Sarah Juree’s life was turned upside down when she launched her OnlyFans account — and was promptly fired from her teaching job.
“Sometimes in life, you got to take your mess and turn it into a message and say, ‘OK, that was messed up.’ I was very suicidal. I really almost killed myself,” Juree, 44, shared exclusively with Us Weekly while promoting her new book, Diary of an OnlyFans Model.
Initially, Juree was “just a struggling single mom” and got the idea to launch her OnlyFans career as a way to make extra money on the side while raising her twins.
“There was a woman in town, and she had started a page, and she had made, like, $10,000 in a month,” Juree shared. “So in my mind, I was like, ‘Well, what if I try this on summer break and see how it goes?’ I had never been on the platform. Really didn’t know much, anything about it. I was like, ‘Well, if I could have two good months like that, I could pay my credit card debt off.’”
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Within weeks, Juree shared an NSFW photo which was promptly “dispersed” across social media and sent to her employer — allegedly resulting in her firing.
“It just happened really, really fast,” she claimed. “That was such a whirlwind. There was a lot of grief for me because I loved being a teacher. That was my identity, that was my career that I had put my life into. I was a teacher for 20 years. It was a whirlwind, and I think that was why I needed to kind of take a step back from OnlyFans. I took the last two years off to really just go and heal and process and sort, like, ‘What the heck happened?’”
While dealing with PTSD and suicidal ideation after the incident, Juree explained that she reached a point where she decided she “really [needed] help” and didn’t want to “keep living in this fight and flight anymore.” She turned to ketamine therapy as a way to heal and words began “pouring out” of her — resulting in her new book.
“I think it shows people your story is not over,” she said of her road to becoming an author. “You get to be the author of your story, literally. You get to show the world who you are, and at any given point in time, you can give this world a plot twist. So now it’s, like, ‘Teacher turned OnlyFans model turned author.’”
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In her own community, Juree noted that she still feels like an outsider — but she’s turning those feelings into empowerment.
“Where I am in Indiana, it’s like, I’m the scarlet letter of the town,” she said. “But I take it very personally, because I feel like I also get to be the permission slip for women in town. The women who want to explore their sexuality, who see me and I’m not backing down from this and I’m not just running away in shame.”
Diary of an OnlyFans Model is out now.
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