I earn £208,000 and buy designer stuff for a 2-year-old, but I'm NOT giving up the town hall
As she uploads her latest makeup tutorial to TikTok and Facebook, 30-year-old mother-of-three Whitney Ainscough pouts and adds gloss to her lips with fillers.
Within half an hour the video has been viewed and increased by 10,000 times.
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And with the views comes a tyrant of comments… and they are NOT positive.
“Your lips look like a baboon's buttocks,” says one hater. “Sponger and wrong un,” says another. “Disgusting – get a job,” reads another.
While a fourth troll went further and angrily wrote: “You should be banned and your children taken away from you.”
All the trolls believe the same thing: that Whitney, from Rotherham, South Yorks., has used her benefit money to fund a lavish lifestyle in which she makes adjustments and buys posh goodies for her children.
It is true that until August last year Whitney was on benefits of £1.2ka a month and received subsidized rent for her council house.
“It's an absolute p***take, living on benefits,” says one of her TikTok followers. “Why do we work?”
But the truth now is that Whitney, mum to Cora, 11, Addison, six, and Adley, two, can earn as much as £4,000 a month (or possibly £208,000 a year) since her social media pages from started.
But despite her heavy monthly salary, she still lives in a council house with her children and partner, painter Joel Christopher, 32. Her rent is £450 a month.
She doesn't give up and requests a bigger one.
“I deserve it,” she says. “Everyone has the right to apply for a council house. If you are working or have Universal Credit, all you need to do is put yourself on your council's housing list.
“Then, depending on the points system used by the municipalities, you can reach the top of the list and be offered a house or flat.”
Now people have gone even crazier – because Whitney has flown to Egypt and paid £4,000 to have 80% of her stomach removed – something they initially thought she had done on the NHS.
“It's called Barbie surgery,” she says. “My body mass index (BMI) is only 30.05 – the minimum BMI to undergo the operation. I had to stuff myself at Christmas to have the operation. It is worth it.
“Yes, some of the money used for the surgery would have been saved when I applied for benefits. But it's my free money and I do what I want with it.”
Get off your ass and get a job.
Internet troll
Whitney's followers are outraged by this.
“You should be ashamed of yourself,” one wrote, while another said: “Go away and get a job.”
A third troll stated: “You need to be reported to the DWP.”
Whitney unapologetically flaunts her controversial life, which includes getting her belly button pierced by her daughter, then 11, eating takeaways every night and splashing out on a stomach sleeve for a view.
And she says she loves the mean comments because as TikTok and Facebook's ratings have skyrocketed, Whitney has seen her income soar.
“I get criticized all the time and you know what, I love it,” she says. 'Every time people complain about me, I get more money. You should have seen my December salary package.
Everyone has the right to request a town hall. If you are working or have universal credit, all you need to do is put yourself on your local council's housing list.
Whitney Ainscough
“So every time they insult me, I get more money to spend on 'benefits' like lip filler, a gastric band and designer clothes for my children. I don't care what they say. Bring it on. It's my money.
“How I pay for my kids' treats or my mommy makeover is no one's business. I love spoiling my children. I love to pamper myself and I will use any financial means possible to get the perfect body. The trolls are just jealous.
“The more trolls attack me for using 'benefits' for a gastric band and lip filler, the better.”
Whitney worked until she went on maternity leave in 2021 to have her third child. When this was completed in May 2022, the cost of childcare fees and additional childcare costs meant she could not afford to return to work.
“So I went on benefits and received £1,153 a month from the taxpayer,” she says. “I learned to live by 'saving smartly on benefits'. Because I budgeted carefully, I was able to afford designer items for the kids.”
I earn the monthly salary of normal people in one week.
Whitney Ainscough
Its benefits include Universal Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance, council tax relief, free prescriptions and living expenses payments.
“I had no intention of turning down cash that I am legally entitled to,” she says. “When I was working I earned £2,000 before tax. After tax and NIC were taken out, I was actually better off on Universal Credit than when I was working.
But now the tide has turned and she no longer receives benefits after earning above the threshold.
And she boasts: “I earn the monthly wage of a normal person in one week.”
At Christmas, Whitney spent more than £3,000 on gifts for her children, including the latest iPhones and iPads.
The keyboard warriors can fuck all they want – it just pays for my life.
Whitney Ainscough
Adjustments include lip filler and smile lines, manicures, pedicures, Botox, deep tissue massages, her 'Barbie gastric bypass' and later this year she will return to Egypt for a breast enlargement and reshaping and a tummy tuck.
And she claims her social media pages are a real job.
“With Universal Credit you are encouraged to retrain and go back to work,” she says. “I did that and thanks to the trolls I am now really rich.
'Who cares if I get cheated and slaughtered for spending 'benefits' on myself?
“The keyboard warriors can fuck all they want – it just pays for my life.”