What turned a shy girl into Australia's 'most promiscuous woman' having sex with 600 men in a year? Bullies, an eating disorder and a shock classroom incident created a '£1m-a-year OnlyFans star'... but is all as it seems?

Annie Knight was among thousands of women whose beingness was irrevocably changed erstwhile OnlyFans exploded during the pandemic.

She was moving successful selling for a buying centre astatine the time, collecting a tiny wage and inactive surviving astatine home, erstwhile she was struck disconnected for posting lewd contented online.

Despite this setback, Annie is contiguous 1 of the astir palmy contented creators successful the world, bringing successful arsenic overmuch arsenic £1.2million a year, and the arrogant proprietor of 3 lavish homes crossed Australia worthy a combined £1.45 million.

Her secret? An incredibly candid nationalist beingness offering penetration into her satellite arsenic she embarks connected assorted intersexual challenges unimaginable for astir of america - and astatine times adjacent provoking comments she whitethorn person made it each up.

In her latest stunt, 'Australia's astir promiscuous woman' aims to slumber with 600 radical successful 2024 - a task she has painstakingly documented successful update videos aft hitting her people of 365 past year. 

But things person not ever been conscionable truthful for Annie. The 27-year-old besides says her occurrence has been built connected a troubled upbringing, being bullied astatine schoolhouse implicit her value and processing an eating upset earlier yet uncovering assurance successful however she looks.

Annie Knight made planetary headlines with her audacious bid to slumber with 600 men this year.

'It's conscionable go a situation for myself much than anything, and it's conscionable a spot of fun,' the Melbourne-based exemplary told The Edge past week, revealing she was inactive connected people with much than 400 caller notches connected the furniture posts and 4 months to go.

She says she is 'exhausted' astatine times and staggers her situation successful calculated sprints - sleeping with respective men successful 1 time earlier taking a play of rest.

'Some days I mightiness slumber with 5 radical and past the adjacent fewer days I won't slumber with anyone, due to the fact that I bash get tired, it is exhausting and immoderate days I don't privation sex,' she told Edge Breakfast. 

And to spot her implicit the decorativeness line, she admits she has dropped her standards astatine times - and introduced an exertion signifier to find anxious aides capable to assistance her successful her quest.

The exertion questions for Annie situation see modular details specified arsenic sanction and email address, arsenic good arsenic location.

But Annie's prospective partners are besides asked if they are consenting to beryllium tested for immoderate imaginable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) earlier doing the deed, demonstrating the model's committedness to wellness and safety.

It is not the archetypal clip the X-rated contented creator has gone supra and beyond to marque her sanction and rake successful a fortune, however.

Last year, Annie acceptable herself the arduous task of sleeping with 365 radical successful the abstraction of a twelvemonth - a task she said she fulfilled.

She has documented her challenges successful abbreviated videos shared connected societal media, branding herself 'that miss who tells brainsick stories'.

The stories are crazy. In May 2024, she posted connected Instagram to archer fans she was preparing for a caller idiosyncratic champion by sleeping with 7 radical successful 1 night, surpassing her grounds of six deed the nighttime before.

Not each judge them. Some fans started to question the chaotic stories she shares online aft she claimed she had slept with her Uber operator aft a nighttime retired successful June.

Followers flocked to the comments to telephone her retired for the claims. Annie told Daily Mail Australia her critics are lone jealous due to the fact that they 'lead specified boring lives'. 

'We were chatting the full mode until I got home. When we arrived astatine my home, we conscionable kept talking,' she said.

'He was getting requests connected his Uber happening and helium was conscionable declining them, which I don't adjacent cognize if you're allowed to bash that.

'Then 1 happening led to the different and earlier I knew it I was successful the backmost seat.'

Some believed she had simply recycled an 'old' story, writing: 'Hasn't this been posted before?' 

Despite the accusations, Annie stood steadfast and told Daily Mail Australia she has ne'er lied astir the enactment stories she posts online. 

Annie is candid, often vulgar successful her telling of events, but has won a ample assemblage from her openness successful sharing a reasonably unsocial position connected sex.

Things were not ever this way. Annie told realestate.com.au that she had to support her broadside hustle 'on the down low' erstwhile she started successful 2020, during the pandemic.

It was her bid to get connected the spot ladder that drove her towards OnlyFans - arsenic fanciful stories emerged of women getting unimaginably affluent overnight.

The lockdowns gave millions clip - and, vitally, wealth they weren't spending retired - to experimentation with the site, and betwixt 2019 and 2020 alone, OnlyFans saw a hike successful users from 13.5 cardinal to 82.3 million.

At the time, Annie - who erstwhile dreamed of being a encephalon surgeon - was earning $60,000 AUS (£30,000) successful her selling occupation and inactive surviving astatine home.

She said she recovered the occupation 'depressing' and said she 'hated being told what to do'. 

'Even erstwhile I was successful schoolhouse I said I wanted to beryllium my ain boss. Sure enough, erstwhile I went into the firm satellite I was conscionable truthful depressed. There were truthful galore rules and restrictions,' she told realestate.com.au

'When I near I had truthful overmuch freedom, not conscionable financially, but to beryllium capable to question whenever I wanted and beryllium successful power of however overmuch I could earn.'

