Pornstar Riley Reid Says She Lost Her Whole Family And That Porn "Makes Life Really Hard" In Resurfaced Video

A video of Riley Reid detailing the fallout of her family life has resurfaced on TikTok and Twitter. The clips are from a 16-minute Q&A video uploaded in 2020, but in the ever-growing landscape of sex workers, Reid's honesty remains relevant today.

When a fan considering sex work asked Reid how her family handles her being a pornstar, she provided the truth. At first, the adult performer's mother was "supportive," but as time went by, she began to use Reid so that she could "live a more luxurious lifestyle." Reid decided to set boundaries, which only strained her relationship with her mom. "It sucks. I don't have a mom anymore," Reid says. "I don't talk to her. I miss having a mom. I feel like, you can't rewind, and you can't go back. I don't have that relationship with her anymore, I don't ever think I will. And that bums me out. Bums me out a lot."

On the other hand, her father was not as supportive and is religious. Reid sadly shares how she tried to spend time with him several times, only to be rejected. "Recently, I wanted to go visit him, and he said that I can't go visit because his wife, my stepmom, doesn't want me there," she explains. "I'm not allowed to go visit my dad anymore because my stepmom doesn't like that I do porn."

Reid continues, "But then he told me that when I was like, 'Can we, like, go get coffee and get breakfast,' he's like, 'I don't want to be seen in public with you.'" She adds that that moment "hurt so bad."

The rest of her family doesn't want to associate with her either. "I lost my family, I don't talk to, like, my brothers or sisters. I think that they all kind of try to take advantage of me and stuff, or they're just like my dad, don't want to be around me," Reid says tearfully.

"So a lot of the times when people ask me if they should do porn, I tell them 'no.' I tell them that it makes life really hard, it makes dating really hard, it makes your family life really hard, it makes intimacy hard," she states. "If you're putting yourself out there and the world is now judging you, you have to be okay with being shamed every day of your life."

While the 31-year-old previously admitted that dating was difficult, she is now happily married to her husband, and they've even welcomed a child together. However, she admitted that she was worried about how people would treat her kids in the future. "I don't even want to have children, because I do porn, because I'm worried of the way that people will treat my child." Reid had every right to be concerned about her children. This week, she uploaded a video to ask people to stop leaving mean comments about her daughter.

In a similar fashion, former adult film star Lana Rhoades recently shared on The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast that she regrets doing porn and was "ashamed" of it. "Those videos make me want to throw up," she confessed, later adding, "[I had] so many friends and girlfriends who thought porn was a good idea, and they don't end up with the same outcome as me. They end up with a bunch of videos of them getting f*cked on the internet for their family to see. They make no money, and it's over for them."

Many people's first instinct may be to make fun of women like Rhoades and Reid. But the reality of their situation is heartbreaking, and while they do have to face the consequences of their actions, we must remind ourselves that society and social media are partly to blame. People may say they're hypocrites for speaking out against porn, but they deserve to be heard as more women are influenced to profit off sex and join websites like OnlyFans. Their insights and experience – though more traumatizing than "empowering" – serve as a difficult, yet valuable lesson to the young women who are frequently exposed to pro-sex work content online.

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