A mum who earns £4,000 a month on OnlyFans said her village's locals are trying to shut her down because their husbands might see the content.
Laura Whyte, 29, says she has seen a massive boost in her income after living off her £35-a-week benefit payment to bringing in four grand a month on the online platform. However, it's not been easy sailing for Laura who says she has recieved negative attention from the residents of her village.
She claims that people have anonymously sent her messages, including a threat to call the police. The mum-of-two, who lives in tiny Aberchirder, Aberdeenshire, says others have threatened to call social services unless she takes down her content.
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Laura said: “My partner would ask, ‘Why are you getting so upset’. But it’s intimidating – it just makes you get worried to go outside. A lot [of the messages] are women saying they don’t want their husbands finding my page."
Laura claims she began receiving messages in March 2022, around six months after she started the account. She noticed the messages started around the same time as people that she knew had viewed her Instagram story - where she advertised her OnlyFans content.
According to Laura, one of the messages threatened to call the police if she didn't take down the content within 24 hours because it was "pornography". Others appeared to come from other women in the village who said that if their partners found her account, there would be "problems".
“It was fine for the first few months when nobody knew about it in the village,” said Laura.
“When [locals] started to view my Instagram account, I started getting messages from fake accounts saying they were going to report me to the police, HMRC, and social services. I would get messages saying I had 24 hours to take all my posts down or they would call the police as it was pornography.
“Somebody said they would contact HMRC and the DWP within 24 hours, one said they were going to be contacting social services to make sure it’s acceptable to be doing ‘that kind of job’ while having children. One said they had already called the police three times.
“I’ve not a clue who’s sending them, there’s so many people who speak about it that it would be too many people to accuse. I’ve been living in the village for eight years and now it feels like everyone hates me.
“I recently had a message on Twitter saying they were seeing me walking around the village and could see what clothes I wear. I wear baggy clothes, I’m not showing off or anything to get the hate I get."
Despite the threatening messages, Laura says she won't back down.
“I’ll never take the messages in a literal sense, it’s probably to try and put me off - I just ignore them, I don’t even let them know I’ve read it," she said.
“I have over 1,000 subscribers. You get to feel a bit more confident in yourself and my partner says it’s made me more confident and I’m not so depressed with myself. I’ve saved up to get breast enlargements which has made me feel more comfortable in my body and we’ve been able to do things we would have never been able to do before.
“I put the money in savings so it’s not just being spent on rubbish – now that I’ve got my social media started again I’m making £3,500 to £4,000 a month. Before, I was only getting child benefit of £35 week and was trying do better for my family to put a deposit down on a house. Now, we’re looking to buy a house in the next year or so.”
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