The Disney actress who found herself in porn cinema

From a very young age, Maitland Ward knows the taste of fame. The American actress debuted at age 17 playing Jessica Forrester in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful,displayed on CBS between 1994 and 1996. She continued to be requested for other roles, such as rachel mguire on the Serie Boy Meets World(in Brazil, The World belongs to the Young),broadcast in Brazil by Disney Channel.

Around here, many may remember her in the comedy film The White Chicks (2004),of the family Wayans. In the plot, she does Brittany Wilson, one of the sisters that the protagonists Kevin and Marcus Copeland (played by Shawn and Marlon Wayans) pretend to be.

Three years later, in 2007, Maitland retired from so-called mainstream acting. She was only 30 years old. She went on to dedicate herself to cosplays (dressing up as iconic characters from movies and series), which guaranteed appearances at events of the kind. In 2013, she began posting nude and semi-nude photos on social media. Until, in 2019, a proposal to work in porn cinema came up.

In an article for Rolling Stone USA,she highlights that sex has always been present in her life in a problematic way. In real life, she lost her virginity after “three bombs from a nerd in a student’s room”. In fiction, right in his first role in The Bold and the Beautiful,her character had her “first time” and shortly afterwards was discarded by the directors, since, in her words, “there was nothing else to do” with her – who, in the interpretation, was no longer a virgin; and in real life, she was getting “fat” according to what she was told.

The little blonde girl decided to dye her hair red, which guaranteed her the role in Boy Meets World,at age 21. It took him a while to realize that the “sexy redhead” persona paid off.

“Hollywood brainwashed me to believe that no matter what I did, everything about me was somehow wrong. I didn’t fit his mold of perfection, but I don’t think anyone else did. […] During my stint on the show, I was always the butt of the jokes that usually involved my butt – and wiggling it for the studio audience to applaud. The boys on the show read my diary and rifled through my underwear drawer while I taught them lessons, washing dishes in my most provocative lingerie. I would go up to the Disney production offices several times to have wardrobe fittings of bras and panties, just to make sure the lingerie was not too sexy, but still sexy enough.”

At the time, she claimed to have had a moment of revelation when discovering her clitoris – “I was having the best orgasm of my life and it was all mine”. However, she assured: she only found herself sexually two decades later, in her 40s, when she became a porn star.

“I didn’t wake up one day and say ‘I want to have sex on camera.’ I spent the last two decades learning who I was as not just a sexual being, but a human being who needed to recognize the value of her wants and needs. I hadn’t been treated as a full human in Hollywood and I think other women felt the same way in all walks of life. We spend our days pleasing others and forget to take care of ourselves. It was during those years of committing to myself that I gained confidence in my body, using it however I wanted. Like many women, I didn’t know at 17, 22 or even 30 who I was and what I wanted. And I found that it comes with many hours and years of standing with trembling fingers on the edge of the high board before finally making the plunge.”

Maitland Ward’s entry into porn cinema

According to Maitland Ward, her first break into the pornographic world was when she walked “into a hotel room with a thousand dollars to have sex with a British man”. He was a professional in the field and the US$ 1,000 would be his salary, since the initiative for the production was the actress’s. Her husband, Terry Baxter, with whom she has been married since 2006, was there to film.

“This would be my first time filming penetrative sex with another man, for my fans and since I got married. It wasn’t just for profit; I had something to prove to myself. This was something I’ve wanted to do for years – meet a stranger in a hotel, have raucous sex and record it all. But could I really do that? I found myself to be exhibitionist and sassy and my husband was so supportive during my years of personal sexual discovery, but we still wondered how this was going to happen.”

It happened quickly, especially since ward I wasn’t nervous. Her husband had no problem with the situation. So, his career in this universe was born, even overcoming some dogmas related to age – “when I was almost 30, an advisor said that if Hollywood wanted a naked girl, they would look for someone with 25”, he says – and fitting into the category called by MILF (“Mother I’d Like to F#ck”, or, in Portuguese, “Mãe que eu would like to f#der”)

“The term MILF is one of the most searched terms on porn sites. Older women who are sensual, self-assured and know what they want from a young lover thrive scene after scene. While the story of a young man being sexualized by a mature woman was once a popular taboo, MILFs are now so embedded in our culture that the term is regularly referenced not only in music and mainstream media, but in everyday life. Fergie took that home with the song ‘MILF$’, which sees powerful celebrity mothers thriving in their incredible careers and demonstrating their sex appeal.”

Today, Maitland Ward she is the exclusive actress of a website that only produces content in the MILF category, in addition to having her own account on the platform OnlyFans (known for explicit content made directly from creators to subscribers). He also wrote the book Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood (not yet released in Portuguese), where, as the title indicates, she explains how porn cinema freed her from Hollywood.