Model Lola Hale Banks $120K Per Month After Trading Lingerie for Hiking Boots & Creating Content

Her audience didn't want just another fantasy.

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Published Nov. 28 2025, 4:11 p.m. ET

Model Lola Hale Banks $120K Per Month After Trading Lingerie for Hiking Boots & Creating Content
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Lola Hale (https://hoo.be/lolahalee) can start a fire faster than most men she knows. That's not a metaphor for her OnlyF--- success, though it could be. It's a literal skill she picked up while living out of her pickup truck, the same vehicle where she films star-gazing content that recently made her more money in a single month than most Americans earn in years.

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Here's what everyone thinks they know: s-x sells online, and the more skin you show, the bigger the paycheck. Lola built a following doing exactly that, but then she did something that should have tanked her income. She put on hiking boots, grabbed a backpack and pointed her camera at redwood trees instead of lingerie.

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Her first $100K month came immediately after.

Within seven days of rebranding to outdoor adventure content, one hiking reel hit 1.3 million views on a brand-new Instagram account. Her vlog visiting Muir Woods' ancient giants landed on OnlyF---' homepage. She cleared $120,000 that month, not from doing less, but from doing more of what nobody expected would work: showing what she calls the "less s-xy, more rugged" parts of her life.

Her audience didn't want just another fantasy. They wanted someone real enough to teach them how to start a campfire, confident enough to dive into a lake at dawn, and honest enough to admit her perfect date involves a pickup truck bed and no dinner reservation. Now she’s stopped performing a narrow version of desirability and started broadcasting actual desire: for wilderness, freedom, solitude and adventure.

The outdoor recreation industry is worth $1.2 trillion, according to the Outdoor Industry Association, but until now, it's been weirdly sanitized of s-xuality. Meanwhile, adult content platforms have been claustrophobic with bedroom settings.

But not for long. Hale found the elusive space between these worlds, and she’s moved in with a tent and a tripod.

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