Porn star and former law student Ella Hughes, from Birmingham, has shot porn for the last four years after being bullied out of university and becoming a full-time sex worker.
Her career started in the UK during her first year at university, aged 19. Her student loan wasn’t going far, but because of the hours she had to put into studying, she found it hard to get a part-time job.
She started off just posting fully-clothed photos of herself online, but then started putting up lingerie shots after being approached by a porn company. Later, she progressed on to becoming a spanking model (it’s exactly what it sounds like) and then went into full videos.
Her first 20-minute clip got four million views – Ella looks back on the experience fondly.
“I loved it,” she says. “It was the best 20 minutes of my life. In my head I realized, ‘This is what I’m going to do, with my life.'”
Bullied out
But it wasn’t long before she was recognised by people in her lectures. She said that at first she carried on going to class, but the hate came from social media, with a group of men sending her online abuse and death threats.
“People start calling you names, they start threatening you, I got a lot of hate, even though they were watching the videos,” she explains in the Channel 5 documentary.
“To watch it and then judge somebody based on their actions, I think, is so snide.”
Her teachers would also comment on her side-hustle, telling her that ‘porn and law don’t mix’. She finished her degree at the Open University instead.
“I feel like I was being crushed more and more,” she tells the cameras.
“I decided for myself it wasn’t the best environment to be in.”
Now the 23-year-old is an award-winning porn star who earns up to £30,000 a month shooting adult movies.
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Most of her money is probably coming from escorting not porn.
Ya Karmafan, I don’t believe anybody doing porn in inglan is raking in £30K/month
I also don’t believe she is making $30K per month doing porn. She might be camming and making $10K or so of that but I agree that she is probably escorting at least a few days a month to get to that figure. I don’t see where escorting is a bad thing but let’s be honest about it here.
M Harris that is in £ so converted that’d be $37,800. Aint happening in porn
There’s also the more “innocent” explanation that she simply exaggerated how much she’s making.