A 6ft 5ins tall woman is making the most of her height - after career switch from carer to OnlyFans and Babestation star. Amazonian Charlie once tried to hide her stature but now is embracing it.
And it has seen her go from scraping by making "ends meet" by working in a hospitality role to a financially "very stable" position after turning to the adult sites. And she says in one month she managed to accrue £60,000 just from the Only Fans site.
The 27-year-old told how she reached her 6ft 5ins height when she was just 14. But after years of trying to hide how tall she was she decided it was time to use it to her advantage, she told Teesside Live.
And now, rather than working 60 hours a week just to get by, she is a daytime TV presenter for Babestation. And she also has a lucrative OnlyFans account.
Charlie, originally from London but now living in Redcar and Cleveland, said: "I used to work within the hospitality area along with the carers. I used to do end-of-life care as well as hospitality just to attempt to make ends meet.
"Those [people] are very underpaid, very underworked, and very underappreciated. I woke up one day and realised I don't want to work 60 hours a week for the rest of my life completely underrated, underpaid, and exhausted - I was going nowhere fast.
"So I decided to make career out of something that I have always had, which is my height. My height is a niche - I've not actually met a female taller than me to be honest!"
Charlie said she regularly had comments and "unwanted attention" in her roles due to her height. She said people would take advantage of her due to her being bigger and stronger as she can "do certain things easier."
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Now working at Babestation during the day she will also sometimes take on night shifts which are less restricted, and will use her hands, feet, and legs as "all aspects of height" go into the role. She added: "I do private sales online so that is done through social media - one of which includes an OnlyFans account.
"I think the most that I have made solely from an OnlyFans account in one month off the top of my head was over £60,000. [My wage] fluctuates- people think that it is easy to do something like this.
"It's not easy - you have to be your own producer, you have to be your own advertiser, you have to make yourself stand out from the rest. The more effort you put into it the more you get out of it - the more money you put into it the more you get out of it. Everything has to be high-quality production."
Charlie used to holiday in Teesside when she was a child, saying she really "appreciates the beauty in the area." She said: "I like the northern people, I find them to be a lot more accommodating and friendly and down to earth so it seems like a no-brainer that I can go somewhere like Teesside and be able to walk my dog on the beach and be a part of my local community."
Charlie said there were some issues with her career choice. She said: "If I tend to go out on a night out I do have a protection officer with me because of the fact that there are people that recognise me - it is difficult not to, I'm 6ft 5! If I have heels on I'm almost 7ft tall!"
Charlie said she was "severely bullied" as a child and had to move schools three or four different times as a result. She said her height was once a sensitive subject, adding that she felt like the "odd one out" when with her friends.
She explained: "It was something I would always try to hide. I would slouch, I wouldn't be who I actually am. Now it's a very nice feeling to know that I make a substantial amount of money out of being different whereas back then to me it was something that I struggled with."
Charlie works alongside a small team and often has to travel to do her Babestation shifts, adding that her job is ultimately 24/7. Despite this, she still enjoys what she does: "I am not going to sit here and pretend it is what I have always wanted to do - the money is the attractive thing.
"Money makes the world go round, we all go to work and go to our job regardless of what that job is and I was going nowhere fast even though I was in a politically correct job that is deemed ok by society.
"I would have worked the rest of my life. I would have had barely any pension, I would have barely afforded to get on the property ladder or help out my friends and family.
Now I am in a very very stable position where I can pass that on through charity work and giving to charity and also my friends and family."
