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New York Post
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Lucy Banks reveals the moment her son was told she did OnlyFans: 'Unfair'
A former OnlyFans star has shared the stomach-dropping moment her young son discovered her controversial career. Lucy Banks, 34, began creating explicit OnlyFans content in 2019, after she was newly divorced and seeking financial stability. She had a background in banking, but she wanted to find work where she wouldn't have to send her children to daycare every day. Speaking to Andrew Bucklow on podcast 'From The Newsroom,' Banks explained what prompted her to start creating X-rated content. 4 Lucy Banks, 34, began creating explicit OnlyFans content in 2019, after she was newly divorced and seeking financial stability. Instagram / @imlucybanks 'They were in daycare a lot. I had a moment one evening when one of my sons said to me, They're like, 'Do we have to go to daycare tomorrow?'' she said. 'It just broke me.' Banks explained that she made sure her face was hidden when she initially started creating explicit content, but as her following grew, so did her confidence. 'I became more and more comfortable, my content became more and more explicit, but it was at a pace that I was comfortable to do it,' she said. 'I was like, look, I know I can charge more if I make this content, so that's what I'm going to do.' At the height of her OnlyFans career, she was working 12-hour days, but even then, she was still able to balance work and time with her family. 'I'm happy to work hard. I just have to do it around the kids because that's my priority,' she said. 4 Banks explained that she made sure her face was hidden when she initially started creating explicit content, but as her following grew, so did her confidence. Instagram / @imlucybanks She was also earning a lot of money, making between $1 million and $1.5 million over four years. The downside to OnlyFans was that, as much as Banks tried to shield her children from it, her eldest son, who was around 11 at the time, found out. 'Somebody told him. I was so careful to make sure that they were shielded from everything,' she said. 'It wasn't fair that somebody else told him, but he was so cool about it. I had a conversation with him and he's like, 'it's fine'. People do worse things for money,' she said. 4 At the height of her OnlyFans career, she was working 12-hour days, yet she still managed to balance her work with time for her family. Instagram / @imlucybanks 'Then he started trying to talk to me about, he's like, 'Okay, so how, how much do you charge for your subscribers? Because if we increase your subscription price …'. I was like, 'Mate, no, I'm not having this conversation with you. '' Banks eventually ended up quitting OnlyFans because it got to a point where she just wasn't enjoying it anymore. 'I was at a new stage of my life and I just found myself resenting it and dreading making content,' she explained. 'I'm recognising that this isn't fun for me anymore, so it's time to stop.' The 34-year-old said it was a tough decision because essentially she was in 'golden handcuffs' as she had become accustomed to making a lot of money. 4 Banks eventually quit OnlyFans because it reached a point where she was no longer enjoying it. Instagram / @imlucybanks 'I've got property and mortgages that I have to keep servicing. So it was a hard decision, but it was the right one to make. And, honestly, I haven't regretted it,' she said. Banks pivoted, though, identifying a gap in the market and creating Million Billion Media, a marketing agency for OnlyFans creators. 'I never had, you know, a million followers on Instagram or anything like that, but at that time, I was the only OnlyFans creator that was leveraging the media and the news to get my name out there,' she said. The young mum wanted to help other OnlyFans creators do the same and build their brands. 'OnlyFans creators are quite similar to athletes really. It's like you've got this window where you've got a lot of eyes on you and you're making a lot of money,' Banks said. 'How are we going to set you up so that four or five years can help you for the next 10 to 20 years and build on that attention that you've got.'
News.com.au
30-04-2025
- Automotive
- News.com.au
‘Never forget': Anthony Albanese breaks silence on devastating ongoing impact of car crash in 2021
EXCLUSIVE Anthony Albanese has opened up about the life-changing impact of a car accident that occured five years ago revealing he suffers ongoing spinal issues. Mr Albanese's car was a write-off after a black Range Rover being driven by a 17-year-old P-plater in the wrong lane struck his Toyota Camry in early 2021. The Labor leader was taken to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown where it later emerged his condition was more 'complex' than originally thought. In an exclusive interview with Mr Albanese has revealed it had ongoing impacts that may surprise voters. 'It took me some time to recover physically and I still have damage to my spine,'' the Prime Minister told 'So I have difficulty sitting in a car for long distances.' The impact has been present during the election campaign, with Mr Albanese's office trying to avoid long car journeys where possible. When he's on the campaign plane, he has more freedom to move around and walk which helps his back issues. Listen to Samantha Maiden's exclusive interview with the PM on From The Newsroom podcast tomorrow. In today's episode, Samantha goes one-on-one with Peter Dutton. Mr Albanese said the moment he saw the car heading for him, he genuinely thought he was going to die. '(It) wasn't scary, it was just almost a matter of fact, this is how my life ends,'' he said. 'I will never forget the bang, the sound that was just so loud as it hit the front right hand side of. 'It was a bad accident. so an experience like that does have an impact. 'For me, it was how important life is. Each and every day and valuing it and making a difference to it as well. Mr Albanese was travelling on Hill Street in Marrickville when a Range Rover travelling in the wrong lane ploughed into his vehicle. 'All of a sudden, he was right in front of me and headed straight for me. I had a little millisecond to react,'' he later said. 'It was all a little bit of a blur for me afterwards, but people are saying they heard the sound of the whack two blocks away. Certainly from looking at my car, that's the case. 'I was just very lucky I had a guardian angel up there looking after me.' In the interview with he also reflected on the moment he teared up when he called the election when talking about his late mother Maryanne, a disability pensioner who struggled with arthritis. After the car accident, he ended up in the same hospital room his mum was taken to before she died in 2002. 'The only times I've been in it was with my mom when she went in, in 2002 after an aneurysm, and she never came out of Prince Alfred Hospital,'' he told 'She struggled on and fought for a couple of weeks, before she passed away. She was only 65 years old.' At the time of the accident, Mr Albanese said it 'just really hit home to me that I was leader of the Labor Party, the alternative prime minister at the time and I got the same care as my mum'. 'I do think that (Medicare) is part of the Australian story,'' he said. 'The two issues that really politicised me as a young man were housing. My mum lived in the one council house for all of her 65 years and they were gonna flog it off,'' he said. 'So we ran an anti-privatisation campaign. 'But also health because my mum was an invalid pensioner, who was crippled up with rheumatoid arthritis and then had other issues. 'She struggled to get the right care. She was a woman by herself. She was very generous, so would agree to go on trials of drugs and, uh, all, all of that. 'But she had a really tough life.' Mr Albanese said he surprised himself by tearing up in the press conference when he called the election. 'I walked out to that first press conference, not expecting to really talk about that in such a personal way.'
