Most men are super jealous and protective over their women, but not Maitland Ward’s husband.
Maitland Ward’s husband, Terry Baxter, championed her daring pivot to porn and eventually encouraged her to film scenes with other men.
“He saw a truth in me that I wasn’t going to cross the boundary of … getting with guys, basically,” the author, 45, said while promoting her new memoir, “Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood.”
Ward who became well known due to her role on ‘The Bold and Beautiful’ before playing Rachel McGuire on the Disney hit ‘Boy Meets World’, began sharing racy material years ago, posing in skimpy cosplay attire on social media and creating explicit content with women.
“The girl stuff, I’ve had a lot of fun with girls. That wasn’t really a bother at all to Baxter. A lot of guys like that,” says the redheaded beauty, who was delightfully shocked when her spouse proposed the idea of performing with men. “He saw that I had a lot of these fantasies.”
Ward made her porn debut filming ‘Drive’ in 2019. It was directed by esteemed porn veteran Kayden Kross, which featured a host of male entertainers. She has since worked with more, most recently in ‘Drift’.
The glossy five-part Vixen Media Group project, also helmed by Kross, sees Ward command authority while seducing the likes of X-rated actors Anton Harden and Alex Jones (no, not that one).
“My husband really was the one that came and, out of the blue said to me, “‘I see this in you. You really need to try this. You really wanna live out these fantasies,’”
She explains that his vital observation is what ultimately gave her the green light.
“I think it makes our relationship stronger,” Ward said happily.
Baxter, 47, a real estate agent in the Los Angeles area, used to help Ward capture content in the early days of her career transition. He was also by her side as she filmed her first hardcore sequence with a member of the opposite sex.
“At the end of it, the first one we did, nothing bad had happened. It was a controlled situation. I got to live out a fantasy, then it was done and we went back to our lives. So I really think that it solidified our trust in each other and also his faith in me,” she says, explaining how the experience only benefited their marriage.
“I felt really uplifted by that. It’s more of a connection there.”
Ward is grateful to her husband for recognizing her need for free expression after escaping mainstream Hollywood, an industry that made her feel extremely confined.
“So many men especially, women too, are very jealous and want to keep their partner in a box. And he knows that I had been in a box for so long in Hollywood,” says the Long Beach, Calif., native, who grew tired of playing the good girl next door, only sexualized when convenient for male TV execs.
“My husband really saw that if he held me back from any of this, he would be the one now keeping me in a box. And he knew how much that bothered me and how hard that was for so many years for me,” Ward continues. “I was finally emerging and I was having fun and I was successful, so he didn’t want to stop my trajectory. And I mean, hey, it went better than I could ever have imagined.”
The AVN Award winner says she is proud to be one of the highest paid women in porn today, equally revered for her on-camera talent as she is for her writing and producing capabilities.
Wards book “Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood” is in stores now.
She’s a WHORE, who cares.