The adult star, renowned for using rage-bait as a profit machine, has claimed she’s pregnant. The Mirror’s Ellie Fry writes that there’s a darker truth to the stunt that everyone has overlooked
Bonnie Blue has announced she’s pregnant(Image: @Bonnie Blue/YouTube)
DNA swabs, balaclavas and ‘breeding’ T-shirts, Bonnie Blue’s desperate rage-bait has hit a new low.
Two weeks ago, Bonnie, real name Tia Billinger, invited 400 men to a London mansion to sleep with her in what she coined a ‘breeding mission’. Some queued for seven hours as the demand was so high.
Refreshments were served and DNA samples were taken as the sex star vowed to make someone ‘a daddy’. And now, as if by magic, she’s claiming to be pregnant – the timing seemingly lining up with her latest stunt.
For those aware of Bonnie’s business model, it might sound all too familiar. Her latest ‘challenge’ certainly echoes the 1,000 man ‘record’ that torpedoed her to viral sex stardom. But I suspect there’s far more than meets the eye with Bonnie’s latest venture – and we should all be worried.
It might sound strange to call pregnancy a venture, but that’s exactly what it is – a new money-making scheme in her lucrative niche of encouraging ‘normal’ men to fulfil a disturbing fantasy.
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And it’s this normalisation of such extremes that has long left me feeling terrified for the young people who are consuming this content, be it inadvertently on social media or more deliberately on adult content platforms. Either way, Bonnie’s brand is impossible to avoid and is already shaping how young people view sex – with teenage girls reporting that boys are expecting them to behave like Bonnie in the bedroom.
Clearly running out of extremes to subject herself to, conceiving a child at one of her sordid sex marathons is naturally the next step for a woman who claims to have made millions from these events.
However, like everything Bonnie does, the announcement should be taken with a hefty grain of salt given she’s been caught out in a fertility hoax before. The last time she hinted at being pregnant, the star said she did it to raise money for someone’s IVF treatment. As someone who has openly spoken about her own fertility struggles with her ex-husband in the past, Bonnie should surely know how upsetting pregnancy jokes can be for women who can’t conceive naturally.
But that’s not even the worst part of her latest stunt. For me, it’s the continuous fetishisation of vulnerability that makes my stomach churn.
When I was invited to a screening of Bonnie’s controversial Channel 4 documentary last year, I wasn’t shocked by the explicit sex scenes or vulgar language. It was the way in which she seems to deliberately profit from the powerlessness of the young men and women who agree to appear in her films that stayed with me. And, as I said at the time, this connection to the everyday public is exactly where that danger lies – it feels so within reach, despite being so extreme.
In the show, the more viral Bonnie gets, the further she leans into these extreme sex acts, as she begins relying on the use of young girls in her content. One scene shows Bonnie filming a sex tape with multiple other young female OnlyFans creators and a male porn star. Interviewing the women who have been recruited to take part in the stunt, filmed in a school classroom, the documentary’s director says that the creators aren’t being paid to take part.
One young woman, who profits on OnlyFans with solo work and content with her partner, tells the camera that she’s never done anything this “adventurous” and looks visibly nervous.
Another timidly admits that the only time she’s ever seen live sex is in Amsterdam in the red light district. A third creator, a 21-year-old woman, admits her subscribers love her content because she looks so much younger than she is. Bonnie says of the classroom film: “The fact that they are so nervous actually works in my favour, because their reactions are going to be more realistic.”
Meanwhile, her petting zoo stunt, that got cancelled after OnlyFans decided to permanently ban her from its platform at the final hour, would have seen Bonnie “tied down” in a glass box in a house in London, where strangers would come and do “whatever they wanted”. Bonnie bragged in the documentary: “I am going to be completely helpless, tied down, gagged, choked”.
In response to her critics, she bizarrely claimed that these sorts of stunts ‘help women’. “If I literally lay there and say to an 18-year-old that’s not experienced a woman’s body, ‘try different things, do different things as well’, and they don’t know how to… do different things or choking and hair pulling. So sort of them trialling it out on me sort of protects women moving forward because they’re doing it in a positive and pleasurable way instead of potentially hurting that person,” she argued.
But the evidence suggests anything but. Alarmingly, a recent government review found porn involving non-fatal strangulation (NFS) was “rife” and that its prevalence online was contributing to choking becoming commonplace in some people’s sex lives – particularly among young people. Even more disturbingly, the UK courts have seen an alarming rise in women’s lives ending after what those accused of their deaths say were ‘sex games gone wrong’.
Bonnie has an obsession with fetishising vulnerability because horrifyingly, she knows it sells. And it’s hard to imagine a more vulnerable time in a woman’s life than pregnancy.
Whether she is having a child or not is arguably irrelevant. It’s the bragging about not using protection with hundreds of men who weren’t screened for STIs; the imploring strangers to impregnate her, and the suggestion that she’s some type of saviour for women that’s the real problem. Ultimately, her content is built to shock and fascinate men – and to exploit and shame women. It’s terrifying to think about what might come next.
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