As today's top OnlyFans stars like Lily Phillips and Annie Knight compete with each other to bed the most men in the shortest amount of time possible, a cautionary tale from the woman who started it all may make them think twice about their futures.
Kim Halsey, best known by her stage name Houston, became an X-rated sensation in the late '90s after breaking the world record for the most sexual partners in one session for her now notorious film, The World's Biggest Gang Bang III.
The plan going in was to sleep with 500 men, easily breaking Jasmin St. Claire's record of 300, but the stunt was such a success that Houston made it to an eye-watering 620 fellas before calling it a day.
The movie became an instant bestseller and catapulted the single mom to instant infamy.
She appeared all over TV and radio, signed a record deal, toured the world, dated celebrities, and even auctioned off a piece of her own labia for six figures.
However, behind the scenes, Houston was dealing with a dangerous drug addiction, financial issues, and creepy male fans who recognized her everywhere she went.
While Houston publicly portrayed herself as an empowered adult superstar during the height of her fame, the truth about her raunchy career couldn't be any more grim.
In order to land her career-making role in the record-breaking film, Houston first had to partake in a taboo sex act with one of the video's sleazy producers.
Kim Halsey, best known by her stage name Houston, became an X-rated sensation in the late '90s after breaking the world record for the most sexual partners in one session
Detailing the ordeal in her 2012 autobiography titled Pretty Enough: The Story of the Gang Bang Queen, Houston wrote, 'When I agreed to do it, he did everything he could to degrade me as much as possible.'
She continued, 'Spitting on me, calling me a w***e, doing everything he could to make me feel like a piece of s**t.'
Once she secured her starring role, Houston did the unthinkable right before filming - she got a religious tattoo of a cherub.
'It was my way of asking God to forgive me for what I was about to do,' she confessed.
'It may surprise you to hear that, but my faith has always been very important to me, even when I put it on the backburner sometimes.'
On the big day of filming, Houston, dressed like a sexy speed racer, was surrounded by throngs of men, fluffers, lighting technicians, and a camera crew.
She admits that she used 'porn math' to reach 620 sex acts in just eight hours, meaning that any penetration, no matter how brief, was counted.
While her suitors all had to be tested to prove they were disease free, the group weren't exactly what you'd describe as gentlemen.
She detailed her spiral into drug addiction in her 2012 memoir, Pretty Enough: The Story of the Gang Bang Queen
At the height of her fame, Houston appeared all over TV and radio, signed a record deal, toured the world, and even dated A-list celebrities
Describing the participants, Houston said that the diverse gang included a 'speed freak in full-blown psychosis,' a Burt Reynolds impersonator, and worst of all, a male performer who had put his own mother in a porn film to pay off a gambling debt.
'One by one they climbed on top of me, and their faces became a blur,' Houston wrote.
After passing 500, Houston decided to keep going 'for another round or two' until she was so exhausted that she had to stop.
'Something was collapsing inside me, physically and emotionally,' she recalled.
'I felt as if somebody had aimed a flamethrower at my crotch. I retreated backstage and applied ice to my swollen and battered vagina, fighting back tears.'
After breaking the previous record and then some, Houston and the crew celebrated by chowing down on mozzarella sticks at fast food chain TGI Friday's.
'The next day, I caught a flight to Mexico and spent the next two weeks recovering,' she wrote.
After a short break, Houston got back to work by touring strip clubs across the country and reveling in her newfound celebrity status.
By the end of the year, she'd pocketed close to a million dollars and was the highest-paid feature dancer next to porn legend Jenna Jameson.
'I had more than enough to pay for the cost of raising my daughter,' she wrote.
'I bought a house in Granada Hills and several cars. I'm not sure where the rest of the excess cash went, but I'd guess a fair amount went to drug dealers, liquor stores, clothing designers, home remodelers, and plastic surgeons.'
Behind the scenes, Houston was dealing with a dangerous drug addiction, financial issues, and creepy male fans who recognized her everywhere she went
As her fame and bank account grew, so did Houston's addiction to both drugs and plastic surgery.
She confessed to using cocaine and crystal meth to keep her energized for her grueling strip club gigs, and would often go for days without eating.
