A MUM-OF-TWO revealed how she went from a minimum wage job to earning £8,000 a month.
Emily Kathleen, 30, was making £19k-a-year working in admin but ended up quitting during the pandemic to become a webcam model.
The career move saw her go from being “practically homeless” to raking in thousands each month by joining saucy video chats with men.
Her experience led her to set up her own camgirl agency, which has become so successful she has stopped her own cam work altogether.
High Society Models employs 983 webcam models whose work rakes in £4 million in yearly revenue – and has won two agency awards.
Her models join live chats, which may include strip-teasing and kinky conversations, and Emily takes up to a 15% cut of their earnings each month.
Her aim is to support and empower women who work as camgirls – getting them financial support and breaking the stigma around the industry.
“I do miss camming so much – but I’m so busy running the agency now that I have no time,” said Emily, who went on webcam for the last time in June before she retired.
“I’d rather be doing this and helping other women to become financially independent than doing the camming myself.
“This work definitely isn’t for the weak – I’m a workaholic and I’ve never had a day off.
“People say webcamming is disgusting – but I pay more tax than my annual salary when I was working in admin.”
Emily, who lives with her children and fiance Jake Proctor, 32, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, did her first webcam job in 2020 after signing up to a camgirl agency to bring in some more cash.
She had previously been working for a housing association and ended up signed off due to stress – meaning she was left struggling to pay her rent.
She said she became “practically homeless” until getting £400 from one night on webcam – and eventually started doing webcam work full-time.
Emily would log onto her laptop daily to “entertain” clients from her bedroom via a live web link.
This would include everything from performing strip teases, to flirting and just chatting with them.
Her hours would vary week to week, but Emily would work between 20 to 30 hours a week webcamming.
“I had nothing to lose so I thought I’d give webcam modelling a go,” she said.
Women are being sexualised by men either way, people just get pissed we’ve found a way to get paid for it.
Emily Kathleen
“It was scary leaving my job, but I found something I loved doing.
“I would strip and have fun with them if I felt comfortable. I would chat to them, flirt, and just have a laugh.
“Men are there to speak to an actual person – otherwise they could go and watch porn.”
Emily’s love for the industry led to her founding High Society Models in 2021 – a female-run modelling agency that offers webcamming and adult services.
She continued camming on the side for a while – but the company took off and running the business became her full-time job.
Emily now employs some 983 models as well as more than 70 admin team members.
“We had our highest week on December 2, which was £98,258.95 spent on our models in a week,” Emily said.
She credits the agency’s growing success to creating an empowering work system for the models – giving them a sense of autonomy in an industry catering largely for men.
Emily offers a fair cut of pay, on-request payments, mental health support, and parties and events for models.
The agency bagged two awards in 2024 for its success – Snap Awards Webcam Agency Of The Year and UK Glamour Awards Agency Of The Year.
“A lot of agencies out there are ran by people who don’t give a crap about the models,” she said.
“With us, the models can have their money whenever they want it, they don’t have to wait until payday.
“I know what it’s like to need that money to pay your gas meter – I used to live paycheck to paycheck in a council flat.
“Going on cam that one time changed my life.”
Emily says she also wants to destigmatise webcam work and empower women to do work they enjoy.
“Most important to me is that they feel comfortable and empowered by what they’re doing,” she said.
“We have women of all shapes and sizes – one of our biggest earners is a size 20 girl.
“I want to help women gain confidence and live a better quality of life by finding the same financial freedom I did.
“The stigma is there – but we’re not pornstars, we’re just normal women you could bump into in Lidl, trying to make a living.
“People say it’s disgusting – but would you rather I was a stay-at-home mum claiming benefits, or paying tax back into the system?
“I’ve helped so many other women get off benefits and start paying back into the system.”
“With the stigma, I think people like to forget it’s a supply and demand job,” she added.
“Women are being sexualised by men either way.
“People just get pissed we’ve found a way to get paid for it.”
