“I really feel this is a movement, and I couldn’t be happier. “I finally feel as though I can express myself freely without the worry of what other people think,” she said. She recently launched her own personal website where subscribers pay a monthly fee to view exclusive adult content and interact with her.Ĭoffey said the new venture was the best decision she’s ever made and “empowers me to motivate other women to not limit themselves in fear of others’ opinions.” “Wherever we see a swell, we sort of go, ‘All right, let’s go and pack up and go chase these waves.’” “For the most part, I live at Crescent Head, but being a surfer - camping and fishing and surfing every day - it sort of creates spontaneous adventures, chasing waves up and down the east coast of Australia,” she said. And I know a lot of girls in the industry who have a very similar story.”Ĭoffey, whose childhood was spent living in a camper with her family on Australia’s east coast, still surfs but hasn’t taken part in competitions since 2017. I couldn’t continue with all the abuse it almost drove me to suicide, and I was lucky to go get that therapy and recover from it. “As much as I loved surfing, I just completely broke down. The managers and the people in positions of power really abuse that to, not just me, but a lot of girls. Meeting her hundreds of siblings, she’s shocked to find only two are female. It follows the life of Julia Bechly, whose dad confesses to using his own sperm during his career as a IVF specialist. It goes back decades, this misogyny and male-dominated industry - it’s really toxic. Another of Netflix’s homegrown Australian hits, Sisters began life on Network Ten before making the jump to the streaming giant in 2018. “I really don’t feel that anyone’s come forward and really highlighted the things about the surfing industry. “It was absolutely devastating the abuse that I had to face … so I’m just glad that I was able to come out of it stronger and better than ever, to be honest. “A lot of that kind of stuff is coming to light at the moment, and I’ve never really shared that before with anyone - only my close family and friends know it,” Coffey said.
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She felt empowered to speak out in the wake of the Me Too movement. Ellie-Jean Coffey (25 November 1994) is an Australian model, softcore actress and professional surfer. Spirit fingers | jazz hands 👐🏼 📸 post shared by Ellie-Jean Coffey on at 9:10pm PDTĬoffey underwent “extensive, intensive therapy” as a young adult and says she has been able to recover from the trauma that “almost drove me to ending my life.”
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