RING GIRL Sydney Thomas has revealed she has been DMed by some “big names” following her appearance at Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson.
The 20-year-old went viral on social media during Netflix’s coverage of YouTuber Paul’s drab win over legendary heavyweight Tyson, 58.
Sydney was one of five ring girls employed by Paul‘s Most Valuable Promotions for the fight – along with Virginia Sanhouse, Lexi Williams, Delia Sylvain and Raphaela Milagres.
And she has gained hundreds of thousands of followers online since the broadcast following her performance at the AT&T Stadium in Texas.
Now Sydney, who has 657,000 fans on Instagram, has opened up about how she came to realise she was being talked about all around the world.
Speaking to US Weekly, she said: “My DMs are just insanely flooded right now. There’s definitely been some pretty big names and brands that have reached out.
“I woke up and saw how my followers had gone up, and then saw all the news articles that had been written about me.
“I refreshed my feed and it was just pictures of me and memes and everything. I think that was the moment for me where I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, like I really am going viral’.”
She went on to add: “It is very overwhelming. But at the same time, I’m also very blessed and very grateful. You know, what a problem to have.
“I knew the exposure was going to be awesome, just the fact that it was being streamed on Netflix and it was such an iconic fight.
“But I had no idea that all the focus was going to shift from the results to the ring girl being the main star of the event. That was not even a thought in my head going into it.”
Sydney is in her final year as a student at the University of Alabama.
She is taking classes online in order to keep pace with her hectic life and is planning to continue juggling her academia with working for Paul’s MVP as a boxing ring girl.
She said: “I think what’s next for me is to continue building up my social media and continue working with [Paul’s] Most Valuable Promotions and being a ring girl.
“I think dialling into the ring girl and modeling aspect of my life and sharing that with my audience that I’ve now built up.
“And then obviously continuing with school, graduating, getting my degree and then seeing where things take me from there.”
Sydney only made her debut as a ring girl in October in Puerto Rico.
Boxing is not the only sport she has shown an interest as she is a huge fan of the St. Louis Cardinals MLB side.
She has revealed that her favourite place is the Busch Stadium and insisted that there is no place she “would rather be”.
Sydney is also a massive fan of travelling and has recently taken trips to Greece and Italy.
