Maitland Ward highlighted the difference between his salary on Boy Meets World and his income on OnlyFans.
On Monday’s episode of “Hollywood Demons: Child Stars Gone Wild,” the actress recalled (via Us Weekly) that she earned “$20,000 or $25,000” per episode for playing Rachel McGuire on the hit Disney Channel show.
However, the 49-year-old said acting didn’t give her “all guarantees” as she could be “fired” at any time.
Ward contrasted this career with her job at OnlyFans, which brings in “six figures a month.”
“I’m creating this brand,” the former adult film star pointed out. “I can keep doing that for as long as I want.”
Ward, who appeared on Boy Meets World for two seasons, played Jessica Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful for three years.
In 2019, she pivoted to the adult film industry and launched her OnlyFans account.
Ward published her memoir, Rated X: How Porn Liberate Me From Hollywood, three years later.
Over the weekend, she spoke to FOX News Digital about how “freeing” she feels to pursue this other path.
“My story is multifaceted,” she explained. “This is really a story of self-discovery and finding yourself as an authentic human being in every way you want.”
Elsewhere in the interview, she slammed the “Hollywood machine” that viewed her as a “commodity” early in her career.
“When I was interested in this film…they looked at young actors like they were coming in, like property,” Ward said of the industry’s “skewed male gaze.”
She added: “Women were just put into a box where they had to be young women who were either virgins or sluts. And I hate to use those words exactly, but that’s what it was.”
Ward made headlines last year when she told the outlet that she was “respected more” by the public for working in the porn industry than as a mainstream actress.
“Everyone I know was shocked because I felt so positive overall,” Ward said. “Everyone thought people would just tear me apart and I would be judged and piled over the coals.”
