A mum who makes adult content says her partner’s family banned her from their home after one of their relatives signed up to her OnlyFans – sparking a feud that saw her cut contact for almost two years.
Chantal swapped her job as a healthcare aide for life as a creator after falling pregnant during the Covid pandemic.
But when a distant relative of her partner turned out to be one of her paying fans, word got round the family and the fallout was brutal.
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Chantal says she was no longer welcome at their house, so she cut them off completely when her son was just one.
“One of them found out and it caused this whole drama,” said Chantal, who posts on Instagram @theonlycelestial_barbie.
“They refused to let me go over to their house anymore.
“I was like, ‘You know what? We’re just going to cut all contact.’
“My son was one at the time and we completely cut them out for almost two years.”
The 28-year-old says the backlash never came from her own family.
And eventually her partner’s relatives came round.
She said: “Finally they came around and were like, ‘OK, we’ll kind of see your point of view here.’
“I’ve been making it on my own without any help from them, so I feel like maybe that made them realise.
“But it was a lot of judgement, for sure.”
Before she started creating content, Chantal worked as a healthcare aide, which she describes as “basically a nursing assistant”.
Fresh out of training, she was earning around £10 an hour on casual shifts and only got called in when someone rang in sick.
When the pandemic hit and she found out she was expecting, she decided to walk away.
“Covid happened and it was just an absolute mess,” said Chantal.
“I had also gotten pregnant at the time, so I decided I’m not going to work in healthcare. It was way too messy.
“I do model as well and I noticed a lot of girls in the modelling industry were starting to do OnlyFans.
“It had become pretty big, so I was like, ‘You know what, I might as well just go full in and try to make some money.'”
Chantal, who has been creating for more than five years, describes herself as the “girl next door” type with an “innocent face”.
But she is in no doubt about what her fans pay for.
“My biggest seller is definitely my butt,” she said.
It all started when she posted a thirst trap showing off what she has always considered her best asset.
She said: “When I started posting a lot more of my butt, I got so many people in my DMs asking for requests, asking for more of this and more of that.
“I was like, ‘I can make money off of this. I don’t have to post this for free.'”
Asked about the best business decision she has ever made, her answer was simple.
She said: “Just posting more of my butt. My butt is really what started it.”
Her bum has since become her trademark in more ways than one, after she added a tattoo to it.
She said: “When I got a tattoo on my butt, that really brought a lot of people in as well.
“They’re always mentioning it. It’s kind of my brand.”
Chantal, who lives in Edmonton, Canada, says her career really took off after a shoot with a local photographer who she says has also worked with Playboy.
She now has around 3,500 fans and says TikTok has overtaken Instagram as the place where she wins them.
“On TikTok you’re posting more of yourself,” she said.
“You’re getting to hear my voice and see more of me in my everyday life, not just a picture.
“It creates more of that girl next door feeling. Like you could potentially run into me.”
But building an audience online has come with headaches, with her Instagram accounts repeatedly shut down.
She said: “Instagram really started it for me but I keep getting my accounts shut down, so I have to keep rebuilding.
“There are all these stupid guidelines they’re coming out with now. Meta’s doing this and they’re changing that and everyone’s reporting your stuff.
“It’s really frustrating when you’ve built up your page and you have all these followers.
“Then all of a sudden it’s like, nope, you’re shut down. You have to start all over again.”
Chantal says the industry has also become far more crowded since she started.
She said: “When I first started it wasn’t that well known. Only a few girls you’d run into would be on OnlyFans.
“Now it’s really oversaturated. Pretty much everyone you know is doing it.”
She runs her business alone after working with other people in the past didn’t pay off.
She said: “I hold myself to a high standard and I don’t really trust anyone else to follow what I want.
“I was getting feedback from fans saying ‘this really doesn’t seem like you’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, you’re right.’
“Once I started doing everything myself, it really skyrocketed me forward.”
She also made videos with her partner when she first started but says they never did as well as her solo content.
Now Chantal has her sights set on taking her content around the world.
She said: “I want to be able to travel to more places and make content in the places I travel to.
“I see a lot of girls doing that. They travel to all these places and make all this awesome content there.
“I really, really wish one day that I could do that as well.”
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