By 2002, her bank account was dwindling and the house she'd bought with her hard-earned bucks was facing foreclosure.
'I had always been a functional addict in that I was obviously addicted to all the sell drugs I was doing, but I somehow managed to always do the work I was supposed to do in order to provide for my daughter and myself,' she wrote.
'But by this point, there was so much money going into drugs that no matter how much I was earning, it just wasn't enough,' she continued.
'One day I realized that I was going to die soon if I didn't change anything.'
On top of her crippling drug addiction, Houston was also battling a penchant for plastic surgery that had almost killed her.
'No matter how many compliments I've gotten, no matter how many people told me how attractive they thought I was, no matter how many beauty contests I won, I never felt pretty enough,' she admitted.
'Plastic surgery offered me the ability to fix things I hated about myself, but as time went on, it became an addiction, an obsession.'
At one point, she almost died after getting a labiaplasty and breast revision in one sitting.
She was replacing her silicone implants with saline ones at the time, but after the surgery, one of her breasts clotted and cut off the oxygen to her brain.
It swelled up to the size of a watermelon before Houston passed out and was rushed into emergency surgery, which narrowly saved her life.
In attempt to turn her life around, Houston fled Los Angeles for Las Vegas, with the goal of starting fresh in a new city.
However, she took her drug addiction with her, and admitted to having her dealers back in LA mail her drugs in bath salt containers so she could keep up her habit.
Eventually she became so drug addled that she couldn't pick her daughter up from school.
Reaching her lowest point, Houston turned to the only person left that could help her.
'I crawled into my closet and crawled on the flood and I prayed,' she wrote.
'God, please help me get off the drugs. Please. I want to be a mother for once. I don't want to be Houston any more,' she begged.
She decided to go cold turkey, and after finally getting clean, the blonde bombshell quit porn and enrolled in real estate school.
Unfortunately, this wasn't the end of her troubles.
She confessed to using cocaine and crystal meth to keep her energized for her grueling strip club gigs, and would often go for days without eating
Houston eventually quit drugs and pornography and joined a Christian church that focused on sex workers
After earning her real estate license and joining a reputable agency in Nevada, Houston was fired when her bosses discovered her X-rated past.
She pleaded for her job and told her bosses that she'd been out of the industry for close to a decade, but they wouldn't budge.
'There's no way we can have someone with your reputation on the front lines for us,' they told her.
A week after getting fired, Houston was diagnosed with stage three cancer.
Having blown through all her porn money and now unemployed, Houston turned to her parents, among others, to help pay for her treatment.
She had fifteen lymph nodes removed from her arm and miraculously, despite being given a 20 per cent chance of survival, she lived.
The experience only increased Houston's faith in God, and she eventually joined a church that focused on embracing people who had come from sex work.
'Now, I feel I have a mission in Christ,' she wrote in her memoir. 'You don't just have to sell drugs your body to make money.'
Houston's hardships serve as a cautionary tale to many of today's OnlyFans starlets, who are pushing the envelope further and further in a bid for fame and fortune.
Lily Phillips, 24, recently shocked the world after revealing that she'd had sex with over 100 men in one night as part of a stunt to promote her OnlyFans - and that her next goal is to bed 1,000 men in 24 hours.
OnlyFans star Lily Phillips is attempting to surpass Houston's sex record by bedding 1,000 men in 24 hours
Her antics have even shocked some of her fellow sex workers, including OnlyFans sensation Kassidie Kosa, who blasted Lily's outrageous behavior and warned others not to follow in her footsteps.
'Honestly, I think doing something that extreme can be a form of self-harm, even if people don't always see it that way,' she previously told DailyMail.com.
'It feels like it could come from a deeper emotional place - whether it's the need for attention, validation or drug just trying to stand out in such a competitive space like OnlyFans,' she continued.
'I totally respect that people can make their own choices but this kind of behavior isn't sustainable or healthy in the long run.'
Kassidie, who currently earns seven figures on OnlyFans, also fears that Lily's behavior could encourage other models to go to extreme lengths to create content.
'It also sends a message to others in the industry that pushing yourself to dangerous extremes is normal, and that's just not okay,' she said.
'I truly think she needs help - and I say that with so much respect. The fact that she now plans to sleep with even more men next time is really alarming.
