Vine celebrity Jessica Vanessa quit her job as a kindergarten teacher, now makes six figures from twerking

IF YOU had any doubts that the end is nigh, this should put them to rest. A former kindergarten teacher has quit her job to twerk for a living.

IF ANYONE had any doubts that the world is coming to an end, this should put them to rest once and for all.

Forget about going to university and getting a job, kids. Now you can twerk for a living.

‘Jessica Vanessa’, a 22-year-old former kindergarten teacher from the US, has quit her job to pursue her lifelong dream of being “somebody big”.

For Ms Vanessa, that means becoming a social media celebrity. She’s been billed as the world’s “number one twerker” with more than two million followers on her Vine account.

“What I make in six seconds would have taken me four months to make [as a teacher],” she told Barcroft TV. “I bought a new car, paid it off in full and was able to get out of debt.”

That money is coming largely from advertisers, who pay her to mention their products. She doesn’t say how much she makes but it is reportedly “six figures”.

“People like to define twerking as you’re a whore if you do it,” she said. “No, it’s just a type of dance — that’s it. If you were open-minded you would understand that.”

Her family is very open-minded; her brother Joshua is her cameraman. “When it comes to my twerking they’re very open-minded people. They don’t look at it as degrading, they don’t look at it in disgust. They’re very supportive.”

Her father, Rafael Deleon, said he supports her 100 per cent. “Most people might consider twerking videos sexual, but I look at in a different light,” he said. “She’s just having fun.”

She even thinks her grandmother would approve. “She’s wild and crazy like me, so if I were to show her she would probably get excited and try to do it with me.”

Ms Vanessa claims she has received a lot of abuse and has suffered two breakdowns where she wanted to delete her social media accounts (she didn’t). “I get plenty of comments, rude comments, mean comments,” she said.

“At one point I was getting hate after hate and it really got to me. I remember I cried in my room — I didn’t have anybody to go to. I felt alone, like, how can I have 1.9 million followers and feel this alone?”

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Originally published as Vine celebrity Jessica Vanessa quit her job as a kindergarten teacher, now makes six figures from twerking