Contains adult themes: this story covers a podcast interview with an adult performer. Nothing explicit is described.
In brief: Gia OhMy returned to The Bougie Show, hosted by Xay the DJ, for an episode posted Oct. 31, four years after her first visit. She told the story of landing a Hustler cover after a photographer spotted her at a model house, described herself as a performer who prefers a slow pace, gave a shout-out to a coffee-funding subscriber in the UK, and the conversation turned to the May Pillow Talk party in Miami that WIRED reported drew industry backlash.
Some careers are built on hustle. Gia OhMy’s is built on Hustler, which is not the same thing, and she would like that on the record.
On her second appearance on The Bougie Show, the podcast hosted by Xay the DJ, the performer walked through the morning that got her a magazine cover, explained her philosophy of work (minimal) and thanked a man named Tom for breakfast. The episode went up Oct. 31. All quotes below were checked against the audio at the linked timestamps.
The cover story
She was staying at a model house, she said (6:20), when she learned a photographer was coming by the next morning to shoot for Hustler. “I like knew about it so I like made sure to get up early and like get cute and whatever,” she said. He was there for a different model. Then, in her telling, he saw her: “Of course he was like, this is a beautiful princess angel, she needs to be on Hustler” (7:01).
They gave her the cover. Asked if it was a good look, she said she has it framed on her wall. Getting up early, it turns out, was the hardest part of the job, and also the last time anyone will hear her recommend it.
The anti-hustle
Asked what had changed since her last visit, she said she had only just started flying out to Los Angeles to shoot. Why so late? “Cuz I’m not like a hard worker,” she said (2:18). Everyone told her to go to LA to make more and work more, she said, “and I was always just like, I like working at a slow pace.”
Later the host asked about work ethic, noting she clearly doesn’t like to do a lot of it. She didn’t argue. “I don’t want to like work really hard ever. Working really hard is not for me ever” (26:24). The host thanked her for her honesty. Few interviews produce a cleaner mission statement.
Tom from the UK
Asked what fans enjoy most, she said the girlfriend experience, and named a favorite subscriber, Tom, who lives in the UK (38:33). “He’s just like always like sending me money for coffee in the morning and he’ll tell me about his day and he’ll be like, I just made some steak and potatoes. Like it’s so pure.” She closed with a shout-out: “Shout out to you Tom out of the UK.” Somewhere in Britain, a man’s steak dinner has been immortalized on a podcast.
When the host suggested performers should get health care, the answer was immediate: “Yes, definitely” (39:44).
The Pillow Talk party
The episode also turned to the May 14 party in Miami sponsored by the podcast Pillow Talk, where, WIRED reported, the streamer Clavicular berated performers, attendees publicly criticized host Ryan Pownall for inviting him, and Pownall later apologized on Instagram. On the show (23:30), the host asked her about it. The audio is not split by speaker and the two talk over each other, so we’re not attributing individual lines to her; the conversation, though, did not land on Pownall’s side: “It was a slap in the face,” was said, twice, and the apology was dismissed in terms we won’t print.
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Collecting jewelry like infinity stones, a slow pace and a framed Hustler cover. Some people call that a lack of work ethic. Others call it a business model.