An Aussie mum has revealed how she was reported to police over her OnlyFans career and the heartbreaking way her son found out about her controversial job.
Lucy Banks, 34, turned to creating explicit content in 2019 after she was newly divorced and trying to find a way to raise her children while also seeking financial security.
The Perth-based mum began a career in corporate banking when she was 17 years old, but ditched the 60-hour weeks after speaking with a friend who had joined the adult content site.
‘I got married at 22 and I was quite conservative,’ Ms Banks told Daily Mail.
‘But I saw the commercial side of OnlyFans and I knew that if I did this right and if I did it strategically, I could possibly set myself and my kids up, which is what I did.’
Ms Banks said a lot of people assumed she was having a ‘mental breakdown’, but the career choice was an ‘obvious decision to make so I could have freedom to be there for my young kids’.
The mum initially kept her X-rated career hidden from her children and planned to be honest with them when they were old enough, but the decision over when to tell them was cruelly taken away from her.
Ms Banks was threatened by a subscriber who told her they were contacting her children’s school.
Lucy Banks, 34, joined OnlyFans in 2019 after a divorce left her trying to find a way to raise her children while also seeking financial security
Ms Banks ditched working 60-hour weeks in corporate banking for creating X-rated content
The anonymous subscriber told her ‘I hope you’re prepared to face all the school mums tomorrow because everyone’s going to know’.
‘I didn’t understand, my kids weren’t exposed to anything,’ she said.
‘They were sheltered from everything and had no idea, and rightly so because they were young at the time.
‘I then had a conversation with a police officer about something unrelated and he told me, “There’s been five complaints to the department of child protection about you”, and I burst into tears.’
Ms Banks said the police officer was ‘lovely’ and reassured her she was ‘not under suspicion’.
She explained she had been creating adult content for four years before someone told her two children about it.
‘I understand when someone you know who’s a mum does OnlyFans, that’s quite shocking but don’t people trust me enough to make sure my kids are safe?’ Ms Banks said.
‘It was pretty easy not to expose them to it until one of those people that said, “You shouldn’t be doing that”, told the kids about it. How is that any better?’
The Perth-based mum broke down in tears when a police officer told her they had received several complaints about her controversial career
Ms Banks made $1.5million, bought four houses within 15 months and sent her two children to private school
The former OnlyFans star, who stopped making explicit content two years ago, revealed her desire for financial stability was the driving force behind her career choice.
‘I didn’t do this because I haven’t bought designer bags or got a boob job, but I sent my two kids to private schools and they have the best medical specialists,’ she said.
Ms Banks made $1.5million and bought four houses within 15 months.
‘I stand by what I did because yes it cost me the opinion of a lot of people, but the situation with my ex-husband was very difficult and it would’ve been hard letting daycare raise my kids while I worked 60-hour weeks at the bank,’ she said.
‘A lot of people have to do that because they don’t have a choice. I had a choice and I still think it was the best choice for me.’
Ms Banks ditched OnlyFans after identifying a gap in the market and formed her own marketing agency for X-rated creators.
‘OnlyFans creators are leveraging the way they look to make money and I think there’s an argument to be said that everyone is selling themselves in some way, whether that’s OnlyFans or you’re a labourer or you work in an office.
‘Not everyone is comfortable to show themselves online and that is fine, but it is okay if that’s what empowers others.’
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Aussie mum made $1.5million after swapping her banking career for a controversial new job – then a ‘friend’ told her children… and the cops