‘I was OnlyFans creator in top 1% earning $100k-a-year – and it ruined my life’

A former OnlyFans star who made $100k a year after becoming a top 1% creator says the platform “ruined” her life and left her feeling “wary” of men.

Sydney Ruiz, 24, signed up to the adult site five years ago to make “quick money” and began sharing topless photos and explicit video content, earning her an impressive $5000 in her first month alone. She soon climbed the ranks, becoming the top 1% of content creators on the platform, which brought her yearly earnings up to $100k.

But Sydney says her time on OnlyFans was plagued by a torrent of vile abuse, including death threats. She quit the platform in June this year after admitting it left her struggling with confidence and made her extremely wary of men.

The freelance writer and graphic designer, from Dallas, Texas, said: “It destroyed my mental health and self image completely. At the peak of my OnlyFans career, I was so worried about my body. I feel like girls, who are freshly 18 should be wary about getting into the industry. I have self esteem problems, I have body confidence issued. I feel that if I never got into the industry my life could be completely different – I would have confidence and not be afraid of men.”

Sydney, who had worked in the adult entertainment industry since she was 18, began her career on a site called Fancentro for one year before joining OnlyFans in October 2019. She added: “I joined Fancentro because I saw other people doing it and I thought it was quick money. I quit the site and took a break before someone reached out to me about OnlyFans and how they could manage me.”

In her first month, the 24-year-old raked in $5000, and made $10-15k in her best performing months. She said: “I never did porn, it was more risky content like bikini pictures, topless photos and some videos. My first month I made $5k and I kept at it, when the pandemic hit my earnings went up and up. In my highest month I made $10-15K and in my first year I made $100k.”

Sydney then fell pregnant with her first child at the height of her OnlyFans fame in May 2020. He was born on January 13, 2021, but tragically passed from unknown causes in February 2021. She told how men would sexualise her pregnancy and ask her to breastfeed them.

She said: “I posted my pregnancy on social media and continued to post on OnlyFans until I started showing. People were sexualising the fact I was pregnant, they were sexualising my baby – I was being asked by men to breast feed them.”

Sydney gave birth to a boy the following year in August 2022, but this time kept her pregnancy secret and stopped sharing details about it online. She said: “It completely destroyed my mental health and self completely. I was so body conscious – I was very skinny at the time. I feel like getting pregnant saved my life because I gained the weight I needed.”

She added that she would often be called a slut or a whore, and in some cases was told to kill herself. She explained: “Men would never come up to you in the street and say what they say to you online. I was often called a slut or a whore and would be told to kill myself. I have always gotten death threats – it was a normalised thing. Men would expect things for free and when I said no I would be called a worthless whore and told to end my life.”

Speaking about her decision to leave the site, Sydney said: “I didn’t have the time or energy to keep producing the content. OnlyFans has become so saturated, there were woman willing to do more online but I had boundaries. I hated being so sexual, I don’t want to be looked at as an object. When June came around I realised I wasn’t making enough money to do this to my mental health.”

The mum says she has since become “wary” of men following the vile abuse thrown at her online. She said: “I am extremely wary of men, it makes me feel like men are hard-wired to prey on us women. I was getting messages from girls asking me to block their boyfriend, I was being messaged by men with a wife and kids – it makes me have no trust in men.

“I am not bashing women who still work in the industry – I just decided that I couldn’t continue anymore.”

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