You might catch more than a few expecting influencers showing off their pregnancy belly or flaunting their extravagant baby showers & gender reveals, but what happens when they don’t even know they’re pregnant?

Meet the stunning Alex Paige Moore, the platinum blonde Aussie OnlyFans star who had a fascinating – if abrupt – introduction to motherhood. 

“I actually had a six-pack just before I found out that I was pregnant,” Alex says. “I have polycystic ovaries, so I wasn’t getting regular periods anyway, I’d get maybe one or two a year. So, not having a period wasn’t unusual.”

Alex’s social calendar and fitness routine inadvertently enabled her to explain away pregnancy’s more conspicuous signs.

“As for morning sickness, I had a bit of heartburn, but again, it was after I’d taken pre-workout, so I was like, ‘It’s probably just the pre-workout.’ I was really sick one day after I drank, basically vomiting all day. But I was like, ‘I had a big night. I didn’t finish till 3:00 a.m. So, I’m not going to be like, ‘am I pregnant?’ I think I’m just hungover.’”

Initially believing her exhaustion and lapses in consciousness to be the result of an eating disorder, Alex eventually went to the doctor at the behest of her mother. After all, it could be something as simple as a nutrition deficiency, as Alex had thought.

“I went to the doctors and did the blood test and never went back for the results,” Alex explained. “And it was a month later. Mum was like, ‘Did you go back and get the results because you’re not feeling any better?’ And I’m like, ‘No.’ So, she’s like, ‘You need to call up and get the result.’ So, I went in and then they’re like, ‘Yeah, everything’s normal. It’s probably just the fact that you’re pregnant.’ I was like, ‘What? I’m pregnant?’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah didn’t you know?’ I was like, ‘What the hell?’”

At only 21, Alex knew her environment was less than ideal for becoming a mother. She lived at home, trapped in a toxic relationship with her then-boyfriend. It seemed parenthood would condemn this freewheeling young adult to a life of sacrifice and structure.

“When I immediately found out I was pregnant, I assumed, ‘Okay, I must be 4 weeks pregnant.’ Did I have a thought of ‘I don’t know if this is what I want right now?’ 100 percent. I was thinking that,” Alex said. “But then me and my partner were talking about it and before we even found out how far along we were, I felt like the logical thing to do was terminate, even though we were really sad about it.”

What shocked the couple was just how far along Alex was. She had been pregnant for five months. 

“She was posterior, her spine was against my spine,” Alex explains. “I also had an anterior placenta, so a lot of the movement and everything was muffled. It was insane because it was only a week or two after I found out that I started noticing a bump.”

This discovery hamstringed Alex’s ability to terminate her pregnancy and she began to spiral into uncertainty. Like most 21-year-olds, Alex was no stranger to alcohol consumption and drank regularly before she knew she was pregnant. She could only hope that her baby, now undoubtedly on the way, was healthy.

“I was shitting myself the whole pregnancy. I was like, if I’ve done something, if she’s not healthy… I was already freaking out at the fact I’m going to be a mum, let alone having a child that might need even more care. But she came out perfect with five fingers on each hand and ten toes, and I was like, ‘Okay, we’re all good.’”

With her fears about giving birth to an unhealthy child now assuaged, the true challenge began: reckoning with her failing relationship with her child’s father. They eventually decided to end things.

“One of the first things I did after the breakup was get a boob job. I was like, ‘I’m spending it on tits.’  I figured these weren’t going to make money as little saggy things, it was an investment.”

Alex, now a single parent, worked at a dentist’s office as a nurse. Her salary was far from adequate for her and her new baby’s needs, but her mother routinely stepped up to help. 

“I was living at home with my mum, so I didn’t have to pay rent. She was very nice about that. No bills. They provided food. Obviously I would just buy formula and stuff, but yeah, I was looking at that and I’m like, there is no way I’m ever going to buy a house or move out. I can’t afford it. And I was like, ‘That’s just ridiculous.’” 

The dead-end feeling of living off of $30,000 a year eventually became too much to bear, so Alex decided to become an OnlyFans model. Her ex was far from a fan of this, as she explains.

“I suggested it a few times while we were together. I said, ‘I think I want to do an OnlyFans because I can’t live like this. I have no money.’ And he’s like, ‘No, that’s disgusting, selling yourself.’”

Lo and behold, after starting her page and enlisting a friend for help, Alex’s financial worries evaporated almost instantly. Alex became a mother prior to joining OnlyFans, so she was never a pregnant creator, but the Pregnant OnlyFans niche is popping in more ways than one!

“The first couple of weeks, I think I made maybe $800, $2,000, and then we just went really hard. In a couple of months I was making $100,000 USD a month. I knew I had to keep going, I was not going back to being a dental nurse.’”

Though she now had a steady cash flow, Alex’s ex-partner continually urged her to discontinue her page; a position Alex found ironic due to this gentleman’s reliance on child support funds.

