Rebecca Goodwin spent more than a month feeding her two daughters with six bags of food. Canned soup, precooked rice, and little else.
She was 28, lived in Mansfield, Derbyshire, and couldn’t work: with a baby at home, she couldn’t afford childcare. She couldn’t afford electricity or gas either. As she said, she couldn’t even afford formula for her youngest. Each voucher provided enough food for five days, and when she asked for a third, she was told social services might get involved. She was also 15.000 pounds in debt and had a poor credit history.
In April 2019, desperate, she opened an OnlyFans account, knowing it was a risk. She said she earned 1.600 pounds in just 10 days. After that, she was making around 10.000 a month, and today she says she earns between 60.000 and 100.000. She says she paid cash for a four-bedroom house costing 230.000 pounds and a Porsche costing 45.000. She works from home, whenever she wants. Her older daughter knows what she does, and it doesn’t bother her.
She also launched an initiative, buying properties outright (without mortgages) to rent them at prices far below market rates to low-income families and people referred by temporary accommodation services or food banks. “I’m not doing it just for the money, but to offer a roof to those who are in the situation I was once in”.
