Healthcare worker who became porn star speaks out about awkward way her family found out

A healthcare worker who became a porn star has opened up about the awkward way her family found out what she was doing.

Serenity Cox was named Pornhub’s 'Amateur Model of the Year' for 2023 after entering the adult industry in her mid-30s.

The woman from Toronto, Canada, has racked up over 500 million views for her steamy content with it all starting when she and her husband wanted ‘to spice things up in the bedroom’.

Now 40 years old, Cox appeared on the Holly Randall Unfiltered podcast to speak about her journey from an emergency room nurse to being one of the biggest amateur creators.

Serenity Cox started doing porn in her mid 30s (Instagram/@serenitycox.official)

The star admitted it was ‘a little bit more challenging’ when it came to telling her family rather than her friends.

“They didn’t find out from me, they found out through other sources,” she said.

Cox explained it’s ‘always received a lot better’ when she’s able to talk to someone and they get to hear her side of it.

“But when somebody who doesn’t expect that from me finds it on the internet or through somebody else, especially somebody in my parents’ generation, they create a story of what exactly that is that’s happening that’s not necessarily the real story,” she added.

The 40-year-old has won awards for her content (Instagram/@serenitycox.official)

Cox went on to talk about how it ‘infuriates’ her that people often ‘blame’ her husband.

“Because obviously I’m a woman, I can’t decide to be a sexual being, right?” she slammed. “It must be my husband who’s forcing me to do these things with other men or film it.

“There was a lot of that and I had to challenge a lot of those opinions on what we did.”

She explained how despite her mum and her having ‘always being really close’ they had never really had conversations about sex and that side of their lives.

“So I was forced to,” Cox said. “I laid it all out for her - my poor, mortified mother. But it was so healthy because after that, she was like ‘I get it, I understand’.

“And we’ve had some really interesting conversations and some really healthy and progressive conversations in the last couple of years since then.”

Cox added that she’s ‘really proud’ of how far her mum has come and that she’s ‘cautiously’ said she’s proud of her daughter too.

Having previously ‘balanced’ working in health care and in the adult industry, she’s currently not working as a nurse. But she doesn’t think she’s ‘out of the nursing game for life’.

“I don’t think I will ever go back to full-time shift work again ever in my life, but I will go back to health care in some way,” Cox added.