Keily Blair, a mother of two who combines caring for her children with a lucrative career as a CEO, could easily pass as the ultimate inspiration for many women around the world.
The former lawyer turned CEO of adult content site OnlyFans, 42, has seen her career rocket to new levels, advocating for women’s ‘choice’ over their bodies, jobs and how they decide to make money since she took on the role last year.
The mother of two advocates for women’s ‘choice’ over their bodies, jobs and how they decide to make money[/caption]
In recent months there have been some OnlyFans content creators who have caused controversy with their videos, including Bonnie Blue who has fucked over 150 freshmen[/caption]
OnlyFans model Lily was left traumatized by her experience after sleeping 101 men in one day – but now wants to sleep with 1,000 men in 24 hours[/caption]
But while the porn-friendly platform is often portrayed as a feminist site where women can get rich and gain sexual agency, OnlyFans is also home to “dangerous” sex stunts that endanger vulnerable women.
One of the most infamous cases sent shockwaves around the world when Lily Phillips, 23, bedded 101 men in just one day – and is now on a mission to fuck an astronomical 1,000 fans in 24 hours.
After the ordeal, which was also shared on YouTube documentary called I slept with 100 men in one day, Lily showed up traumatized – a young woman holding back tears and said she didn’t think she would recommend the darn challenge to anyone.
The controversial stunt drew criticism from other OnlyFans stars, who called it a form of “self-harm” and argued that it “sends a message” to other creators that “pushing yourself to dangerous extremes is normal.” reported DailyMail.
Life in the sex industry is in stark contrast to that of Blair in the corporate world, who went from a London-based partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP – specializing in cyber, privacy and security – to an executive at her former client, OnlyFans .
The mother of two says women have ‘choice’ over their own lives, recently speaking in an interview: ‘I fundamentally believe that people should be able to make choices about what they do.
“I think as a society, and especially as women, we’ve had a lot of people telling us what we can do, with our bodies, with our jobs, with our money, with our lives. I have no interest in that.”
Born and raised in Dublin, IrelandBlair moved to Britain to study law and politics at Oxford Brookes University before qualifying as a lawyer in 2007.
As a cybersecurity and privacy expert, she worked in her early career at PwC and law firms Forsters and Allen & Overy.
From then on, her life really took off, when Blair was the first winner of the Spiring Women in Law Awards in 2016 – before courageously opening up about the struggle of balancing motherhood with daughters with successful but demanding careers.
“There are things that have happened to me that are probably unique because I’m a woman,” she said.
”I remember coming back from maternity leave and I remember a project being discussed that would involve international travel.
“There was an automatic assumption that I wouldn’t want to go.”
She added: “I remember going into the managing partner’s office and sitting down and saying, ‘This may be out of kindness, but do you realize that you have just excluded me from a very interesting job because I have just come back from maternity leave because you think I don’t want to spend time without my baby.”
In January 2020, Blair joined Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, a London law firm, where she headed the firm’s cyber, privacy and data innovation practice – whose clients include the controversial OnlyFans site.
After becoming the company’s Chief Strategy and Operations Officer, Blair was promoted to CEO in July 2023.
What is OnlyFans?
OnlyFans is a subscription content service based in London.
It is believed to have more than 220 million registered users and more than three million content creators by 2023.
Sex workers charge monthly fees for access to photos, videos and more.
While popular for porn, the site isn’t designed solely with that in mind: anyone who wants to build a fan base and charge money for it can set one up.
Celebrities like Katie Price and Kerry Katona are popular personalities on the platform.
“Whether you upload tutorials, tips, behind-the-scenes footage, or just endless selfies, many of your followers would be willing to pay for it,” the company says.
For every subscription sold to a viewer, artists get 80 percent of the money, while OnlyFans gets the rest.
It is not limited to adult content as it has become popular among physical fitness experts and musicians.
She succeeded Amrapali “Ami” Gan, who stepped down after two years in the role to pursue new endeavors, OnlyFans said at the time.
When she landed the position, Blair emphasized the importance of “choice” for the site’s creators, saying, “OnlyFans only succeeds when its creators succeed.
“Our mission is to make OnlyFans the platform of choice for a wide range of creators and fans around the world.
“I will continue to put our creators at the heart of every business decision and provide them with an inclusive, safe and innovative platform to connect with their fans and monetize their content.”
Speaking to Fortune about her decision to leave a “professional background”, the mother of two said she was prepared to receive a “negative response” – but described the site as a “British tech success story ‘.
Blair, who claimed the platform’s top priority was providing safety to OnlyFans users, said: “Everyone assumes it’s sexy content.
‘Some of it contains sexy content and we are very happy with that. We are an inclusive platform, and for good reason.
“We think it’s really important that adult content creators have a safe space, can generate income, and can also do that together with other content creators.”
However, there are some high-profile OnlyFans stars who have been victims of sick and terrifying death threats.
They include Bonnie Blue, who became an overnight sensation after she bragged about sleeping with “barely legal 18-year-olds”, revealed she receives 300 death threats a day from women and was told she would ‘end up in a box’ after her. sick sex marathons.
Former glamor model Katie Price is one of the millions of OnlyFans content creators[/caption]
Former UFC star Paige VanZant also makes a fortune on OnlyFans[/caption]
The 25-year-old, who worked a normal office job before quitting to bang 158 freshers, said she rakes in a whopping £750,000 a month, including posting X-rated content to her OnlyFans account.
Earlier this year, the blonde planned to travel to Australia for a free sex marathon with teenage school dropouts, who had to consent to her posting the explicit content online.
But Bonnie – who had a very middle-class upbringing – was forced to contact police after receiving vicious death threats on social media, leaving her fearing for her life.
“I must receive 200 to 300 death threats every day,” she told The Sun.
“The one I got this morning was like, “When you arrive in Surfers Paradise [in Australia]you leave in a box. You have to kill yourself before we have to kill you.”
‘Wishing someone dead and wishing him harm? That’s a bad person, not me,’ said the young star,
From December 2021 to June 2023, the British company saw its global user base increase to over a whopping 220 million fans and over an astronomical 3 million creators.
The site relies solely on subscriptions, pay-per-view events, or tips for its online creators, with a large portion of its content creators specializing in adult content.
Despite her enormous success, Blair has experienced negative reactions since becoming CEO, including a bank rejecting her as a personal account customer due to her ties to OnlyFans.
“I was an equity partner at a law firm, one of the few women who was an equity partner, and I had a team of people working for me,” she told the FT.
“That attitude used to really want my company. Nothing has changed about me, nothing about my risk profile.”
Financial institutions, fearful of facilitating financial transactions for illegal sex work or crimes such as sex trafficking, often rejected transactions associated with such platforms.
