I’m a single mum-of-four and make £400 a day without leaving my bedroom… other mums slam my side hustle but I don’t care
“WHAT really turns you on?” purrs Sarah, leaning into the camera.
Before the client can answer she hears the familiar sound of her kids crashing around upstairs and has to wrap up the sexy call.
It’s 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon and the 32-year-old single mum-of-four is juggling motherhood with camming.
“Most of the time I’m on camera the kids aren’t in the house,” she tells The Sun. “I try to cam when they’re at school.
“But it’s very hard to ignore calls when you know that means money and you’ve got four kids upstairs, but I try and keep the tone down.”
The world of camming has exploded since lockdown, with tens of thousands of women now selling sexually explicit shows from their bedrooms.
It’s attracting women from all backgrounds – including single mums like Sarah who need a flexible job to work around their kids.
Sarah – who stars in the new Channel 4 series Confessions of a Cam Girl and goes by the name Sarah Obsessed – tells how she can flip between ‘mum mode’ and cam girl mode within seconds.
“In mum mode my hair is swept into a high bun and I have food all down me,” she laughs.
“When I’m working I need to be a hairdresser, beautician, videographer and sexy at the same time. It’s very stressful.”
While other mums at the school gates are nice to her face, Sarah claims they talk about her behind her back.
“They can be quite nasty,” she says. “They don’t think I’m neglecting my kids but they do think I’m exposing them to what I do as a job.”
Sarah started camming when her ex-husband unexpectedly left her two years ago. Her oldest child is 15 and her youngest is six.
“I only had £5 to get dinners for a whole week,” she says.
“I’d previously worked as a carer and a beautician but I needed a flexible job.”
Sarah tells how she was ‘very nervous’ when she logged on and took the first call.
Other mums can be quite nasty behind my back. They don’t think I’m neglecting my kids but they do think I’m exposing them to what I do as a job
Sarah Obsessed
“I had no idea what was going to be waiting for me on the other side of my screen,” she recalls. “But the nerves went very quickly and I went into porn star mode.
“Men and women ask me to do all sorts of things, from playing with my sex toys to dirty talk.
“My niche is being a MILF… I’m very well known. Most of my clients are aged 22 to 28.
“Sometimes they’re lonely and just call for a chat. I won’t take my clothes off at all. They’ll just want to know what I had for dinner and how my kids are.
“Other times I can spend my whole day doing extremely naughty stuff. You never know what you will get from one day to the next.”
Strange requests
Sarah says she gets some very “strange requests”, and does turn them down sometimes.
“It can be totally random,” she explains. “Like sitting in a chair naked wearing a leather jacket and nothing else and smoking a cigarette.
“Or if someone has a foot fetish, they’ll ask me to sit with my feet in the air so they can admire the soles of my feet.
“I do have limits though and you can turn down requests you don’t want to do, no one is forcing you to do it.
“You can also block users if you need to, which comes in handy. Although most people would be surprised to hear that I’ve only had to block one guy. His request was completely over the mark and he was quite rude when I told him ‘no’.”
Sarah says that there is a dark side to camming and girls must protect themselves from stalkers, adding: “I never give away any of my personal details or any of my personal social media – it’s completely separate and very hidden, and I only accept family on these accounts.”
£400 a day
Sarah currently works for herself and can rake in up to £400 a day.
“I have previously worked with an agency, but it didn’t work out,” she continues. “On bad days I’ll only make £20.”
One of her goals is to set up a camming agency with one of her mum friends.
“This agency would be for mums who want to cam, and we can advise them on how to do this in a safe manner when you have kids,” she says.
“I haven’t been camming as much recently as my children have had a lot going on with school and needed me to focus on them.
“Two of my children have special needs, so sometimes they need me a lot more than other times.
“They don’t ask me about my job, they just love me as their mum.”
She adds: “Mum guilt is real, no matter what job you do. We all suffer from it.”
‘Supportive’
Sarah is very open about her job and her family are “so supportive”.
“I tell my mum and my sisters over a cup of tea all of my cam stories,” she laughs. “They all help me with childcare if I want to cam or go on photo shoots.
“My mum and all my family will tell people what I do, which is great and I’m very lucky to have that. My mum has even shared some of my modelling shoots on her Facebook which is cute.”
Growing up Sarah had a very privileged childhood – she went to private school and enjoyed expensive skiing trips.
“I cam because I want to give my kids the upbringing I had,” she explains. “I’ll send my kids to private school if I can afford it.”
‘I make £10K a week and quit being a doctor’
Maya Petite a 22-year-old from Yorkshire, started camming two years ago, after returning to the UK from Pakistan, and quit her medical degree to do it full-time.
Her white British mother and grandmother are hugely supportive of her new career, and her lucrative job allows her to support them both financially.
“I can earn between 5k to 10k a week without leaving my bedroom,” she says. “I love my job more than I can describe.”
Maya is from a strict Islamic Pakistani background and claims she became very sexually active because she wasn’t educated about sex.
“If someone had told me what it would be like, I wouldn’t have gone and slept with lots and lots of men to experience what it felt like,” she explains.
While Maya loves her job, she works long hours and is beginning to feel “burnt out”.
“I genuinely believe if I had become a doctor I would have been really miserable,” she says.
“With camming I can be who I want to be, but a recent health diagnosis has caused me to question how much more I can continue to cam.”
Confessions of a Cam Girl airs Monday at 10pm on Channel 4. Catch up on 4oD.