MAFS 2023 bride Bronte Schofield has revealed that it was actually her mum who suggested that she join the adult content-sharing platform OnlyFans.
The reality star joined the site back in June 2023, just a few months after her season of Married At First Sight Australia finished airing.
While it’s the career direction that a number of former MAFS stars have taken, like Domenica Calarco, Olivia Frazer and Hayley Vernon, Bronte said it was her mother’s idea to join OnlyFans.
“My parents were the ones who told me to do it!” she told Yahoo Lifestyle Australia. “They’re like, with the housing crisis and everything that’s going on at the moment, the way to get ahead is to be doing something like this… so many reality stars do it, so many celebrities do it and they make really good money and set themselves up.
“My mum was like ‘Bronte, you’re not gonna have this body and you’re not gonna look like this forever’. So she goes, ‘If I was your age and I needed to make some money in a year I’d do it.'”
How much has Bronte made on OnlyFans?
Like many other MAFS stars turn OnlyFans creators, Bronte has earned bank on the platform.
“The money is freaking great,” she said. “My first month, my account did $250,000, it was insanity and I was hardly even posting on there.”
Bronte explained that she doesn’t necessarily need to post nude photos to get subscribers.
“It’s the freedom I’ve always wanted and it’s not what everyone thinks it is. I get photos of people wanting to see my belly button or my feet. You don’t have to sell yourself completely to make money,” she said.
“If you can accept and get through the backlash of being on OnlyFans you can get through anything. It’s $700 for my belly button, I’m like, that’s rent paid!”
The former MAFS bride said that she used a lot of her OF funds to start her new bikini label, Lolë Swim.
“It’s never been something that I wanted to do full-time. It’s funded my new business, so now that I’ve got my swimwear label with my best friend Lauren, that’s something that’s been a dream of mine for pretty much most of my twenties.
“If you can accept and get through the backlash of being on OnlyFans you can get through anything. It’s $700 for my belly button, I’m like, that’s rent paid!”
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