‘I used to be by no means ashamed of porn’: Ex-rival of Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina talks profitable life stripping on grownup website OnlyFans

Gold medalist gymnast Verona van de Leur has revealed how grownup website OnlyFans has earned her a residing following her retirement from porn, persevering with a colourful life that has included early fame and a jail spell for blackmail.

Former Dutch Sportswoman of the 12 months Van de Leur used to take pleasure in “doing issues that I could not even think about” as a part of a porn profession alongside her lover, making “far more” cash than she did throughout her distinctive eight years as a creative gymnast.

Now 35, the 2002 World Cup Last gold medalist admitted that she smeared herself with mud, yogurt, whipped cream and chocolate as a part of her transfer into the grownup business between 2011 and 2019, offering “soiled” leisure that included weird sock-based fetishes in response to requests from followers.

“I feel this can be a regular job,” Van de Leur advised Meduza, having turned to the racey subscription-based website since her work as a speaker was curtailed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I hope I can break the cliche and let different individuals see that you would be able to work for your self, based on your personal guidelines – that you would be able to be happy with your physique and earn cash with it.

“I can perceive if faith forbids you or in case you assume porn is one thing irregular in on a regular basis life. I can’t choose these individuals and I hope they will not choose me. There are sufficient erotic or porn followers on the market.

“After I stated I used to be going to stop [porn], followers have been frightened. They turned hooked up to me, they wished to someway stick with me.

“On my account, I started to submit porn content material that was filmed over the previous eight years, which implies that there have been updates daily – so many movies have amassed.

“I nonetheless get lots of video provides however now I’m doing non-porn movies and pictures. This could possibly be a shoot in nylon stockings or one thing associated to gymnastics. Typically I do a striptease, I strip all the way down to my underwear.”

Requested whether or not she had any limits to her performances in her former vocation, Van de Leur revealed that she wouldn’t have intercourse with strangers, work with a movie crew she didn’t know or have interaction in activites that have been painful or unlawful.

The five-time European Championships medalist answered a query about faking orgasms by conceding that she had “moaned too loudly” for impact, and stated that she had by no means regretted a transfer into an business that she was happy with.

Regardless of her stratospheric sporting successes, Van de Leur had a troubled relationship with gymnastics and has led requires investigations into the welfare of younger athletes and potential abuse within the sport after talking out on a variety of traumatic experiences she stated she had suffered.

She turned Dutch champion for a fourth time in 2007 after beginning to work in Nijmegen beneath Russian coach Boris Orlov, who she praised within the interview for working extra pleasurable coaching classes that included “much less worry” round trying tough strikes.

She additionally had a detailed rivalry with a number of Olympic and world champion Svetlana Khorkina, together with ending second to the Russian on the European Championships in 2002.

“At first, I solely knew her on TV once I watched the World Championships or the Olympic Video games,” recalled Van de Leur.

“However once you meet an idol within the corridor, it’s one thing unreal. I didn’t see any flaws in her – maybe she very rigorously hid them from rivals.”

Van de Leur stated she dealt along with her early fame by remaining “glad I wasn’t Britney Spears or some celebrity”, however endured quite a few difficulties within the aftermath of her time in gymnastics.

These troubles included a authorized battle along with her mother and father over funds, a conviction for blackmail of an adulterous couple and, at her lowest ebb, two years residing on the streets earlier than accepting “some huge cash” to turn into a pornstar.

“I do not know the way lengthy the lockdown will final,” she stated of her present scenario. “The federal government doesn’t compensate me for something, however I’ve to stay someway.

“Followers ask me why I made a decision to finish [my porn career] and after so a few years they can not let me go. OnlyFans has turn into a great way to make some huge cash and take note of the followers on the similar time.

“I’m happy with my work and whereas I can nonetheless earn cash from it, why not? In fact, this was not my plan once I introduced my retirement in December 2019, however since then many individuals’s lives have modified.

“Belgium and Holland are nonetheless locked down. We have been advised that till everybody will get the vaccine, life is not going to be regular. I can not look into the long run.

“However I used to be by no means ashamed of porn. I liked the job. There was a second once I might give all of it up utterly – so why not use it?”

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