Mother-of-six who made £2million in 45-year shoplifting career but now lives on benefits claims she wants a job...but won't work for less than £36,000 a year Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3284363/Mother-six-2million-45-year-shoplifting-career-lives-benefits-claims-wants-job-won-t-work-36-000-year.

A thief known as Britain's 'shoplifting queen' because she made £2million in 45 years is now purely living on benefits and refuses to get a job unless it pays more than £36,000-a-year.

Single mother-of-six Kim Farry lives rent free in a flat in Fulham and collects up to £250-per-week in cash handouts so believes that finding a normal job would force her to take a pay cut. 

The 54-year-old has calculated she needs £4,000-a-month to survive off benefits and claims employers refuse to give her work because she is ‘too common’.

Out of work: Single mother-of-six Kim Farry, 54, pictured withdrawing her £250-a-week benefits, lives rent free in a flat in Fulham and says that only a job paying £36,000-a-year will do

Ill-gotten gains: Kim boasts a designer wardrobe a star might envy and it was all bankrolled by an extraordinary life of crime worth £2million

In a new Channel 5 documentary she describes shoplifting as her 'successful business' - although she has had five spells in jail and 30 convictions - and took home £50,000-a-year through stealing.

It has paid for numerous tattoos, plastic surgery and her home is filled with designer clothes and shoes a celebrity would covet.

But explaining why she is out of work now she said: 'I've applied for a few jobs but never get anything back - they want loads of qualifications and I ain't got anything. I can't even talk properly. I'm too common. 

'I would work in a gym. There was one here at £18,000-a-year but that's not enough money. I need more money than that - I need double that.

'I just want to do a job and I need it to pay well because of the money I am used to. I don't want to work like I'm on benefits. That's the problem.