has turned her back on and instead made the move into the adult entertainment industry. The actress made her TV debut as Jessica Forrester on and rose to prominence after playing Rachel McGuire on . However, Maitland moved into the porn industry in 2019 and hasn't looked back since.
In an exclusive interview with The Mirror US, Maitland explained the . "It expanded my career, it showed me things that I never thought I could do myself and I was liberated," she said. She added: "Porn liberated me from Hollywood.
Porn did liberate me from that form of Hollywood that I was trapped in, that Disney-esque thing from the early 2000s and the 90s that really boxed you in to a certain type of thing. "Like they wanted to use you for a period of time and then to keep you there forever, for the rest of your life and this really did liberate me from that box." Maitland admitted that her career in porn was a "slow progression".
She explained how she started off by sharing racy snaps on Instagram. Maitland told us: "I did a lot of cosplay and I love doing that, I did Comic Con and I’d wear sexy outfits and wear little bikinis, but I'd be flagged on Instagram and different platforms for nothing, people would complain because I was too sexy." She continued: "That was frustrating for me and then my fans were like, why don't you just sell content so you can do what you want and I thought, 'Oh that's a way to make a little extra money for costumes or photos or whatever' and then I signed up for .