The former Disney actress recently said, “Porn pays better than Disney.” Maitland Ward, formerly known to be a star in Disney’s “Boy Meets World,” said that she makes more money in the kind of entertainment she is right now, the adult industry.
Now 42 years old, she told during an interview that she was nominated for two adult video news awards. It is similar to Academy Awards but for adult contents. Her nominations are the best three-way sex scene and best-supporting actress.
She says she laugh it off when people gets shock or amazed on what she is doing now, “When people say, ‘She had to turn to porn,’ I laugh because this is a good thing and I’m making more now, If you talked to my younger, more virginal soap-opera self, I never would have seen this coming out of me.”
Ward played as Rachel McGuire during the Boy Meets World. After it ended, she had a career transition by chance. She did some parts in Hollywood before she moved to New York and Los Angeles to study theater.
In 2013, she got a big break during a comic convention while dressing up as a sexy cosplay character. She posted a photo of her in her social media.
She exclaimed, “I had a publicist who was like, ‘Stop putting up sexy pictures. They will not hire you for anything if you do that. Once you get past 30, 35, they don’t hire you for doing sexy stuff. You should be auditioning to play Disney moms,” she added, “He thought he was giving me good advice, but it just wasn’t my thing. I was typecast. I was seen as a wholesome comedy star, and I was trying to fight against that. I didn’t want to play a Disney mom.”
After that, Ward’s million Instagram fans wanted more. She started selling adult content, including naked photos online. It could be accessed through Snapchat premium account, a porn app for OnlyFans, and content service Patreon. She was proudly saying, “For 2018, I was the No. 1 adult-content creator for Patreon, and it put the power back in my hands. Studios wouldn’t give me that.”
For those wondering how much she makes with the shift of her career, she could make more or less a 5-figure amount per month on OnlyFans, reaching $62,000 last year as her highest profit. She then started something more, going girl-on-girl sex scenes on the premium Snapchat account on which she calls “just another kind of performance.”
That led Maitland Ward to her first porn role, “Drive.” It was announced on her Instagram, where she gave some clips of xrated photos. She is now with Deeper.com, a high-end triple x brand, and has no plans of slowing down as of the moment. She has some projects ongoing currently.
“I don’t have a label either. I’m just this grown woman who loves sex. One thing I like is to surprise people, to shock them, and to get them stirred up. I’m going to keep doing that.”