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Instagram 'Devil Baby' and footballer stalker Orla Sloan rejected her hippy childhood and launched her 'trashy' OnlyFans career from the bedroom of a tired £290,000 semi in Exeter she shares with her reiki therapist mother, MailOnline can reveal today.

Sloan grew up in Devon with her bohemian parents with one family friend claiming that the once 'lovely' girl transformed her life, and looks, for the worse over the past five years after being consumed by a desire for 'social media attention'.

A schoolgirl at a Steiner School in Totnes, favoured by trendy liberal middle class parents, she had had dark, almost black hair, throughout her childhood - but then went blonde and appears to have had cosmetic surgery. 

The hippie-tinged wardrobe and hoodies were also discarded for sexualised gear more fitting to an aspirational football WAG since joining Instagram in 2018 as a teenager and TikTok and OnlyFans more recently.

'It's simply extraordinary and quite upsetting what's happened to Orla,' a friend told MailOnline . 'She was lovely when she was a girl, very bright and friendly, musical, generally talented. But once she got into her late teens she seems to have been seduced by the need for social media attention. 

'And she changed into this vamp character who was all about getting people to look at her. It's amazing how she's changed. And frankly it's pretty trashy. And now it's all gone horribly wrong.'

Sloan, who has 81,000 Instagram followers, boasted in an interview last April that she had made £50,000 streaming videos of herself eating Percy Pig sweets in the nude. 

In contrast her LinkedIn says she works as a 'kitchen porter' in a Devon fish restaurant. And her love of the sea is clear, regularly posting photos of herself in her swimsuit on lavish trips out Bali, Mykonos and Indonesia.

After her conviction yesterday, she faces jail for stalking Mason Mount, his Chelsea team mate Ben Chilwell and Scotland international Billy Gilmour, who she falsely claimed to have fallen pregnant by.

There is a curious disconnect between two social media profiles of Orla Sloan, the self-styled ‘Devil Baby’. 

There is a curious disconnect between two social media profiles of Orla Sloan, the self-styled ‘Devil Baby’ who faces jail for stalking a trio of Chelsea footballers.

On Instagram, the 22-year-old is a glamorous jet setter with 82,000 Instagram followers regularly posts sexy selfies on apparently lavish trips out in London, Bali, Mykonos and Indonesia - and streaming videos of herself eating Percy Pig sweets in the nude.

Sloan previously told her 18,000 TikTok followers that she had received a life ban from Asda after posting a video of herself dancing in the aisles of the supermarket in a bikini. 

She also uploaded a video of herself miming the words to a song: 'I don't give a f***', alongside a caption that read: 'When he starts talking about how much money he has' - hinting that she is not interested in how wealthy her potential male suitors are. 

But over on LinkedIn - the site that focuses on work rather than play - she has just one follower.

And that single person has not reacted to her single status update when she revealed she was working as a lowly kitchen porter in Rockfish restaurant in her home city of Exeter.

She does not seem to have returned to the site to update it that she was later working as shop assistant in a local branch of Marks and Spencer - a regular job she claims to have abruptly walked out on to become a model, a role in which she claims to have made £50,000 in just four months.

Sloan now describes herself online as a brand ambassador for cheap clothes label Fashion Nova.

But like so much about Sloan, there are major questions over how much of this is real and how much is artifice created to grow that Instagram follower number, increase her credibility as a so-called influencer - and help her get access to genuinely rich and glamorous people.

People like her victims, England footballers Mason Mount and Ben Chilwell and their Scotland counterpart Billy Gilmour.

Sloan lives in a tired, three bedroomed semi-detached home worth £290,000 with her mother, Katrina Sheehan.

She was the eldest of three children born to bohemian couple Tim Sloan and Katrina, born in 2001, just a year after their marriage.

Her first name is thought to be a nod to her mother’s Irish heritage. Orla was soon followed by siblings Penelope and Hamish.

She grew up in Buckfastleigh, close to Totnes, a Devon town famed for its hippie fringe and eccentrics, and her education seems to have followed this spirit - she attend a Steiner school, famed for letting children run free to find their own route through life rather than being regimented or disciplined.