TAYLOR STARLING is well known for wowing her social media followers with saucy snaps - but she was once left disfigured after a brutal bare-knuckle boxing match.
The 27-year-old dived into the bare-knuckle world following mixed results in kickboxing, boxing and MMA.
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Killer Bee seems to have found her home in the sport's top promotion, winning three of her five brutal bouts in BKFC.
Bare-knuckle boxers seldom escape bouts without brutal facial injuries - which are part and parcel of the trade.
But Starling was left looking unrecognisable after her 2021 clash with fellow OnlyFans star Charisa Sigala - a former opponent of ex-UFC star Paige VanZant.
The mum-of-two was victorious in the five-rounder, having her hand raised courtesy of a unanimous decision victory.
But she was left with multiple war wounds for her efforts, the worst of which was a horrific shiner under her right eye.
A bloody and dented nose was an additional reward for the American as well as a swollen top lip.
Speaking after her BKFC debut, Starling said: "It was really tough, it was fun - I enjoyed it.
"It was definitely a different ball game but I had a blast."
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Being cracked to the face by bare knuckles took some getting used to for the blonde bruiser.
She said: "The thing that surprised me the most was that small shots hurt really bad. There are big shots that don't hurt as bad.
"But something as simple as taking a knuckle and slicing your eyebrow - a small knuckle definitely hurts a lot more than you think."
Starling dished out her fair share of punishment to Sigala, whom she dropped in the first round.
She said of her foe: "She had a lot of heart. I definitely thought she was going to be put away and that we weren't going to go the full five rounds.
"But I'm glad we did because I enjoy taking it all in and taking those five rounds and really putting a show on for people.
"Because that's what people come for."
Starling picked up back-to-back wins over Cassie Robb and Hannah Guy after her clash with Sigala before suffering a 40-second defeat to Christine Ferea.
She got back in the win column with a boxing win over Angelica Martinez but suffered a second successive BKFC defeat to Jade Masson-Wong in May.
When she's not in the ring, Starling is hard at work looking after her two children.
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She supplements her income by selling behind-the-scenes and sexy content on the adult subscription website OnlyFans.
Starling - who has been called the "world's sexiest bare-knuckle boxer" on her Instagram comments - has faced strong criticism over her use of the platform.
But she has defended herself by saying: "I always say to people, if you don’t pay my bills, and you don’t put food in my kids’ mouths, your opinion [doesn’t mean] s*** to me'.
"I hate it, and if people don’t want to do it, or you think that it’s wrong so you wouldn’t do that, I understand.
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"But at the same time, to do that to follow your dreams, follow your career and make s*** happen, to sit and say that you wouldn’t do something so simple as having a fan site, or an OnlyFans.
"[This is for me] to be able to do what [I] genuinely want to do."
