We would all do anything for our kids. For Lucy Banks, that looks like trading a corporate career for a webcam and building an empire in the process.
All while dodging shade during the school run, standing tall through the whispers, and doing what needed to be done.
“No one was coming to save me. I didn’t have parents I could move back in with,” Banks told Kidspot.
“I didn’t have any savings or anything like that. So, although it seemed drastic to some people, it just made sense for me.”
She created an account on OnlyFans. Not for attention. For survival.
‘I got a lot of hate, a lot of judgment, a lot of abuse’
The mom of three wasn’t chasing clout or quick cash. She was choosing presence over burnout.
“People say they’d do anything for their kids,” she said.
“Well, this was my anything.”
The Perth mom had been grappling with a divorce, her full-time job as a banker, and the exhausting reality of single mom life.
When her son asked, “Do we have to go to day care? We miss you,” she decided enough was enough.
“It was such a line in the sand for me. I was like, ‘I can’t do this.’ Like, it really broke me,’” she revealed.
The judgment was swift and brutal once people came to learn of her career change.
“I think the first assumption people made was that ‘She’s lost her mind. She’s crazy. She’s going through a divorce. She’s on OnlyFans. What is she doing?’” Banks said.
“I got a lot of hate, a lot of judgment, a lot of abuse.”
‘People had contacted child protection’
But the cost of her decision didn’t stop at judgmental stares. Things got much worse.
“I had women subscribe to my OnlyFans page, screenshot everything, and send it in groups,” Banks revealed.
“I had a rock thrown in my yard and somebody had written ‘Slut’’ on it.”
Scared for her safety and her children’s, she moved. But then came something even more confronting.
A police officer told her “that they had had multiple complaints” about her.
“People had also contacted child protection and when I heard that, I just burst into tears,” Banks shared.
The officer reassured her. There’d never been any formal investigation, no phone calls, no welfare checks. That’s because there was no cause for concern.
“My kids are never, ever exposed to anything. They’re never unsafe,” Banks said.
The officer reminded her that when people make baseless complaints like this, it says more about them than it does about her.
‘They don’t need to know that their mom is on OnlyFans’
But perhaps the cruelest blow came when someone told her eldest son about her work before she had the chance to do so herself.
“He was told by somebody, ‘Don’t you know that your mom does OnlyFans?’” Lucy revealed
He was just 10 years old at the time. Someone had taken away her power as a parent.
It wasn’t a conversation she was avoiding. Just one she wanted to handle when the time was right.
“My kids were too young to know what nudes were or pornography was,” she said.
“They don’t need to know that their mom is on OnlyFans … someone took that away from me.”
Over the years, plenty of comments have dented Banks, but there’s one in particular that still stings.
“’What do you think you’re doing? Do you really think you’re going to become a rich single mom?’” a former friend had scoffed.
The irony? That’s exactly what she did.
Banks has built her empire brick by brick. She is now running her own PR and marketing agency, Million Billion, and becoming the only woman to own the Adult Industry Choice Awards.
“A lot of the big porn companies and a lot of the big corporations in the adult world are all owned by men. I have a real thing about people who want to earn sex worker money, but without doing sex work themselves. I don’t think it’s fair,” she explained.
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