'There are hookers in Cannes who charge $30,000 a night' Chrissy Teigen

Chrissy Teigen has a highly lucrative modeling career, but she says others in her industry have resorted to picking up work as high-end prostitutes.

'Did you know there are hookers in Cannes who charge $30,000 a night?' the 28-year-old told Du Jour magazine in a new interview.

She adds: 'A lot of models go there to make their side money. I’m definitely not worth $30,000. I don’t really have much to offer.'

From full-time escorts to models, actresses and beauty queens, the call girls servicing wealthy men in Cannes' luxury hotels, and on million-dollar yachts can earn thousands of dollars a night.

According to Lebanese businessman Elie Nahas, who was arrested in 2007 for running a Cannes prostitution ring that supplied more than 50 women 'of various nationalities' to rich Middle Eastern men during the festival, the money call girls make is bigger than most people realize.

Mr Nahas, 48, who is unable to leave Lebanon while his eight-year prison sentence is being appealed, told The Hollywood Reporter in May 2013: 'They can make up to $40,000 a night.'

'Arabs are the most generous people in the world. If they like you, they will give you a lot of money. 

'At Cannes, they carry money around in wads of 10,000 euros. To them, it's just like paper,' he explained. 'They don't even like to count it. They'll just hand it to the girls without thinking.'

Ms Teigen, who is known for her self-deprecating, candid sense of humor, in addition to her stunning looks, makes another surprising revelation in the Du Jour story.

The svelte star, who has posed for the likes of Sports Illustrated, Vogue, Glamour and Cosmopolitan, claims that when she was younger, she was asked to leave a shoot for Forever 21 because she was 'too fat.'

'I showed up on set and they asked me if they could take a photo,' recalls the wife of Grammy-winning singer John Legend. 'And they shoot that photo off to my agency, who then calls me as I'm sitting in the make-up chair, and they say, "You need to leave right now. They just said that you are fat and you need to get your measurements taken."'

The five-foot-nine brunette adds: 'And I hate you, Forever 21. I hate you so much. Honestly, you're the worst.'

Ms Teigen recently made her debut as one of the hosts on MTV cooking competition show Snack-Off.

She married Mr Legend in Como, Italy, in September 2013 after dating for eight years.