diff --git a/consumer/junit5/src/test/groovy/au/com/dius/pact/consumer/junit5/PostImageBodyTest.groovy b/consumer/junit5/src/test/groovy/au/com/dius/pact/consumer/junit5/PostImageBodyTest.groovy
index 25c8c52a94..87665fd4e8 100644
--- a/consumer/junit5/src/test/groovy/au/com/dius/pact/consumer/junit5/PostImageBodyTest.groovy
+++ b/consumer/junit5/src/test/groovy/au/com/dius/pact/consumer/junit5/PostImageBodyTest.groovy
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class PostImageBodyTest {
         .method('POST')
         .path('/images')
         .withFileUpload('photo', 'ron.jpg', 'image/jpeg', stream.bytes)
+        .withFileUpload('text', 'ron.txt', 'text/plain', 'hello world!'.bytes)
         .willRespondWith()
         .status(200)
         .body(new PactDslJsonBody()
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ class PostImageBodyTest {
         def data = MultipartEntityBuilder.create()
           .setMode(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE)
           .addBinaryBody('photo', stream, ContentType.create('image/jpeg'), 'ron.jpg')
+          .addBinaryBody('text', 'some text stuff'.bytes, ContentType.create('text/plain'), 'ron.txt')
           .build()
         def request = RequestBuilder
           .post(mockServer.url + '/images')
diff --git a/consumer/src/main/kotlin/au/com/dius/pact/consumer/dsl/PactDslRequestBase.kt b/consumer/src/main/kotlin/au/com/dius/pact/consumer/dsl/PactDslRequestBase.kt
index f5b9e4426e..a06d889759 100644
--- a/consumer/src/main/kotlin/au/com/dius/pact/consumer/dsl/PactDslRequestBase.kt
+++ b/consumer/src/main/kotlin/au/com/dius/pact/consumer/dsl/PactDslRequestBase.kt
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ open class PactDslRequestBase(
   @JvmField
   var requestGenerators = Generators()
 
+  var multipartBuilder: MultipartEntityBuilder? = null
+
   protected fun setupDefaultValues() {
     if (defaultRequestValues != null) {
       if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(defaultRequestValues.requestMethod)) {
@@ -67,21 +69,29 @@ open class PactDslRequestBase(
       ContentType.create(fileContentType)
     else
       ContentType.DEFAULT_TEXT
-    val multipart = MultipartEntityBuilder.create()
-      .setMode(HttpMultipartMode.EXTENDED)
-      .addBinaryBody(partName, data, contentType, fileName)
-    setupMultipart(multipart)
+    if (multipartBuilder == null) {
+      multipartBuilder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create()
+        .setMode(HttpMultipartMode.EXTENDED)
+        .addBinaryBody(partName, data, contentType, fileName)
+    } else {
+      multipartBuilder!!.addBinaryBody(partName, data, contentType, fileName)
+    }
+    setupMultipart(multipartBuilder!!)
   }
 
   fun setupMultipart(multipart: MultipartEntityBuilder) {
     val entity = multipart.build()
     val os = ByteArrayOutputStream()
     entity.writeTo(os)
-    requestBody = body(os.toByteArray(),
-      au.com.dius.pact.core.model.ContentType(entity.contentType))
-    requestMatchers.addCategory("header").addRule(CONTENT_TYPE, RegexMatcher(MULTIPART_HEADER_REGEX,
-      entity.contentType))
-    requestHeaders[CONTENT_TYPE] = listOf(entity.contentType)
+    requestBody = body(os.toByteArray(), au.com.dius.pact.core.model.ContentType(entity.contentType))
+    val matchingRuleCategory = requestMatchers.addCategory("header")
+    if (!matchingRuleCategory.matchingRules.containsKey(CONTENT_TYPE)) {
+      matchingRuleCategory.addRule(CONTENT_TYPE, RegexMatcher(MULTIPART_HEADER_REGEX,
+        entity.contentType))
+    }
+    if (!requestHeaders.containsKey(CONTENT_TYPE)) {
+      requestHeaders[CONTENT_TYPE] = listOf(entity.contentType)
+    }
   }
 
   protected fun queryMatchingDateBase(field: String, pattern: String?, example: String?): PactDslRequestBase {