“My ex is so reliant on child support. I earn so much more than him that I have to pay him 12 grand a year just for being a dad. He still has digs at me and says I’m disgusting, but he’s happy to take the money. If I wasn’t doing this job, he’d be paying me.” 

Alex Moore’s unbridled positive outlook is something she hopes will guide her on this new journey as a mother.

“I have this mentality where I just know everything’s going to work out for me. I’ll buy an $8,000 a month mortgage that I can hardly afford, and I’m like, ‘I’ll make it work.’ I would rather do something and then work it out than have the regret of missing out.”

“Being a mum has been the most incredible experience of my life. I’m forever grateful that I found out I was pregnant when I did, because I truly can’t imagine my life without my girl. She has made my world a million times better, and I love her more than words could ever describe.”

The platform that turned creators into millionaires is looking for new investment — and deserves more credit than it gets

In news that will surprise exactly nobody who has been paying attention to where the internet’s money actually goes, OnlyFans — the platform the mainstream tech press spent years condescending to — is in talks to sell about a 20% stake to San Francisco investment firm Architect Capital. The deal would value the company at more than $3 billion. For context, that’s more than Twitter was worth for most of its existence, and OnlyFans has never once had to beg advertisers to take it seriously. It found a better way.

The timing carries some weight. The deal comes just weeks after Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-born entrepreneur who purchased OnlyFans in 2018 and quietly transformed it into one of the most creator-friendly platforms on the internet, died of cancer at 43. He was famously reclusive, gave almost no interviews, had barely any public photos, and somehow managed to stay one of the least visible billionaires alive while making nearly $2 million per day from the platform in 2024. Whatever you think of the content OnlyFans hosts, Radvinsky built something that worked, and worked spectacularly, on terms that actually benefited the people producing the content. That’s rarer than it sounds.

OnlyFans takes a 20% cut of creator earnings. Instagram takes 100% of the attention and gives creators a follower count and a prayer. YouTube’s ad revenue share has been a subject of creator grievance for fifteen years. OnlyFans, for all its cultural baggage, built a model where the people doing the work got paid directly by the people who wanted to see it, with minimal algorithmic interference and no brand safety department deciding whose content was acceptable. It is, structurally, one of the most straightforward creator economy platforms ever built. And it got there before “creator economy” was even a phrase people used at conferences.

The numbers are hard to argue with. Spending on the platform hit $7.2 billion in 2024. The platform grew from 13 million users in 2019 to 188 million by 2021, a surge driven in large part by the pandemic when millions of creators, suddenly without their usual income streams, turned to OnlyFans and actually found a reliable one. That’s not an accident or a fluke. That’s a platform delivering on its promise at exactly the moment people needed it to.

Now, with Radvinsky gone, OnlyFans is navigating a transition that would be complicated for any company and is particularly complicated for this one. The Architect Capital deal, which will be a minority stake, could close as early as next month and would reportedly bring new financial services and products for creators. And here is where the story gets genuinely interesting, because this is a real and longstanding problem OnlyFans creators face. 

Many of them can’t get basic banking services. Payment processors have historically treated adult content creators like financial pariahs, leaving people with six-figure incomes unable to get a mortgage or a business account. If Architect Capital’s financial services background translates into actual infrastructure that helps creators manage and access their earnings like normal human beings, that would be a meaningful improvement in the lives of a lot of people the traditional financial system has spent years pretending don’t exist.

This is not OnlyFans’ first attempt at a sale. Reuters reported in May 2025 that the company had been in talks with LA-based Forest Road Company at an $8 billion valuation. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported Architect Capital was eyeing a majority stake at $5.5 billion. Now we’re at a minority stake and $3 billion. The number has drifted downward, which is either a sign of a cooling market for private tech assets generally or a reflection of the unique friction that comes with selling a business that makes squeamish investors reach for their pearls. Probably some of both.

OnlyFans has not been without its stumbles. The platform’s 2021 announcement that it would ban explicit content (which was swiftly reversed after an eruption of entirely justified creator fury) remains the clearest example of what happens when a platform forgets who built it. The reversal was the right call, and OnlyFans made it quickly. Age verification has been an ongoing challenge, and one the platform has faced regulatory and legal pressure over. These are real issues that deserve real solutions.

But the core of what OnlyFans built — a direct payment platform that lets creators control their content and their pricing and their relationship with their audience — is genuinely good. It gave economic agency to a category of creator who every other platform had either exploited or excluded. It made people real money. It treated the transaction honestly, which is more than most of Silicon Valley can say.

Radvinsky built something worth several billion dollars while saying very little about it publicly. There’s a version of this story where that’s suspicious. There’s also a version where a man simply built a product that worked, paid the people who used it, and let the results speak for themselves.

The results, as it turns out, are pretty loud.