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The daily beast

In 2014, Bella French found herself in dire straits. The French-Canadian had just earned a degree from the prestigious business school HEC Montréal, where she studied marketing and logistics, and decided it was time to take a big swing.

 

Paper magazine

When you're young, paid pittance, and living in one of the world's many high-priced capitals, transitioning into sex work looks more lucrative by the minute. In 2018, an essay for PAPER, French explains her vision and what she believes to be the future of sex.

 

Yahoo Finance

The webcam community can be supportive and beautiful, but at the same time, it can be pretty harsh. I realized we need to provide more tools to content creators and webcam performers, and that started the whole ManyVids idea.

 

In 2021, Bella French made the intentional decision to stop accepting interview requests.

“At the time, it became clear that most journalists were more interested in gossip, competition, and revenue than in the deeper question: How do we evolve the adult industry so profoundly that it either ceases to exist or becomes unrecognizable?

Rather than fueling the noise, I chose to step away from the public eye. I deleted all my social media (already shadow banned) and redirected my energy — laser-sharp — toward building the ecosystem capable of achieving this near-impossible feat, all while under constant attack from institutions and competitors.

This has proven to be the most effective way to protect today’s online sex workers and to do everything in our power to ensure that no new human ever has to get naked to survive.

The faster we achieve this, the faster we rebalance the internet.

We’re here to architect a future rooted in dignity, safety, and radical transformation.” - Bella