Maitland Ward Says Becoming A Porn Star Was 'Soul-Changing'

"Boy Meets World" sitcom star Maitland Ward is opening up on what it was like to become a porn star in her brand new memoir, "Rated X," out September 6.

The former Disney star first started her acting career on the soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” while she was still a junior in high school. She later went on to star opposite Mario Lopez in the made-for-TV movie, “Killing Mr. Griffin.”

She later went on to star as Rachel McGuire in the ABC sitcom “Boy Meets World” in 1998. In her new memoir, she criticized Disney – ABC’s parent company – for objectifying her as a young girl.

Page Six got a sneak peek at her memoir before its release on Tuesday, and shared some of her bombshell allegations, such as being asked to try on lingerie for ABC producers while she was still a child star.

“I was asked to try on lingerie for the producers in the office,” Ward wrote in her memoir. “This happened more than once, as Rachel was the only character to consistently take off her clothes. An assistant would gather me from my dressing room and take me upstairs where I’d be provided with a series of options, some playful and girlish, some so provocative I knew that Disney would never approve them, but still I would try them on.”

She said that the curtain she was forced to change behind was so thin that she was “sure they could see the silhouette of my naked form.”

After she had changed, she said a group consisting of mostly men would judge the outfits based on whether or not they “showed too much or not nearly enough to get the boys [watching the series] excited.” She recalled one producer telling her, “You’re like a daughter to me” before asking her to try on more lingerie.

The series ended in 2000 and she made an appearance in the 2004 comedy “White Chicks” before she later turned to adult acting. “To be expendable is to be a woman in Hollywood,” she wrote. “And you’re not worth anything to anyone if you can’t prop your man up.”

After posting topless photos on social media, in 2019, she announced that she was starring in an adult action film called “Drive, directed by veteran porn star Kayden Kross. The full-length film featured Ward as an “innocent” woman who starts to “bloom.”

After her career took a turn into adult acting, Maitland Ward said that she found a “new confidence” that she hadn’t had before.

“I found myself a changed person after all this began,” Ward said of her career in adult entertainment. “I had new confidence and a full-time job, and it wasn’t because I smiled for any higher-ups. The validation that I was given, especially after being told that no one would ever pay a dime to see me sexy, was soul changing.”

Although she married real estate agent Terry Baxter in 2006, Ward realized that she is also sexually attracted to women. In her memoir, she praised him for recognizing that her “twisted-up sexual desires” are “something valid and real.”

According to the New York Post, Maitland Ward pulled in six figures a month from OnlyFans in 2021. She said that the sum has allowed her to do “more acting than I’ve ever done,” and make “more money and feel more powerful than I ever have in my life.”

“I was brainwashed into believing that nothing else mattered than a Hollywood job,” she wrote, explaining that the money that she’s received from the porn industry has allowed her to live life on her own terms.

That being said, it seems her life has really come full circle, as she’s back to starring in a new comedy sitcom called “The Big Time,” where she plays an adult superstar. Although she admitted that she was nervous before filming started, she compared it to riding a bike.

“It was like riding a bike, but a bike ridden again after walking in these old shoes I talked about for a lifetime on an unpredictable road,” she wrote, adding that, this time around, she feels “confident now, and I was not afraid of everything that had held me back as a girl.”

She believes “Porn gave me that.”