A former US soldier who once struggled to pay rent says a Porsche dealership refused to sell her a car after learning she makes her money on OnlyFans.
Melissa Herrera, 30, from El Paso, Texas, claims she offered a £77,000 cash deposit but was still turned away, despite now earning enough to buy supercars outright.
The mum-of-two, who goes by Solyluna online, says the rejection was a sharp reminder that stigma still follows her success.
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“I told them I’d put $50,000 down and they said no,” Melissa told NudeNewz.
“So I said, ‘What about $100,000?’ and they still said no.
“I was like, okay then, I guess it’s just going to sit here.”
Rather than argue, Melissa walked out and spent her money elsewhere, buying an Audi R8 and an Aston Martin Vantage instead.
Before the luxury cars and financial freedom, Melissa’s life looked very different.
She spent nine years in the US military, earning what she says was barely enough to survive while raising two children.
“You could barely pay rent, your car bill, and then having kids on top of that, it was not good,” she said.
“I honestly think I make more in benefits now than I did when I was actually in the military.”
Her service came with heavy personal loss.
Melissa married a fellow service member but says he struggled after leaving the military and later died, leaving her a widow.
“I became a widow,” she said simply.
After an injury ended her military career, she felt lost and unsure of her future.
A fellow veteran introduced her to OnlyFans, casually mentioning she made about $100 a month.
“Because we were prior service, we didn’t really know what good money was,” Melissa said.
She signed up but didn’t take it seriously at first, barely posting anything for months.
That changed when she met her fiancé, who encouraged her to fully commit.
What followed was relentless work.
At her peak, Melissa was running 24 TikTok accounts across three phones, posting up to eight times a day on each one.
“I had three phones with eight accounts each,” she said.
“I didn’t reuse content. Everything was made fresh on that account, with that sound.”
She would spend hours filming, learning dance trends and recording content back-to-back.
“I’d come out of the room sweating,” she said.
“It was literally a workout.”
The grind paid off.
Melissa built multiple accounts with hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of followers and says the money transformed her life.
She now owns an Audi R8, an Aston Martin Vantage and a Cadillac Escalade, all specially delivered to her city.
“There are only certain cars you can get where I live,” she said.
“So we requested the R8 and the Aston to be delivered.”
But despite her success, she says the Porsche dealership drew a line once they learned how she earned her income.
“They judged me based on what I do,” she said.
“That part definitely stung.”
Melissa says she’s also faced judgement from people closer to home, but it no longer bothers her.
“You can hate me all you want,” she said.
“As long as you’re not affecting my kids, my husband or my money, I don’t care.”
These days, her life is a far cry from military routines and financial stress.
She spends about an hour a day creating content and structures her time around her children.
“I don’t have to do anything except get up and take my kids to school,” she said.
“That’s the dream.”
And as for Porsche, Melissa says she has no regrets.
“They didn’t want my money,” she said.
“Other people were happy to take it.”
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