Know Suzy Favor Hamilton, famous Olympian who became sex worker

New Delhi:Three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton who took to prostitution, said she coped with depression and a troubled marriage by turning to a life of prostitution.In a series of posts to her Twitter account, Favor Hamilton acknowledged working as an escort."I do not expect people to understand," Favor Hamilton tweeted. "But the reasons for doing this made sense to me at the time and were very much related to depression."According one website 44-year-old athlete was working for a Las Vegas escort service that booked her for dates there, as well as in Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago. She charged $600 an hour for her services.One of the country's best-ever middle-distance runners, Favor Hamilton competed for the U.S. at the Olympics in 1992, 1996 and 2000 but did not win a medal. She won seven U.S. national titles. Favor Hamilton told the website that only her husband was aware of her escort work, but that, "He tried, he tried to get me to stop. He wasn't supportive of this at all."The website reported that Favor Hamilton worked under the alias "Kelly Lundy" but said she told some of her clients about her true identity and suspected one of them leaked it.Soon after the story appeared online, Favor Hamilton released a series of tweets saying in part that she was "drawn to escorting in large part because it provided many coping mechanisms for me when I was going through a very challenging time with my marriage and my life."