Former Disney star says she receives ‘more respect’ for porn career

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the former Disney star, who found fame while starring as Rachel McQuire in the later seasons of the beloved ‘90s TV show, “Boy Meets World,” opened up about her transition from child actress to adult film star and the “empowerment” she feels to this day. “I really think people treat me with more respect now, honestly, especially even in Hollywood right now,” said Ward. “I’m pitching my memoir into a TV format and talking with people.

They’re so respectful, and they’re so positive about my story, especially younger people and different people that I speak to in Hollywood and stuff.

They’re just much more receptive to the story. And I really feel like I have a lot of positivity around it. I’m able to create my own brand, my own content, the way I want to create it.”“I didn’t get anybody coming out hating me for it or anything,” she added of her decision to pursue pornography. “I really got a lot of positivity overall, which shocked everyone I knew.

Everybody thought people were just going to rip me apart, and I was going to be judged and raked across the coals, but I got so much positivity and I think it’s because I was so positive about it, and I was so happy about it.”Ward, who first starred as Jessica Forrester in “The Bold and the Beautiful” from 1994 until 1996, made waves when she appeared on “Boy Meets World” in the late ’90s. “I was received very well, they were very nice to me,” Ward told Fox News Digital in 2022. “It was an odd thing to walk into a set that had been such a well-oiled machine and where they had grown up on the show.