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Rebecca Jade was running through the Amazon Rainforest as part of a gruelling ultramarathon over the course of five days. Back home in Llanelli, the 41-year-old’s Only Fans page was running itself while she was trekking through the jungle carrying everything she’d need to survive.
Rebecca, a former Babestation presenter, set up her Only Fans page four years ago and hasn’t looked back. But while most people wind down from their nine to five by kicking back with their favourite Netflix show, Rebecca can be found training hard in the gym for her next bodybuilding competition or race.
Prior to setting up her Only Fans, however, Rebecca had worked for a number of years for Babestation, starting as a 23-year-old in 2007 and working regularly for the channel until her son was born in 2012. However, before beginning her career in front of the cameras, Rebecca says she hadn’t heard of Babestation and had been working in an office job when she had breast augmentation. It was during a photoshoot that a photographer suggested that she take up working for the channel.
“Obviously there’s a lot of stigma around stuff like that but I enjoyed it. It gave me a lot of freedom, I met so many nice people. All the girls and the producers were all really nice and everybody really gets along. They were some of the best days of my life to be honest, I had such a good time,” Rebecca said.
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She added that the stigma never bothered her and that the job allowed her to earn “good money,” giving her freedom to go on holiday when she wanted. At one point, she even moved to Ibiza and would fly back to London for her TV shifts once or twice a week. “It just gave me a lot of freedom and I could enjoy my life,” she said. Having started working for the channel when she was 23, Rebecca continued to travel to London to work for Babestation up until her son was born in 2012. But finding it difficult to juggle travelling back and forth to work with childcare, she decided to move online. “I gave up TV when I was 17 weeks and I webcammed because it was easy to hide it,” she explained.
“When I was working my last job, I was working 60 hours a week, every week and it just wasn’t good for family life and my mental health. It’s just so much nicer now.” Rebecca says that the money she makes varies from month to month but that “you get out what you put in.”
She has completed marathons all over the world, but didn’t start running seriously until around 10 years ago. In New York in 2018, Rebecca got her Six Star Finisher Medal, given to those who complete all of the six major world marathons. “I think I was the second female in Wales to hold that medal. It’s a very special one, you have to do all of the six world majors to get it,” she said. Rebecca decided to push herself even further by signing up for the Jungle Ultra – a gruelling 230km self-sufficient ultramarathon through the Amazon Rainforest across five days.
When the coronavirus pandemic meant that the Jungle Ultra was cancelled until June this year, she decided to go into bodybuilding in the meantime. “I had a good first season, I placed in every show,” she said. “I came second in my first show [PCA First Timer’s Masters category], first in my second show [NSM UK Athletic Masters category], and then I finished fourth in the pro show, third in Diva Fitness, and then I went on to do one last show in November and I finished fourth in the open [PCA Masters category] with an invite to the finals.”
