(RNS) — Months after accepting an award in Miami recognizing her as one of OnlyFans’ highest-earning creators, Nala Ray was baptized at Fearless Church, a non-denominational Christian church in Los Angeles, and quit making the content that she says generated more than $14 million from 270,000 subscribers.
“I made more money than most NFL players,” Ray said. “I could have anything I wanted. It’s a very big false sense of empowerment.”
Ray, 28, left OnlyFans in 2024. She has since married her husband, Jordan Giordano, a former Marine whose Christian faith she credits as instrumental in her own return to church, and the couple recently moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
“God has this cleansing process, the sanctification, and it’s a beautiful thing,” Ray said. “Sometimes it hurts, and I’m going through that now.”
A video recording of her baptism on Dec. 26, 2023 generated 8.1 million views on her Instagram. Ray has since rebranded her online persona toward faith-focused and lifestyle content, often posting brand deals with Bible apps, prayer rings, a vacuum and Magnolia Cinnamon rolls. Her audience, which on Instagram is 1.4 million and on TikTok 730,000, has grown since she announced she was quitting.
“My social media blew up after telling my testimony,” Ray said, using a common evangelical term for the story of one’s conversion, or re-conversion in Ray’s case.
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