Bringing in an average of £10,000 a month Charlotte Divine’s adult content career appeared to be booming, but she was deeply unhappy and battled addiction, now she has bared all after finding Jesus
An adult model who quit the industry after finding faith believes that the industry is making men “weak”. Charlotte Divine, now 22, joined the site at the age of 18 and developed a drug addiction a year into the job.
Charlotte, from Middlesbrough, North Yorks., continued on the path of creating X-rated content for money for three and a half years. But when a suppressed memory of her childhood trauma came to the forefront of her mind, she was left feeling “sick” about her work.
She shut down her page and social media channels and has since “found Jesus”. She says faith helped her get clean from drugs and heal her trauma.
Charlotte, now 155 days completely sober, said: “Adult sites are weakening the minds of men to the point where they are slaves to their devices, to these videos and to these online ‘models’.
“I think it’s disgusting we live in a society that has so highly normalised women becoming online sex workers that people didn’t even bat an eyelid when I told them what I did for work. It’s pure evil, disgusting and destroying marriages.”
Charlotte, who raked in £10,000 per month from her work, believes that adult platforms are having a dire impact on the “harmony between men and women”.
She added: “Men don’t hold doors open anymore, they don’t defend their loved ones anymore, they don’t fight for what is right, they don’t want marriages, they don’t want children.
“Women are being weakened and made insecure by the idea of what a woman should be or how sex should be, and what is portrayed in p*rn is so far removed from real intimacy and connection.
“Women try to live up to that image, sleep around, objectify themselves, do everything to please men. They don’t know how to carry themselves in a dignified way, not because they don’t want to but because they’re terrified of never being chosen or loved.”
Charlotte’s addiction began after she moved to Australia, where she was introduced to drugs such as ketamine, cocaine, MDMA and LSD. She added: “Cocaine became a problem for me from the first day I did it. It was a love-hate relationship.
“I didn’t enjoy how it made me feel, it was a miserable high in comparison to ketamine, MDMA or LSD but it gave me this sense of pure clarity and calmness that nothing else did. The truth was, I hated my job and [being on drugs] made it easy to do.
“It also made me thinner and as I was struggling with body image at the time, I thought that was a good thing back then.”
Charlotte now spends her days speaking about her experiences online, reading the bible and praying to God. Since quitting adult content creation, she has had to rely on the small amount of savings she still has, with no current income.
She said: “Since I quit, I have no money whatsoever. The small amount of savings I did have in the year I spent on healing from abuse. I don’t go to church, nor do I consider myself to be a Christian.
“Jesus hardly preached in churches; mostly his sermons were outside, on hills and by the sea. He emphasised building a relationship with God first, not the church.
“For me, my path has been about building a relationship directly with God, reading the Bible for myself and praying. i pray every day.”
Throughout her career in the adult industry, Charlotte’s family stuck by her. Despite wanting her to go down a different path they still offered their support her.
She said: “My family were supportive, although they wanted me to take a different path. They warned me that I might regret my decision when I was older, but I was persistent in this pursuit and they chose to support me and love me rather than disown me.”
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