Tyler Wilson, 26, had to move house and change her son’s school after her life as an OnlyFans model was exposed – she’s warning others to ‘think about how the videos will stay online forever’
A woman who claims to make £12,000 a month as an OnlyFans model says she’s been left “unemployable” – and has warned other single mums it’s “not all it’s cracked up to be” after having her car smashed up.
Tyler Wilson, 26, decided to turn to making explicit content after a car accident in 2019 left her unable to return to her full-time job as an estate agent. Within the first month she says she took her son, aged 10, to Disney World, after attracting fans who collectively paid £100 a day for her explicit photos.
But she soon found out about the “ugly” side of her new career when a clip of her speaking on a podcast went viral on TikTok, and she was “bombarded” with death threats, calls to the police and ‘judgement at the school gates’. Now, Tyler says she’s unable to go back to normal life after being left with “constant anxiety”, and is forced to live on her income from the adult website as she believes it’s her “only choice.”
Mum-of-one Tyler, from Manchester, said: “Within one week of my video going viral, I had the police called to my house multiple times, I had to take my son out of school and someone smashed up my car. I was very fragile and vulnerable [in the video] – I literally went on, thinking it would make me an extra £1,000.
“It was a heated debate with someone who was against OnlyFans – I was reacting to him with a lot of emotion and trauma. As soon as my account blew up, my entire family knew – and all the mums at the school gates had seen it.
“It’s technically left me unemployable – I could end up losing my job if an employer discovered my content. I’m stuck in a rut where every time I need an income boost, I’d have to go viral again, or do a collaboration with another creator – I don’t want to do that.”
In July 2019, Tyler’s previous career as an estate agent was turned on its head after a car accident left her with a broken collarbone, spine and ribs. She spent a month in hospital recovering, but continued to need surgeries on her broken bones until May 2022.
Despite trying to go back to the office regularly at first, Tyler says she found it “painful”, and switched to online-only work in estate agent management where she earned £800-a-month. She said: “I was so worried about having to leave my job – I was just in a position where I couldn’t really work. I couldn’t keep coming to work in a neck brace – it was crazy. It was like being stuck in limbo, the online job was OK money – but I needed additional income.”
Tyler says she didn’t know much about the website when she made the decision to sign up to OnlyFans in August 2022. At first she said she thought it would work like Facebook, where she’d be able to solicit business by messaging other accounts. Soon afterwards, she began earning large sums of money from the website. Then, in February 2023, while still on a “high” from her newfound income, Tyler agreed to go on a podcast, as she saw it as a good opportunity to get a few more subscribers. The premise was a debate about the website, and the video started to “blow up” just hours after being posted to TikTok.
Tyler was hit with an influx of trolling comments, including some telling her she was “ruining her son’s life”. Some even rang the police to report child abuse, and her son’s school reportedly asked her to avoid showing up outside the school at busy times. Tyler said: “The impact hit straight away – I spent ages replying to comments, when I should’ve ignored them. My son’s old school called me up pretty quickly to say they’d seen it – and I should probably avoid peak pick-up times in case any of the mums at the school gates kicked off.
“The police were called to my house so many times in just one week, following reports of ‘child abuse’ – it was a joke. I decided to stop actively posting on OnlyFans – but what’s on there is on there forever. And I’m still making an income from it – around £3-4k a week.”
The backlash generated from the viral clip eventually died down, but Tyler says she still feels the impact of the content being “unerasable” from the internet. She and her son have since moved house to stop the trolls from finding her address, and she has enrolled him at a new school.
Tyler now wants to warn other single mums not to be “tempted” by making extra income on OnlyFans – and worries that her son’s friends may start to find her content when they’re older. She said: “It is better than what I earned from my nine-to-five, but it’s more than passive income. In a moment of needing money, think about how the videos will likely stay online forever. It isn’t worth the anxiety.”
“It’s an active worry for me that when he reaches a certain age, my son or his friends will stumble across my content. We have a good relationship and I’d never lie to him if he asked me about it – but I really don’t want him to go looking for it. High school is looking like another hurdle – but I know I’m in a position to homeschool if it comes to it.”