'It's not sustainable, it's not healthy, and it shouldn't be normalized,' she warned.
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Kim Halsey, best known by her stage name Houston, became an X-rated sensation in the late '90s after breaking the world record for the most sexual partners in one session for her now notorious film, The World's Biggest Gang Bang III.
The plan going in was to sleep with 500 men, easily breaking Jasmin St. Claire's record of 300, but the stunt was such a success that Houston made it to an eye-watering 620 fellas before calling it a day.The movie became an instant bestseller and catapulted the single mom to instant infamy.
She appeared all over TV and radio, signed a record deal, toured the world, dated celebrities, and even auctioned off a piece of her own labia for six figures.
However, behind the scenes, Houston was dealing with a dangerous drug addiction, financial issues, and creepy male fans who recognized her everywhere she went.
While Houston publicly portrayed herself as an empowered adult superstar during the height of her fame, the truth about her raunchy career couldn't be any more grim.
In order to land her career-making role in the record-breaking film, Houston first had to partake in a taboo sex act with one of the video's sleazy producers.
Kim Halsey, best known by her stage name Houston, became an X-rated sensation in the late '90s after breaking the world record for the most sexual partners in one session
Detailing the ordeal in her 2012 autobiography titled Pretty Enough: The Story of the Gang Bang Queen, Houston wrote, 'When I agreed to do it, he did everything he could to degrade me as much as possible.'
She continued, 'Spitting on me, calling me a w***e, doing everything he could to make me feel like a piece of s**t.'
Once she secured her starring role, Houston did the unthinkable right before filming - she got a religious tattoo of a cherub.
'It was my way of asking God to forgive me for what I was about to do,' she confessed.
'It may surprise you to hear that, but my faith has always been very important to me, even when I put it on the backburner sometimes.'
On the big day of filming, Houston, dressed like a sexy speed racer, was surrounded by throngs of men, fluffers, lighting technicians, and a camera crew.
She admits that she used 'porn math' to reach 620 sex acts in just eight hours, meaning that any penetration, no matter how brief, was counted.
While her suitors all had to be tested to prove they were disease free, the group weren't exactly what you'd describe as gentlemen.
She detailed her spiral into drug addiction in her 2012 memoir, Pretty Enough: The Story of the Gang Bang Queen
At the height of her fame, Houston appeared all over TV and radio, signed a record deal, toured the world, and even dated A-list celebrities
Describing the participants, Houston said that the diverse gang included a 'speed freak in full-blown psychosis,' a Burt Reynolds impersonator, and worst of all, a male performer who had put his own mother in a porn film to pay off a gambling debt.
'One by one they climbed on top of me, and their faces became a blur,' Houston wrote.
After passing 500, Houston decided to keep going 'for another round or two' until she was so exhausted that she had to stop.
'Something was collapsing inside me, physically and emotionally,' she recalled.
'I felt as if somebody had aimed a flamethrower at my crotch. I retreated backstage and applied ice to my swollen and battered vagina, fighting back tears.'
After breaking the previous record and then some, Houston and the crew celebrated by chowing down on mozzarella sticks at fast food chain TGI Friday's.
'The next day, I caught a flight to Mexico and spent the next two weeks recovering,' she wrote.
After a short break, Houston got back to work by touring strip clubs across the country and reveling in her newfound celebrity status.
By the end of the year, she'd pocketed close to a million dollars and was the highest-paid feature dancer next to porn legend Jenna Jameson.
'I had more than enough to pay for the cost of raising my daughter,' she wrote.
'I bought a house in Granada Hills and several cars. I'm not sure where the rest of the excess cash went, but I'd guess a fair amount went to drug dealers, liquor stores, clothing designers, home remodelers, and plastic surgeons.'
Behind the scenes, Houston was dealing with a dangerous drug addiction, financial issues, and creepy male fans who recognized her everywhere she went
As her fame and bank account grew, so did Houston's addiction to both drugs and plastic surgery.
She confessed to using cocaine and crystal meth to keep her energized for her grueling strip club gigs, and would often go for days without eating.
By 2002, her bank account was dwindling and the house she'd bought with her hard-earned bucks was facing foreclosure.
