Sheena Sittner has spoken out after losing her substitute teaching job over her OnlyFans account, saying low educator pay drove her to the side gig.
Sittner, a St. Louis County mother, had spent two years juggling adult content creation with classroom work before a complainant surfaced her secondary income. She told KTVI the discovery came after somebody “did some deep-dive digging” into her online presence. The revelation triggered swift professional consequences from Kelly Education, the contracting firm that employed her.
“If teachers were paid better, women wouldn’t have to resort to online content creation,” Sittner said. “Sex sells.”
The company allegedly warned Sittner via email that she was under suspension pending termination and must “refrain from contacting any school or districts.” The directive hit hardest, she explained, because it threatened her presence at her own son’s school.
“It’s like all of a sudden I’ve done something so wrong and sinful that I’m not even allowed [to] volunteer at his school,” she said.
Sittner drew a sharp distinction between her ability to withstand professional fallout and the personal stakes now in play. “I can find another job. I can handle the backlash and the criticism, but when it affects my child or my children, that’s where I draw the line,” she continued.
Throughout her two-year run on the platform, Sittner maintained she kept her parental and professional identities walled off from her content work. “My personal life is completely separate from my professional life. I have kept those two separate forever,” she said.
She had long accepted that her OnlyFans activity would eventually surface, acknowledging that “whatever you put online, it’s on there forever.” What caught her off guard was the scope of the response. She never could have imagined being “completely stripped away from being at my kid’s school.”
The timeline of the discovery raised her suspicions. “It’s funny because I’ve had this account, this OnlyFans account, for two-plus years,” Sittner noted. “So, whoever did find it did some deep-dive digging, because two years later and now it’s being found out.”
A spokesperson for Sittner’s school district pushed back on the notion that she had been broadly barred from campus life. The district confirmed to KTVI that she should be treated as any other parent, with full ability to volunteer and participate, given that she had passed a background check and completed mandated online safety training.
Kelly Education later clarified that its restriction on school contact applied solely to her professional role as a substitute teacher. “It does not, and cannot, limit anyone’s right as a parent. Nothing in our request restricts their participation in their child’s education,” the company stated.
The contractor’s distinction between employment suspension and parental rights left Sittner navigating a murky zone: professionally sidelined from classrooms she once staffed, yet technically cleared to walk the same hallways for her son’s events.
Sittner’s case lands amid persistent national debate over educator compensation, with many teachers reporting reliance on second jobs to cover basic expenses. Her blunt assessment of the economic logic behind her choice — “Sex sells” — underscored the calculation facing workers in underpaid public service roles seeking financial stability.
The Missouri mother’s situation also highlights the particular vulnerabilities of gig-based education workers, who often lack the tenure protections that might buffer traditional district employees from similar controversies.