My fellow air hostesses criticized me for taking up stripping on the side, but they were involved in much worse themselves.

Skye Taylor, 48, a former air hostess whose life changed after signing up as a stripper and adult model to make ends meet, has recalled feeling shunned by her airline colleagues. Skye spent 17 years in a corporate role for Virgin Atlantic, ultimately leaving due to fatigue and insomnia, before taking up pole dancing in 2013 for additional income. She later started doing adult modeling when flights were canceled because of the pandemic.

**Glamorous Skye Taylor now leads a much different life** (Image: skye_taylor_xx/Instagram)

Skye told Daily Star how some friends who are cabin crew said nasty things about her offering as she claimed they “behaved much worse themselves”. I said, “Because I kept my professional world far away from everything else I did and certainly never slept with anyone where I worked,” and the skinny girl gushed, The judgment still surprised me, particularly from some who I knew did not always follow those same beliefs themselves.

**The mum says she now earns much more money than she did as a flight attendant** (Image: instagram.com/skye_taylor_xx)

Skye also exposed some instances of “hypocrisy” she’d seen during long stopovers, especially in Johannesburg, where crews would party hard. Hotel parties with the flight crews can get a bit “raunchy,” according to her; lots of aircrews will have affairs and have crazy celebrations. She joked, “Johannesburg was always the place for some reason; it must have been all the wine or the lack of oxygen. In one case, she turned back from what was becoming an organization; she laughed about that it was “not for me.”.

**She claimed things often got steamy in Johannesburg** (Image: instagram.com/skye_taylor_xx)

Skye also insisted that while she shared these glimpses behind the scenes, she was always ‘professional’ at work. “Did I sleep with a pilot—never. I was only ever professional. She said: “There were a lot of real gentlemen pilots and I still keep in touch with many of them.” Instead, Skye’s story is an allegory for the social strife simmering within the airline industry and the trouble with our expectations of pilots: that there’s little room for complicated lives in a profession where so many people feel entitled to judge their humanity.