

Her profile on sugar baby dating site Seeking Arrangement was uncovered as well, and she was publicly branded as a homewrecking whore. Thus, the media flurry came on hard and fast, and overnight, the whole country learned her name, her face and the fact that she was bold enough to sext with a married politician. But a team of reporters at BuzzFeed got ahold of her name and published it, thrusting her into the public eye before she had a chance to prepare.īy that point, people had already been ravenously consuming stories of Weiner’s many misbehaviors, and they were hungry for a new character to fixate upon. Feeling that outing him was the right thing to do - Weiner was married and on the precipice of heading up the country’s largest city - she anonymously leaked the sexts to the now-defunct gossip site The Dirty. If the name Sydney Leathers sounds familiar, it’s because it was repeatedly dragged through the tabloids in 2013 after it was revealed she’d been sexting with Anthony Weiner, then the front-runner of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. This is a stark contrast to what she endured in her early 20s. “I’d say the past two years have been the best time of my life,” she says. She feels somewhat guilty saying it, but despite the pandemic and the state of the world, life’s been good lately.

Together, the trio live a relatively quiet, relaxed life somewhere in the Midwest, where Leathers is working remotely as a community manager for adult industry-focused blockchain company SpankChain. Leathers, tan and plush-featured with delicate pink streaks running through her brunette hair, now has a second cat, a six-year-old named Seymour, whom she’s had for a year. “To be a young woman and go through a sex scandal like that… I felt I had to survive. “This is going to sound nuts, but he’s the reason I didn’t kill myself,” Leathers tells me. And so, for the first few weeks she had him, she woke up every three hours to feed him with a bottle. When she found him, he was just a sick baby roughing it alone in an alley. The black, short-haired feline has borne witness to it all - the scandal, the aftermath, the porn years, the newfound stability, even the batches of foster kittens Leathers has mothered in between.

Sydney Leathers might not be here if not for a 13-year-old cat named Oliver.
