.
“It can help you attract a higher quality of partner.”
When questioned about equality and whether she simply runs a school for gold-diggers, Ms Bey said her teachings at her “School of Affluence” help women to understand there’s nothing wrong with living off wealthy partners.
“The women should have a choice — whether she would work or not,” she said.
“I don’t think (working) should be forced upon women in high society. I don’t think women should be judged if they’re not working.
“I don’t think everybody has to do this. I’m speaking to a particular type of women who wants to upgrade her lifestyle.
“I don’t think I could (date someone who isn’t wealthy). I do prioritise a comfortable lifestyle, as well as love.”
In an in-depth interview with The Times, Ms Bey admits her lifestyle has resulted in partying and socialising with famous faces in extraordinary places.
“So there was one time when I was partying with Paris Hilton on a billionaire’s private yacht — that was supercool,” she said.
“Or another time I was dating an extremely rich guy, travelling with him everywhere. It was like being in a movie: there were always bodyguards; he’d give you cash in a bag and say, ‘Hey, go shopping.’”
Ms Bey, who has over 13k followers on Instagram, says men have offered her a “fast track” into an affluent lifestyle for her and her clients.
“It’s easy to think they can solve all your problems and there’s nothing wrong with wanting that,” she said.
“But there are some very nasty, evil people in the rich world. It took me a while to navigate it and to be fine in it. I want my girls to be clever about how you position yourself, because that will become your protection.”
Her online finishing school, the School of Affluence, aims to help other women avoid common mistakes made when dating wealthy men and entering the world of the rich.
Some of her online tutorial classes include how to behave on a yacht, how to eat an oyster and how to dress.
“To succeed in the jetset world you have to have elegance, but that came later for me,” she said.
“In the beginning, I wouldn’t say I was behaving trashily, but I could have been more refined. I was using bad language. I could be a bit aggressive. I used to get drunk — that’s not classy.
“I had to figure it all out by myself and I’ve always said I wished I had someone like me around to help, because my journey would have gone so much faster. But the other girls I was hanging out with were so tight-lipped. No one wanted to share their secrets.”
According to The Times, Ms Bey was born in Estonia, then part of the Soviet Union, but her family emigrated to Stockholm in search of a better life when she was three. Today, her mother is a lawyer and her stepfather (she’s never met her Finnish father) works in IT.
The 32-year-old has a closed Facebook group where women are able to discuss the good and bad of being in relationships like Ms Bey.
She said more often than not, she is criticised for her teachings about relationships — but doesn’t let that phase her.
“We’re very niche and the topics we discuss are very taboo,” she said.
“So many people judge us. They say it’s just a gold-diggers’ club, but it’s not. They’ll say, ‘You’re an escort,’ ‘You’re a whore’ — I know, I’ve been called all those things.”
When it comes to paying her own way, either at a restaurant or on holiday, Ms Bey said men should bear the brunt of all costs because women have to endure enough burdens in life.
“Feminism is really important for me,” she said. I used to march for it in Sweden.
“But women have a lot of disadvantages in society, so let us have some fairness when it comes to money. Don’t make us split things.
“I’m pro-equality, but in the animal kingdom and in humans there are gender roles. Men should provide for us because that is their instinct and it’s how they express their masculinity, and women express their femininity in other ways. If we blend them together, the biggest loser will be the woman.”
But despite her view on money, she insists women shouldn’t throw away their career and independence.
“I don’t support the idea that women are totally dependent on men,” she said. It’s too risky. “Everyone should have savings, work experience. If something happened to my partner I don’t want to be left standing on the street.
“When I met my boyfriend he was like, ‘I’m happy to provide for you, but you need to occupy yourself with something you’re passionate about’.
“For the first time I’ve found the right balance of a man who offers me the lifestyle I have always wanted but who is also very genuine. I feel I can trust him. I think it helps that we have the same background. He didn’t come from a rich family either.”