'Emotional support stripper' in Ukraine has run in with mafia after weird Putin request – Daily Star
Fan-Pei Koung, a beauty pageant competitor who moved to Ukraine to become an ’emotional support stripper’ for troops fighting against Putin, claims she’s had a run in with the local mafia
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A model who moved to Ukraine to become an "emotional support stripper" for troops fighting against Russia says she's been hanging out with the mafia.
Fan-Pei Koung, 33, is a beauty pageant competitor who moved to Ukraine from Houston, Texas. She also flogs racy pictures online and made her subscription service free for Ukrainian fighters.
She describes herself as a "globe-trotting girlfriend" and has been collecting donations to help the war effort against Vladimir Putin.
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Taking to Instagram, she revealed that yesterday (Wednesday, August 23) she "hung out" with the "mafia" – who she described as "the Third Government in the Slavic World".
Fan-Pei revealed she managed to make one particularly scary moment "hilarious". She wrote: "Someone started loudly sharpening their knife behind me. Do you know what I did? I showed him how to do it correctly. It was hilarious.
"I like this new person I'm becoming, she's much more dangerous and gives fewer f**ks."
Her post comes just days after another in which she addressed Putin directly and bizarrely asked him to take her "hostage".
Fan-Pei wrote: "Dear Vladimir Putin.
"If you'd like, you can take me hostage until I can think of a way for both of us to get out. I can't promise I can solve your problems, but I will do my best to be your Personal Scheherazade until the world helps you set me free.
"You know where I am already. I trust you. I trust you like a tiny, shivering animal in the palm of your hand must trust a force mightier than she can possibly imagine. The animal is hope. I promise."
According to The Daily Beast, Fan-Pei first visited Ukraine in November 2022 to volunteer in women’s shelters and orphanages in Lviv, a city in the west of the country.
She left after a month and had plans to move to Mexico to live with another influencer. She said: "But as soon as I left, I desperately wanted to come back to Ukraine. I was losing my mind trying to get back."
So in February 2023 she returned, this time moving to Kyiv to be closer to the fighting.
She has amassed more than 50,000 Instagram followers off the back of her racy content.
On her subscription site she says she has been collecting donations, taking water to the frontlines and teaching children English.
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