I’m a mum who makes challenging videos, I retired at 30 and still rake in £4 MILLION a year
A MOTHER-OF-TWO revealed how she went from a minimum wage job to earning £8,000 a month.
Emily Kathleen, 30, earned £19,000 a year working in administration but quit during the pandemic to become a webcam model.
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The career change saw her go from ‘practically homeless’ to raking in thousands a month by taking part in provocative video chats with men.
Her experience led her to start her own cam girl agency, which has become so successful that she has stopped doing her own cam work altogether.
High Society Models employs 983 webcam models whose work rakes in £4million in annual revenue – and has won two agency awards.
Her models participate in live chats, including strip teasing and kinky conversations, and Emily gets up to 15% off their earnings every month.
Her goal is to support and empower women who work as cam girls, provide them with financial support and break the stigma surrounding the industry.
“I really miss camming, but I’m so busy running the agency now that I don’t have time anymore,” says Emily, who took to the webcam for the last time before retiring in June.
“I’d rather do this and help other women become financially independent than do camming myself.
“This job is definitely not for the weak; I am a workaholic and have never had a day off.
“People say webcamming is disgusting, but I pay more in taxes than my annual salary when I worked in administration.”
Emily, who lives with her children and fiancé Jake Proctor, 32, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, did her first webcam job in 2020 after signing up with a camgirl agency to bring in some extra cash.
She had previously worked for a housing association and was eventually signed off due to stress, meaning she struggled to pay her rent.
She said she became ‘practically homeless’ until she was offered £400 for one evening of webcamming – and eventually started doing webcam work full-time.
Emily logged into her laptop every day to ‘entertain’ clients from her bedroom via a live web link.
This includes everything from performing stripteases to flirting and just chatting with them.
Women are sexualized by men anyway, people just get mad that we found a way to get paid for it.
Emily Kathleen
Her hours varied from week to week, but Emily worked between 20 and 30 hours a week webcamming.
“I had nothing to lose, so I thought I’d give webcam modeling a try,” she said.
“It was scary to quit my job, but I found something I love to do.
“I would undress and have fun with them when I felt comfortable. I would talk to them, flirt and just laugh.
“Men are there to talk to a real person, otherwise they might start watching porn.”
Emily’s love for the industry led her to found High Society Models in 2021: a female-run modeling agency offering webcamming and adult services.
She continued camming for a while, but the business took off and running the business became her full-time job.
Emily now employs approximately 983 models, as well as more than 70 admin team members.
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“We had our highest week on December 2, spending £98,258.95 on our models in a week,” Emily said.
She attributes the agency’s growing success to creating a strong work system for its models, giving them a sense of autonomy in an industry that largely caters to men.
Emily offers a fair pay cut, on-demand payments, mental health support, and parties and events for models.
The agency won two awards in 2024 for its success: Snap Awards Webcam Agency Of The Year and UK Glamor Awards Agency Of the Year.
“A lot of agencies are run by people who don’t care about the models,” she said.
“With us, models can access their money whenever they want, they don’t have to wait until payday.
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‘I know what it’s like to need that money to pay your gas meter – I lived paycheck to paycheck in a council flat.
“The fact that I ever went on camera changed my life.”
Emily says she also wants to destigmatize webcam work and empower women to do work they enjoy.
“The most important thing for me is that they feel comfortable and empowered by what they are doing,” she said.
“We have women of all shapes and sizes – one of our biggest earners is a size 20 girl.
“I want to help women gain confidence and live a better quality of life by finding the same financial freedom I did.
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“The stigma is there, but we’re not porn stars, we’re just normal women you meet at Lidl trying to make a living.
‘People say it’s disgusting, but would you rather I was a stay-at-home mum claiming benefits, or paying taxes back into the system?
“I have helped so many other women get off benefits and pay back into the system.”
“Because of the stigma, I think people like to forget that it is a supply and demand job,” she added.
‘Women are sexualized by men anyway.
“People just get mad that we found a way to get paid for it.”
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