A teacher who was fired from her job after being found to be uploading adult content to an OnlyFans account has had the last laugh after claiming she now earns six times her former salary.
Sarah Juree, 41, lost her job as a teacher last June after her nude photos were found and sent to her employer, who ended up terminating her contract because of it.
Despite the stress of losing her 20-year career, Juree claims she has profited massively financially by trading in the classroom to do OnlyFans full-time.
She is doing so well in fact, that she claims she is earning six times as much as she had been before.
Juree, from Indiana, taught fifth-grade students about the different kinds of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers they could pursue as part of a government-funded youth program.
However, due to the financial crisis putting a squeeze on her finances, Juree decided to look at other ways she could supplement the income she got from teaching, including running exercise classes, a teeth whitening side hustle and designing T-shirts and mugs just to stay afloat.
After a day at work, she would come home to work on five side businesses but felt "constantly stretched and overwhelmed" and would cry in the bathtub in the evenings, leading her children to call her "sad mommy".
She told Insider that she had turned to the adult subscription site on the advice of a friend who was making $10,000 a month by selling explicit content.
Juree explained: "I became increasingly depressed because of the financial stress. Then inflation went sky high – gas prices skyrocketed, my grocery bills doubled and I became even more financially desperate.
"A friend started an OnlyFans page in April 2022 and told me she made $10,000 in one month. I decided to give it a go and started a page just to sell nudes on the side to supplement my teaching income."
She first began uploading during the summer vacation in June 2022, but it only took days for her adult content to be sent to her employer, who sent her a termination letter, which cut off her primary source of income.
However, despite losing her job, Juree believes it was a "catalyst for a new direction in life," adding: "I've since made my entire annual teaching salary in just six months. As a teacher I made $55,000 a year, but in the last six months I've earned over $58,000 through OnlyFans.
"The most I've made in a month is $17,000, which happened right after I got fired. Since I was laid off I've made a total of $75,000."
She did admit that her income "fluctuates" month to month, but she usually earns anywhere between $3,000 and $10,000 per month.
While many see OnlyFans as a get-rich-quick option, Juree admitted that she does have to work hard to earn her income and spends a lot of time marketing and promoting her OnlyFans page on social media sites to potential subscribers.
She has found that leaning into the 'teacher fantasy' as her USP has been lucrative for her, as well as selling explicit videos, nude photos, and video chats behind a paywall, and even sells her underwear to fans too.
Juree spends the majority of her day working on her OnlyFans business - be that shooting content or responding to messages - while her children are at school.
She explained: "Being an OnlyFans model has largely been a positive experience, but I got dragged by a lot of internet trolls who tried to humiliate and body shame me after I was fired. Some people would say I had cellulite or stretch marks, but I have worked hard at building up my confidence so I don't let them affect me.
"Getting fired was heartbreaking at first, but now I'm on the path to financial abundance."
