By Joyce Lim

Cheryl is a former model. She's tall, curvy, confident and to friends, hot. She is also a medical sales representative.

Netizens have been intrigued by the lifestyle of female sales executives since an IT executive was linked to a high-level probe here by graft busters, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.

Cheryl knows of the probe. She also knows friends and colleagues who wonder if she goes beyond using her pretty face to sell.

After all, Cheryl, who has been in the sales line for five years, has heard all kinds of stories about women who use their bodies to clinch a deal.

Like the time she heard of how a well-known doctor was caught with his pants down with a medical sales representative in his clinic last year.

"Using sex to get more sales is not unusual in the sales line, not just the medical industry," says Cheryl, who works for a multinational company that sells medicine here.

But she believes only a small number do that.

In her line of work, she visits doctors in the hospitals and clinics, and gets them to commit to her company's products.

"That way, the order for my drugs will increase and so will my sales commission," says Cheryl, who is in her 30s.