Influencer Trisha Paytas is looking back on her past career in adult entertainment.
“Stripping was four to five years, and then, when OnlyFans came back again, I started a few years,” Paytas, 38, said on the Wednesday, October 28, episode of Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast. “I don’t want to sound judgy, but it’s more toward myself [and] it’s more toward young me. I’m, like, disgusted.”
Paytas posted explicit content on the subscription platform from 2020 to 2023.
“Yes, I still have an Onlyfans, but it’s just nudes and has been for a long time,” she wrote via X in 2023. “I don’t sell most of the explicit stuff anymore cause my views about it have changed since becoming a mom.”
Paytas, who shares three children with husband Moses Hacmon, now regrets sharing NSFW content publicly.
“I was just talking about this the other day. People were talking about body counts and how it doesn’t matter,” she told Shetty, 39, on Wednesday’s episode. “People say, ‘I’ve been with four people, I’ve been with 100 people.’ Someone who I trust, who was a really good friend of mine, and she’s like, ‘What’s yours?’”
After Paytas revealed that she slept with “thousands” of people, she admittedly felt judged.
“She was, like, shocked, and then I was, too. You really think about it and you’re like, ‘That’s really gross [and] that’s really disgusting,’” the content creator acknowledged. “I think I really just have low value in myself that I was taking any dollar amount to touch my body.”
As Paytas grew up, she became “more spiritual” and had a change of heart.
“It almost felt like getting this negative energy into me, almost, like, demonic energy,” she added. “I think that’s where I noticed a shift in myself and who I was. I used to be so happy-go-lucky, and the more I was doing that kind of work, the more negative I became. I hated it.”
While Paytas now finds sex work to be “disgusting,” she refuses to pass judgment on those involved in the industry.
“I don’t want to judge other people because you have to do what you have to do,” Paytas stated. “I did it out of desperation, I did it out [for] money. Like, I’m so disgusted with myself [that] I can’t sleep at night. … Especially lately, it’s been a little haunting.”
She continued, “If I help one person make the decision not to do what I did back then and [show] that there’s other ways, then it’s worth it.”
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