London Andrews – Trail Blazer

London Andrews – Trail Blazer

I want to talk about about London and her Patreon work here on the blog, because it’s a fairly long post. This is because of a number of questions I’ve been asked recently. But first, we really need to acknowledge London's trail-blazing work, it is something we seem to be forgetting as her career fades due to her retirement from modelling a couple of years ago.

London was a trail-blazer for plus-size modelling when she started 20 years ago. It’s hard to believe that a girl with such striking beauty had difficulty getting work as a model. Because it was the age of the stick thin, super skinny size zero model. London was ‘plus-size’ only in this context !

To my mind, back when she started she was a normal sized girl, with a great figure and stunning features and such an ‘alive’ personality. Her artistic drive found something in modelling and to satisfy this, she had to work really hard, far harder than your average model, to break into the modelling industry, to change long held views about models and body types, she opened doors that allowed others to accepted by photographers and the modelling industry. She had to work so much harder within the industry than the conventional sized models of 20 years ago. To get work, to get noticed, to create imagine that would become London Andrews. She would also later become a very powerful trail-blazer for the ‘body positive’ movement.

Now back to Patreon. Since the end of November I shared photos from when she first started to use Patreon in 2014 and was finding her feet with it. She was also trying to rebuild her career after a very bad time personally. Her early Patreon was a bit haphazard, a random collect of older and current modelling from photographers she’d worked with. Along with photos she had taken herself, photos of herself out with friends and living her life, but more importantly, London's first attempts at self-shot modelling.

She was learning what worked and what didn’t work in these early albums and creating this material. I say this because the last set of the early Patreon photos I shared on the 8^th of December (B&W bra and jeans) were not actually taken has photos. They were from an experiment in making dance and erotic videos that she wasn’t satisfied with and just used some stills in an album.

By the start of 2015, London had trail-blazed a winning formula for Patreon, one that so many others would copy later. Providing a range of material within her Patreon. She did photo albums of glamour and nude work, along with videos of striptease style dancing. Through to full on erotic and porn photos and videos available across different pay tiers. This was when her career really relaunched and where she was in control of London's career and she could move away from relying others and deal with the modelling industry on her own terms. Because despite her talents within the glamour industry on both sides of the camera, she had come to a love/hate relationship with it. This was because of the physical, sexual and emotional abuse she had suffered within the industry in the first half of her career.

If you want to know the scale of the distress and emotional conflict she felt. I have often championed London's talent *behind* the camera. Twice London fell out with me when I said she should continue her career behind the camera, when she finished modelling*. (see note at end)

But Patreon gave her total control, it meant that she was making enough money, she didn’t need to work with other photographers. Something that one time she described to me as, ‘playing Russian roulette’, with her well-being. So, Patreon removed the risk. It also gave her ‘artistic satisfaction’ over the content she created, this was her work now, her vision and that gave her pleasure. Selling this work via Patreon meant that for once she was making good money, her talent was being rewarded. And I emphasise, her talent, because the bulk of the material, was her own work, self-shot creative modelling. There were times this talent could earn London the equivalent of the USA’s average yearly wage, in a single month ! This is why she went from renting a run down apartment to buying and renovating a house. And then to buy the farm where she established her animal sanctuary.

As I have documented, there have been some contentious events between myself and she has caused a great deal of hurt and trouble. And I darn say London probably still hates my guts.

Despite this, I do not begrudge her the success she had, in fact I praise it, nor begrudge the money I paid towards it. As to how much money London made ? She made a lot, enough for her to tell me in 2017, that she could actually stop modelling right there and then. She would just need a part time job, say free-lance internet or social media consultant for small local business in Rochester and that would help pay the bills, maintain the life style that she had in 2017. Living in her house, volunteering, travelling aboard a few times a year, she just had to keep going until she was 40. After that, she was sorted and in the clear, she had a financial device in place that meant she wouldn’t have to work. Because London was never just a pretty face with a great body. She was and is a smart and talented girl.

*Note – this was between 17 and 20 both times when it looked like retirement was imminent. She made it abundantly clear she never wanted any reminder or contact with the industry she was becoming to loath ! Some may recall when she first floated the idea of the farm sanctuary. She publicly and strongly, chewed me up for suggesting that she name it, ‘London's Farm.’

She made it very clear this had nothing to do with London. She wanted no reminders of what was to become, her past life as the model London Andrews.

She had hoped to make a clean break, end modelling, creating material for her OnlyFans and Patreon, then open the sanctuary. Events prevented this.

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