(OPINION) Nala Ray, an Illinois-born pastor’s child turned OnlyFans model, left the adult industry after a come-to-Jesus moment led her to reconnect with her forgotten faith.
The content creator was working as an orthopedic surgery scheduler before a man recruited her for the online site in 2020, but despite her popularity as a top 1% earner on OnlyFans (OF), a subscription-based adult website, Nala had a change of heart.
“The ones who are glamorizing [this lifestyle] are men trying to run women’s lives and take a percentage out of it, and it’s horrifying. It’s truly horrifying to be a woman and have men take a percentage of you showing your body on the internet.
It’s just like having a pimp… It’s truly horrific that it’s being advertised in that manner, but it makes me want to fight all the more to help women understand that this is not where you want to go,” the influencer said.
She cited that her perspective continued to shift after being baptized.
“I can’t even tell you how much my life has changed since then. Everything in my life has just kind of come to this room where I can now observe it and then be like, OK, so I don’t really want to do this anymore. I knew that this isn’t what God wanted me to do with my life,” she said.
The content creator said that her current partner helped propel her towards change.
“Honestly, it was crazy. He’s actually a devout Christian, he started praying over me and sending me Bible verses and just being so loving in a way that wasn’t romantic,” she continued.
OF has blown up both in its number of creators and consumers since 2020, a reality Nala says is exacerbated by social media.
“It’s playing a really bad role for younger people because it’s just truly putting it up on a pedestal to make you think that you can have this amazing life,” she added.
While the majority of social media content surrounding OF advertises the potential earnings of its top 1% of creators, which generate 33% of the site’s total revenue, the median income for a model on the site averages to only $180 a month.
While her journey forged through a reconnection with Christ changed the young adult’s trajectory, the OF model’s website still remains with a single post, a matter she says is due to a delay in tax documentation.
“I posted a Christian video because I’m waiting on the tax documents and if I don’t have anything in there, they can completely delete the account while I’m waiting on the paperwork. But we’re deleting it, everything’s been wiped off of it,” she stated.
