A science teacher sacked for putting X-rated photos on an OnlyFans page is now making thousands through the site.
Sarah Juree, 40, taught primary school age children science with Starbase, a collaboration between the US Defence Department and schools.
The university educated single mum, from Indiana in the US, decided to start an OnlyFans page on the side after struggling to make ends meet on her regular salary.
However, her OnlyFans work was exposed by a local journalist and she was sacked from her teaching job, The Daily Star reports.
She used the opportunity to turn her side-hustle into a main job and hasn't looked back. She even says her OnlyFans work has "empowered" her, as it puts her in control of her own sexuality.
When she launched her OnlyFans page, Sarah’s intent wasn’t to "be a deviant" or a bad teacher or to influence kids in any negative way, she says.
“I had a job where I was using my intelligence,” she told Alex Burket’s Rise To The Challenge podcast, “but I was living in a poverty cycle.
“However, as a woman I can take my clothes off and make five to eight times what I was making as a teacher simply because I have a body…”
She says being a former teacher has gone down well with her followers.
Sarah said: "I thought when I started OnlyFans I was going to be in the MILF niche but then when the teacher stuff happened I was like oh my God, this teacher fantasy is a real thing”.
Sarah's OnlyFans page was exposed by a journalist from Real News Michiana in an online article titled: 'Local teacher has porn site on side, has kids call her by nickname she uses on porn site.'
According to the article, Sarah was known by the nickname “Buttercup” while working with students at Starbase, and her OnlyFans username was “Buttercup1981.”
The article came to the attention of Starbase officials, who sacked the popular teacher on June 27 this year.
They wrote: “These photos pose a real and immediate risk of harm to the reputation or business dealings of Starbase Indiana, Inc. up to and including the loss of schools, donors, community partners and our contract to operate with the State National Guard”.
Sarah remains upbeat, however, and says she's now in charge of her own narrative.
“I’m determined to have a happy ending for myself. I will not give power to other people to write my story for me because I am the author of my story and my story’s not over," she said.
Sarah added: “There’s a lot of goodness that I have left to give to the world”.
She says that while working as a teacher exposed her to regular threats of sexual assault, OnlyFans has empowered her, and women like her, to take ownership of their own sexuality.
“Onlyfans has also created an empowering platform for women to create an unlimited financial income for themselves,” she says.
“Unlike being exploited on dating sites and being used for my images and targeted as an easy woman to take on a date and get free sex, I am now part of the energy exchange. I am now empowered.”
And she’s looking after number one too, saying that regular gym visits help boost her mental health and that she’s working hard to ensure a prosperous future for herself and her little girl: “My daughter wrote on a dollar bill ‘millionaire mama’ and I keep that dollar bill,” Sarah says.
“I just know that that’s going to manifest for me … someday.”
