A former OnlyFans model who made $100,000 a year on the adult site admitted that men would “sexualize” her pregnancy and ruin her self-esteem.
Sydney Ruiz, 24, started sharing raunchy snaps of herself topless and in a bikini, as well as explicit video content, five years ago to make a “quick buck.”
The brunette beauty from Dallas, Texas made $5,000 in her first month and quickly rose to the top ranks of content creators – earning six figures a year.
However, her dream of living a lavish life by posting sensual content turned into a nightmare after she received an overwhelming amount of death threats and abuse, especially when she became pregnant.
After receiving messages from men asking her to “breastfeed them,” Sydney finally decided in June that she had had enough and left the adult industry behind.
A former OnlyFans model who made $100,000 a year on the site admitted it ‘ruined’ her life – and left her feeling ‘wary’ of men
At the height of her OnlyFans career in May 2020, Sydney became pregnant with her first child.
She gave birth to a baby boy in January 2021, but he sadly died just a month later from unknown causes.
Sydney admitted that her continued career on OnlyFans while she was pregnant made her extremely uncomfortable, saying men would even sexualize her pregnancy.
She said: ‘I posted my pregnancy on social media and kept posting on OnlyFans until I started showing.
‘People sexualised the fact that I was pregnant, they sexualised my baby – men asked me to breastfeed them.’
In November 2021, Sydney found out she was expecting her second child and gave birth to him in August 2022.
This time, Sydney decided to keep her pregnancy a secret and stopped posting online.
Sydney said: ‘It has completely destroyed my mental health and myself. I was so body conscious – I was very skinny at the time.
Sydney Ruiz, 24, started sharing raunchy photos of herself topless and in a bikini, as well as explicit video content, five years ago to make a ‘quick buck’
The brunette beauty from Dallas, Texas made $5,000 in her first month and quickly rose to the top ranks of content creators – making six figures a year
‘I feel like getting pregnant saved my life because I gained the weight I needed.’
Sydney confessed that everything on the app was “hypersexualized” and was often referred to as a sl*t or aw***e.
She admitted that she struggled with her self-confidence as a result.
Sydney admitted: ‘It completely destroyed my mental health and self-esteem. At the height of my OnlyFans career, I worried so much about my body.
“I feel like girls who have just turned 18 have to be careful when they come into the industry. I have self-esteem issues, I have body confidence issues.
‘I feel like if I never worked in the industry my life could be very different. I would be confident and not afraid of men.’
Sydney was 18 years old when she started working in the adult entertainment industry.
She worked on a site called Fancentro for a year before joining OnlyFans in October 2019.
Sydney added: “I joined Fancentro because I saw other people doing it and I thought it was a quick buck.
However, her dream of living a lavish life by posting sensual films turned into a nightmare after she received an overwhelming amount of death threats and abuse.
‘I left the site and took a break before anyone contacted me about OnlyFans and how they could manage me.’
In her first month, Sydney brought home $5,000, while at her peak she made as much as $10,000 to $15,000.
The Texas-based creator said: “I never did porn, it was more risque content like bikini pics, topless pics and some videos.
“My first month I made $5,000 and I kept at it, then when the pandemic hit my earnings kept going up.
“My top month I made $10,000 to $15,000 and in my first year I made $100,000.”
She hit back at the men who criticized her online.
She said: ‘Men would never come up to you on the street and say what they say to you online.
In June, Sydney finally decided she had had enough and left the risky industry behind, confessing that she has struggled with her self-confidence ever since.
In June 2024, Sydney decided to leave the adult entertainment site for good
‘I was often called a sl*t or aw***e and told to commit suicide. I’ve always received death threats; it was something normal.
“Men expected things for free and if I said no, I was called a worthless woman and told to end my life.”
On her decision to leave the industry, Sydney explained that she “hated” being so sexual and didn’t want to be viewed as an object anymore.
She said, “I didn’t have the time or energy to keep producing the content. OnlyFans has become so saturated that there were women who wanted to do more online, but I had limits.
‘I hated being so sexual, I didn’t want to be seen as an object. When June came, I realized I wasn’t making enough money to do this for my mental health.”
Since leaving the site, Sydney said she had become “wary” of men because of the abuse she experienced online.
She said: ‘I’m extremely wary of men, it makes me feel like men are determined to prey on us women.
‘I got messages from girls asking me to block their boyfriends, I got messages from men with wives and children – it made me lose my trust in men.
“I’m not bashing women who are still in the industry, I just decided I couldn’t continue.”