A single mum who was bullied for wetting herself at school now sells her wet underwear on OnlyFans to pay her bills and provide for her family. Candie Dixon, 29, often wet herself in class thanks to a then undiagnosed kidney disease.
By the time her parents found out what was happening, Candie had scars in her bladder from infections and needed to have a kidney removed. She will be incontinent for the rest of her life but has found peace with wearing adult nappies and has found power in selling her underwear online, reports CornwallLive.
Candie said: "I thought my whole life I would live in a bubble where I would have to wear a nappy when I go out and be ashamed of them. I was bullied about it but my wet knickers are now the reason for me and the family and my children to be independent and have financial stability."
Candie was born with chronic kidney disease and started wetting herself at secondary school. Keeping it a secret, she suffered alone and the actual went undiagnosed for years. Candie said: "In school, I remember being nearly to the end of my class when I asked if I could go to the toilet because I couldn't hold it and they said no. I ended up having a full-blown accident which was noticeable to the whole of the class.
"It was extremely embarrassing and I ran out. the teachers knew but I didn't tell anyone and it was kind of brushed off. I didn't notice that I was leaking through the day. I would just leak and then when I was wet I would know that I'd had an accident.
"Obviously school for me was just awful. The kids used to call me all sorts of names. I ended up asking my mum to move schools and she put me into a private school which was just far worse, to the point that I was pushed to the limits."
Candie even hid the condition from her parents, putting wet underwear in the back of a drawer were her mum eventually found them. "She was very cross with me and I saw them all across my bedroom floor and there was a small argument, but then she realized it wasn't in my control and she dropped me to the doctors and we did loads of test."
She was later diagnosed with kidney disease, and her left one was failing. Weeks later she had her left kidney removed and her bladder was found to have scars from infections that were being caused by the disease.
After three school changes, the bullying became so bad that Candie would skip classes and started getting bad grades. "I then came out of school pregnant at 16 which was quite a shock and I skipped college. I genuinely believed I was going to end up in the system for the rest of my life. I had no qualifications and a child very young. I really wasn't in a good place."
Eventually, Candi started wearing nappies. "I was still called names and still had accidents," she said. "The only difference was that I had a bathroom pass so was never in that original situation again. But I'd still have days where my trousers were wet and people would be pointing and laughing at me even if nappies did really increase my confidence."
It was then that she started delving into modelling. "I realised that wetting yourself is actually quite a big niche in that world and I realised that this thing I was ashamed of could be turned into my own business. It was just an idea and I really didn't expect it to take off like it has."
Three years into starting an OnlyFans subscription, she is now off benefits and supports her family solely off that income. "I'm able to support my three kids completely off this income which is all I've ever wanted to do because a conventional job for me with the illness I have is very hard to hold down. I've worked in old people's homes and as a pot washer. I could sit for hours and tell people how many jobs I have had.
"Now working at home and having my own business is something I needed to be able to do to be independent. it's been a really big journey to get to this point but I'm proud of myself and my family backs me 100 per cent with this even though I was concerned about telling them what I do."
"I thought my whole life I would live in a bubble where I would have to wear a nappy when I go out and be ashamed of them but my wet knickers are now the reason for me and the family and my children to be independent and have financial stability.She said she's trolled on a daily basis by haters but that more and more women are seeing her as an inspiration. "I've had messages from women saying I have given them confidence to go out and buy adult nappies and wear them. I never thought I'd be able to do this for myself and for other people.
"If I wasn't doing this I would just be claiming off the system and there's a lot of trolls in that of itself with people who diss people who claim benefits. I'm now actually able to be independent and pay my own way and my children can have things they wouldn't have had before.
"I'm hoping when people read my story they will be inspired. Kidney disease is a massive thing that's not spoken about and especially in young women."
Candie's illness is incurable. Eventually her remaining kidney will fail and she will need to have a transplant.
"We need to normalise it. People shouldn't be ashamed about having wet knickers. I can now sell mine and people out there respect me and accept me for who I am. They want to actually buy the things I was hiding away from the world."
