A mum who spent years juggling three jobs says she was pushed into launching her own OnlyFans after discovering catfish accounts were making money impersonating her online.
Jordan Amanda, 41, had no social media presence at all before the pandemic – working as a server, bartender and in retail to make ends meet.
Stuck at home in lockdown, a friend persuaded the self-confessed “worker bee” to try TikTok – and everything changed.
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“It was an outlet I did not know I needed,” Jordan told NudeNewz.
“When you get older, you have a tendency to get stuck in a 9-to-5 lifestyle and you lose a little bit of yourself.
“I’m a mom and a wife, so I have to maintain being a mother, being a wife, maintaining a house – and you do get lost.
“TikTok gave me a creative outlet I did not have before – it was exhilarating.”
Her leap into cosplay came by accident, after viewers kept comparing her to a famous sitcom character.
She said: “People were telling me I look like Bernadette from Big Bang Theory – so I cosplayed her, and people liked it.
“Then I did Velma, and they liked that too – people started asking for more and I was like, this is so much fun.”
Her dice-roll cosplay transition videos became a trend of their own – with one racking up 15m views and her account closing in on 1m followers before it was banned.
Brand deals followed, but Jordan says the real push into adult content came from an unwelcome discovery: fake accounts were cashing in on her pictures.
She said: “I had a lot of people pretending to be me.
“People would come to me like, ‘hey, are you sending these messages and sending me these pictures?’ – and I’m like, that’s not even me.
“I don’t even have a butt – that girl has a huge butt!
“Other people were monetizing off of me, and I wanted people to not have to deal with the fakes.
“If they were trying to support me, I wanted to give them a platform where they could find me and get actual authentic stuff from me.”
Now the creator, who is known on Instagram as @jordan23amanda, runs a free OnlyFans page with pay-per-view character bundles – describing her racier content as “the dirt road” off the family-friendly highway of her TikTok and Instagram.
But despite the growing audience, Jordan – who lives in Missouri, US – says she is a mum first.
She does the school run, makes her 16-year-old son’s breakfast and lunch, shoots content between drop-off and pick-up, helps with homework and cooks dinner – then edits videos once he’s gone to bed.
She said: “Before, I was working three jobs – when he was at school, I would have to go to a bartending or serving job.
“This allows me to actually be at home with him at night and be present.
“That’s the best thing in my life – my son has a 3.9 grade point average and we want to maintain that.”
Working online has also spared her body – Jordan broke her back in a car accident at 17 when another driver ploughed into her stopped car at 60mph, and years of serving tables left her in constant pain.
Being a 41-year-old in an industry full of twenty-somethings brings its own pressures – and its own trolls.
She said: “I’m not competing with people in my prime – I’m competing with them in their prime, and I’m just trying to keep up.
“I think I have been commented on every little thing about my body that you could possibly be commented on – from my knees to my nose to my hair to my age.
“It will make you feel insecure, but you have to realise you’re worth yourself, be authentic and do what makes you happy.
“They’re just comments – they’re just people’s opinions.”
The strangest side of the job lives in her DMs – which she has largely stopped opening.
She said: “People ask for crazy things – they want your dirty underwear and stuff like that. I’m sure there’s a business for that, but I’m not really quite ready for it.
“The weirdest one was a guy who sent me a video of him in a brown diaper, doing his business – giving me straight eye contact and grunting.
“I was like, what is happening right now? I don’t think I want to answer these any more.”
Friends and family were stunned when they found out what the “mum next door” was doing – but her own mother has been her biggest cheerleader.
She said: “My mom’s just like, ‘heck yeah’.
“When I was younger, I was really down on myself – I would wear baggy clothes and hide my body.
“I think she’s happy that I’m not so scared to express myself any more.”
Looking ahead, Jordan dreams of launching her own cosplay fashion line – and being known for the thing she loves most.
She said: “I’ve always been a fashion person and I’ve always been into cosplay, so I would like to be known for that.
“Having my own cosplay line – how awesome would that be?
“You never know what the future holds. You just kind of got to keep on going.”
And content creation seems to run in the family – even her cat has his own TikTok account, with 11,000 followers.
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