A bone fragment stopped less than a millimetre from Kasey Aims’ optic nerve.
She was in a coma at the time, so she didn’t know. She found out when she woke up.
Kasey, 33, spent nine weeks in hospital after a horse kicked her in the head while she was working at a yard. Her brain swelled.
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Doctors put her into a coma, drilled a drain into her skull, and operated. She has no memory of any of it.
The accident should have made her more cautious about everything.
Instead it made her braver.
The kick she can’t remember
Kasey was bringing two horses in from the field when it happened.
One was older, no shoes. The other was newer, bigger, a bit skittish.
Nobody saw the kick. She’s never known which horse did it.
“When something that traumatic happens to you, your brain blocks the memory, which is probably a good thing,” she said on the Option One Podcast, presented by Babestation.
The scar sits on her eyebrow. That’s the entry point.
She’s a former showjumper, so horses were her whole world before the accident.
They’re still around her, just at a slight remove now. “I’m not scared of horses, but I’m definitely more cautious around them,” she said.
The lasting damage is mostly migraines. There was double vision for a while, and glasses with one frosted lens to manage it. Small prices, given how close it came.
“I know I’ve cheated death”
Kasey didn’t learn the full detail until she recovered.
The surgery, the drain, the coma, all of it explained to her after the fact.
Then came the part about her optic nerve.
“One of the little fragments was less than a millimetre from my optical nerve,” she said.
“I know I’ve cheated death.”
Most people would take that as a reason to hold on tighter to whatever felt safe.
Kasey went the other way.
The career she’d been too scared to start
She’d wanted this for years. Not vaguely. Specifically.
“I kind of always wanted to be a stripper,” she said.
“I’d always wanted to be in the adult industry, but I just did not have the confidence. I was full of anxiety.”
She’d studied psychology and cyber psychology at university and then struggled to find work in the field.
At some point she booked a pole fitness class, mostly on a whim.
That was the turn.
“One day I thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to go to a pole fitness class.’ That was where it took off. I loved it.”
Pole led to stripping, stripping led to camming, and camming led to Babestation, the job she’d been putting off for most of her adult life.
The near-death experience was what finally moved her.
“It kind of made me realise life is short,” she said.
“What happened to me was such a freak accident. It does make you think life’s so short. Do what you want.”
Why It Matters
Kasey’s route into adult content follows a pattern that’s become common: a formal qualification, a stalled career in the field it was meant to open, and a pivot into a creator economy that rewards personality and self-direction over credentials.
The psychology degree didn’t lead to psychology work. Babestation did lead to a living.
The adult platform space has spent the last few years professionalising, with podcasts, in-house talent development and a public-facing content operation that looks more like a media company than an old-model cam site.
Creators like Kasey are both the workforce and the marketing.
She says the welcome is what kept her there early on. “Everyone here is so great,” she said.
“I was nervous, but everyone was just so lovely.”
She knows what people think. She’s decided it doesn’t count for much.
“People are going to judge you no matter what you do. You may as well do what you want. That’s exactly what I’m doing.”
