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Kayla Irving is one hardworking and persevering hustler. She is a local bartender and OnlyFans content creator. 

Most people know her by the name Kayla Ashley or pzzabooty, but to her seven-year-old son, she is mom. At 29 years old, Irving has built a life for herself and her son in our neck of these redwoods. She lives with her mom and her sister, who help take care of her son when needed. One of her best friends, Zach, has also taken on the dad role and takes her son on weekends.

Irving feels blessed to have such a strong support system. In her mind, it really does take a village to raise a child.

Born in Pleasanton, Irving grew up mostly in the East Bay Area. She moved to Humboldt in 2014 to be closer to her older sister, who is a tattoo artist at Sangha Tattoo Studio in Eureka.

Irving herself has an impressive collection of tattoos, the first of which she got when she was 18. It depicts a compass with flowers and a banner that reads “hasta mañana.” Since then she has gotten passionate about collecting more. 

“I plan to be fully covered in the next five years,” Irving said.

Before becoming a bartender and starting her OnlyFans account, Irving struggled. Her first gigs were at McDonald’s and Target, all while being a full-time student. After a short while, she left those jobs behind and started working with a vacation rental company by day and by night she was a dancer at The Tip Top Club. 

“I was working at The Tip Top for a couple years and when the club closed due to the pandemic I feel like a lot of dancers turned to OnlyFans as an alternate route for work,” Irving said.

Irving started bartending right after the summer of 2020, without any experience. Thankfully, one of her best friends put in a good word for her, and she quickly found herself behind the bar at Vista Del Mar in Eureka.

She also works as a bartender at weddings and parties when the opportunities present themselves. Her easygoing nature and ability to make people feel comfortable have made her an instant favorite with customers.

After losing income with the temporary closure of The Tip Top Club, creating an OnlyFans account was a decision she felt like she needed to make, but also one she wanted to make.

Three years later, she describes it as a fun, empowering job.

“Honestly, OnlyFans is a lot easier for me because there is no physical demand,” Irving continued said. “I can make content at my own pace and on my own time. I don’t have to spend hours in a club trying to compete for people’s attention.”

If you are not familiar with OnlyFans, it’s a website that allows people to create content and sell it as a subscription service. Often, OnlyFans is used to create and sell sexually explicit content. Though it sounds simple, it can be demanding in its own right. Like other subscription services, there has to be a reason to justify the recurring payments. In Irving’s case, she has to continuously create content and engage with her audience.

Alongside her two main gigs, Irving also creates her own merchandise — things like stickers, posters, magnets, shirts and hoodies with designs and pictures of herself. She also recently signed with a modeling group called Sundae Girls. This summer she plans to create more content with other creators and photographers.

This type of collaboration has sometimes been difficult for her considering that she suffers from a condition called body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).

Irving says having BDD is like having anxiety on top of anxiety, and it has had a significant effect on her content career. She has missed out on traveling for model calls and photo shoots because of it. 

“Some days I look in the mirror and I can’t find a single thing I like about myself. The longer I look the worse it gets,” Irving said. “But this year I’m branching out. I’m going to step out of my comfort zone and really give myself a chance while I can because it’s my dream. And what’s living if you’re just living to survive?”

All this hustling makes Irving’s schedule hectic. 

She starts each day by taking her son to school and then heading to the gym. After the gym, she gets herself ready and creates new content for OnlyFans, all before returning home. Then she bartends through the evening.

Thursdays are her worst nights because she averages three hours of sleep between getting home and readying her son for school the following morning. On days when she works a day shift at the bar she skips making content and spends the evening with her son.

With such a structured routine, Irving makes sure to spend all the time she can with her son outside of working and school. Going forward, Irving hopes to work with at least three new photographers, attend her modeling group’s beach event in southern California this summer and create her own website.

Irving’s personal goals include taking her son and her partner’s son to Disneyland and Nintendo World this October.

“I’ll never stop hustling. For him, for us. I’m constantly setting goals and making sure they’re realistic and I work hard to crush them,” Irving said.