Porn Star Maitland Ward Recalls Wholesome ‘Boy Meets World’ Finale

5/5/2020
Michael Kaplan
She went from boys to men.
 
Twenty years ago today, network star turned porn-queen Maitland Ward appeared in the final episode of the ABC-Disney Channel sitcom “Boy Meets World.”
 
Since then, in her follow-up vocation, she’s met lots more boys — and some girls, too — in ways that her teenage co-stars and fans could never have anticipated.
 
Ward played Rachel McGuire, the love interest of Jack Hunter (Matthew Lawrence). The finale ended with Jack and Rachel leaving to join the Peace Corps together. On Tuesday, she posted to Instagram commemorating the show and its many wholesome messages.
 
“So many amazing memories I had the honor of experiencing with all of my incredible co-stars. HUGE THANK YOU to all of my amazing BMW fans out there!”
 
Of course, she now has fans of a different stripe. The busty babe’s first full-length skin flick, “Drive,” dropped last year — and garnered her two Adult Video News (AVN) porn awards (one for best three-way sex scene). She announced it all on her Instagram page — which is now loaded with revealing snaps.
 
Ward is unapologetic about her second career, saying that she now makes serious bank while giving fans what they want.
 
“When people say, ‘She had to turn to porn,’ I laugh, because this is a good thing and I am making more [money] now,” she told The Daily Beast. “If you talked to my younger, more virginal soap-opera self, I never would have seen this coming out of me.”
 
Her transition was gradual. Ward began by doing sexy cosplay at comic conventions. When the sultry snaps proved to be a hit, she took things a step further and began selling nude photos and adult content via OnlyFans and Patreon. And it worked.
 
In 2018, Ward shimmied up to being Patreon’s No. 1 adult-content creator. Her best month on OnlyFans yielded a cool $62,000.
 
And it seems to be pleasurable work. She has described her job as something that “feels natural” and gushed, “I’m just this grown woman who loves sex!”
 
Although Ward recently garnered the wrong kind of attention — former adult-industry co-workers claimed in a lawsuit that she scammed them out of $270,000; Ward denied it all — she’s nobody to feel sorry for. The former good girl told the The Wrap that she is using her quarantine time to “make a lot more content” and that she’s “seen upticks in some of my income because people are home and they want entertainment, and they want to get away from all the corona stuff.”
 
Virus or not, don’t expect Ward to let up on her racy second career.
 
“One thing I really like is to surprise people, to shock them and to get them stirred up,” she told the Daily Beast. “I’m going to keep doing that.”
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