Annie said her imagination was to determination retired and bargain her ain spot - but 'with each twelvemonth that went past houses got much costly and it became harder and harder to scope that goal'.

OnlyFans changed everything. Annie said her monthly net climbed from $10,000 AUS (£5,108) to $200,000 (£102,000) aft she went public.

$2.4million for the full twelvemonth works retired astir £1.23million. 

In 2023, Annie bought and renovated a beauteous three-bedroom location connected Australia's Gold Coast that acceptable her backmost $750,000 (£384,000).

And astatine the commencement of this year, she was capable to bargain a 2nd spot - different three-bedroom location worthy $695,000 (£355,000) to beryllium rented retired arsenic an concern property.

She past made the 'best impulse bargain ever' erstwhile she spent $1.4million connected a stylish Queensland property. 

In a caller TikTok video, she showed she had paid $592,122.30 AUS successful taxation (£303,000) - much than galore encephalon surgeons successful Australia, paid astir $600,000.

Annie is cautious with her money, she insists, telling Yahoo Lifestyle that she hopes anyone inspired by her travel would debar 'blowing' the wealth connected 'things similar luxury bags and superficial items'.

'You never cognize erstwhile the wealth is going to halt rolling successful truthful it's important that you commencement redeeming from the beginning.'

Annie has dealt with fame and luck well. But her manner was radically antithetic from what she had known before.

She revealed earlier this twelvemonth that she had never had 'much of a dating life' successful the past.

'I utilized to spell connected astir 3 dates a year, truthful that's wherefore I privation to bash this,' she said of her challenge. 

'I've ne'er been overmuch of a dater, truthful I wanted to springiness myself an inducement and americium holding myself accountable by posting the reviews of the dates online.

Growing up, Annie had battled issues with her self-confidence and assemblage representation aft being subjected to a cruel exam successful secondary school, aged 11.

'I was already rather depressed from being severely bullied,' she told the Star. 'For immoderate crushed the teacher weighed us, and had america enactment up from lightest to heaviest. 

'I was the 2nd heaviest successful the class.'

Ashamed, she said she chopped her meals successful fractional and began rapidly losing weight.

'My household were disquieted due to the fact that I was truthful sick. But the kids astatine schoolhouse wanted to beryllium friends with maine due to the fact that I was abruptly thin.'

The cruelty of different children enactment Annie connected a way of intermittent relapse and betterment arsenic she 'stressed' implicit her weight.

Annie said she suffered from an eating upset for 12 years earlier learning to power her illness.

When she started OnlyFans successful 2020, things turned around. People started complimenting her, and she became much affirmative astir however she looked. 

'Even though I was 10 kilos heavier than astatine the tallness of my eating disorder, abruptly I was getting messages from strangers online telling maine however beauteous I look, that I americium perfect!' she said.

At archetypal I didn't judge it, but past I watched my videos back, and was similar 'Hey, I really look truly good.'

'I conscionable consciousness truthful empowered and realise however unsocial we each are.' 

Now, she realises 'my value doesn't bespeak thing astir my quality and worth arsenic an individual.

'I privation I could spell backmost and archer young Annie that, to prevention myself and loved ones a batch of heartache.'

She added she hopes to interruption the stigma astir women enjoying casual sex.

'I virtually behave the aforesaid mode arsenic a batch of men retired determination successful the world, but I'm judged for what I do. It's ridiculous,' added Annie.

Annie's parents cognize what she does for enactment and basal by her.

She told the Star her parent messages regular to accidental however arrogant she is of Annie for surviving 'authentically and not caring what anyone thinks'.

She said her begetter was shocked to find out, but that an honorable speech cleared things up and 'he was good with it, he's precise supportive'. 

Annie lives a beingness contiguous she could ne'er person dreamed of conscionable 4 years ago. Beyond the houses, the wealth and brushing shoulders with Aussie elites astatine prestigious events, she is gladsome to beryllium assured and steadfast with the backing of her parents.

Selling contented online has proved a lifeline for thousands of radical turning distant from the monotony of a nine-til-five each year. For some, it works - and models study being blessed with their caller lives.

But experiences alteration widely. Others, graduating from sharing bikini photos with friends connected Instagram to selling porn online, accidental they inactive consciousness 'traumatised' by 'the astir miserable years of my life'.

One pistillate told Business Insider that contempt the immense sums of money, they felt objectified, alienated household and friends, and spent hours curating a cautious façade for subscribers astir a relentless schedule.

Psychologists accidental creating sexually explicit contented could permission radical feeling lonelier and more apt to endure intelligence wellness issues. A fashionable Twitch streamer spoke retired connected his OnlyFans past successful August, saying helium had considered taking his ain beingness aft getting progressive successful making videos portion successful a acheronian place. 

And children arsenic young arsenic 13 person reported being 'depressed and suicidal' aft photos of their parents circulated the schoolhouse yard.

Selling explicit contented online remains a divisive issue, with galore similar Annie empowered to unrecorded richer lives by uncovering originative niches successful the market. But for others, luck comes astatine the disbursal of thing acold much important.

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