'I had always been a functional addict in that I was obviously addicted to all the sell drugs I was doing, but I somehow managed to always do the work I was supposed to do in order to provide for my daughter and myself,' she wrote.
'But by this point, there was so much money going into drugs that no matter how much I was earning, it just wasn't enough,' she continued.
'One day I realized that I was going to die soon if I didn't change anything.'
On top of her crippling drug addiction, Houston was also battling a penchant for plastic surgery that had almost killed her.
'No matter how many compliments I've gotten, no matter how many people told me how attractive they thought I was, no matter how many beauty contests I won, I never felt pretty enough,' she admitted.
'Plastic surgery offered me the ability to fix things I hated about myself, but as time went on, it became an addiction, an obsession.'
At one point, she almost died after getting a labiaplasty and breast revision in one sitting.
She was replacing her silicone implants with saline ones at the time, but after the surgery, one of her breasts clotted and cut off the oxygen to her brain.
It swelled up to the size of a watermelon before Houston passed out and was rushed into emergency surgery, which narrowly saved her life.
In attempt to turn her life around, Houston fled Los Angeles for Las Vegas, with the goal of starting fresh in a new city.
However, she took her drug addiction with her, and admitted to having her dealers back in LA mail her drugs in bath salt containers so she could keep up her habit.
Eventually she became so drug addled that she couldn't pick her daughter up from school.
Reaching her lowest point, Houston turned to the only person left that could help her.
'I crawled into my closet and crawled on the flood and I prayed,' she wrote.
'God, please help me get off the drugs. Please. I want to be a mother for once. I don't want to be Houston any more,' she begged.
She decided to go cold turkey, and after finally getting clean, the blonde bombshell quit porn and enrolled in real estate school.
Unfortunately, this wasn't the end of her troubles.
She confessed to using cocaine and crystal meth to keep her energized for her grueling strip club gigs, and would often go for days without eating
Houston eventually quit drugs and pornography and joined a Christian church that focused on sex workers
After earning her real estate license and joining a reputable agency in Nevada, Houston was fired when her bosses discovered her X-rated past.
She pleaded for her job and told her bosses that she'd been out of the industry for close to a decade, but they wouldn't budge.
'There's no way we can have someone with your reputation on the front lines for us,' they told her.
A week after getting fired, Houston was diagnosed with stage three cancer.
Having blown through all her porn money and now unemployed, Houston turned to her parents, among others, to help pay for her treatment.
She had fifteen lymph nodes removed from her arm and miraculously, despite being given a 20 per cent chance of survival, she lived.
The experience only increased Houston's faith in God, and she eventually joined a church that focused on embracing people who had come from sex work.
'Now, I feel I have a mission in Christ,' she wrote in her memoir. 'You don't just have to sell drugs your body to make money.'
Houston's hardships serve as a cautionary tale to many of today's OnlyFans starlets, who are pushing the envelope further and further in a bid for fame and fortune.
Lily Phillips, 24, recently shocked the world after revealing that she'd had sex with over 100 men in one night as part of a stunt to promote her OnlyFans - and that her next goal is to bed 1,000 men in 24 hours.
OnlyFans star Lily Phillips is attempting to surpass Houston's sex record by bedding 1,000 men in 24 hours
Her antics have even shocked some of her fellow sex workers, including OnlyFans sensation Kassidie Kosa, who blasted Lily's outrageous behavior and warned others not to follow in her footsteps.
'Honestly, I think doing something that extreme can be a form of self-harm, even if people don't always see it that way,' she previously told DailyMail.com.
'It feels like it could come from a deeper emotional place - whether it's the need for attention, validation or drug just trying to stand out in such a competitive space like OnlyFans,' she continued.
'I totally respect that people can make their own choices but this kind of behavior isn't sustainable or healthy in the long run.'
Kassidie, who currently earns seven figures on OnlyFans, also fears that Lily's behavior could encourage other models to go to extreme lengths to create content.
'It also sends a message to others in the industry that pushing yourself to dangerous extremes is normal, and that's just not okay,' she said.
'I truly think she needs help - and I say that with so much respect. The fact that she now plans to sleep with even more men next time is really alarming.
'It's not sustainable, it's not healthy, and it shouldn't be normalized,' she warned.
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