Skins star Megan Prescott has revealed how she first began using OnlyFans – which she is using to fund her Edinburgh Fringe Festival show this year.
The actress, 32, explained how she has been using the X-rated platform since 2020, after her boss initially refused to furlough her from her bar job.
Speaking to The Sun, Megan spoke about how she is stripping off in her one-woman show, Really Good Exposure, where she will be full-frontal during one scene.
Megan said that funding the show is ‘very expensive’ so she has been ‘selling nude photos to a few subscribers because you shouldn’t be ashamed of being naked.’
When the pandemic hit, Megan was working in a distillery in London on a zero-hour contract and her manager ‘refused to furlough her for a while’.
Skins star Megan Prescott has revealed how she first began using OnlyFans – which she is using to fund her Edinburgh Fringe Festival show this year
The actress, 32, explained how she has been using the X-rated platform since 2020, after her boss initially refused to furlough her from her bar job
She explained that with only around £300 in the bank she needed to find a way to pay her rent, when her friend Haven – who co-hosts the podcast Strippers In The Attic – suggested OnlyFans as a way of earning an income.
She continues: ‘She said to me, “Trust me, there are already men that are looking at your Instagram and thinking those kinds of thoughts. You’re leaving money on the table,” and she was right.
Megan claimed that joining the site changed her life and she branded it the best thing she has ever done, earning her much more than her acting roles.
Megan previously revealed she will sell her ‘full frontal, head-to-toe naked’ photos on the X-rated subscription site as the play challenges stigma faced by sex workers.
Megan, who pursued a bodybuilding career in 2016, is a vocal advocate for sex worker rights and first signed up to OnlyFans during the pandemic to enable her acting, writing, and directing career to continue.
In a knowing nod to the show that made her famous, Megan has chosen to pay homage to one of her most iconic Skins images, but this time, posing entirely unclothed.
Megan turned to OnlyFans to fund her new one-woman theatre show, Really Good Exposure at the Edinburgh Fringe
The actress found fame alongside her twin sister as Katie and Emily Fitch on series three of hit show Skins back in 2009
Only 10 of this limited-edition nude snap will be sold on the platform to raise money.
Megan’s one-woman show is partially inspired by her own personal experience of child stardom.
The play follows the story of Molly Thomas, a former child star whose fame peaked in her teens; audiences will first meet her later down the line as she realises her career has never matched the dizzying heights of her initial fame.
Standing on the edge of her 30s, Molly looks towards the adult industry as a way to keep food on the table when acting work continually isn’t paying her bills. But will the stigma that comes with sex work be too hard to handle?
The show comes after Megan revealed that she has been diagnosed with autism last year.
The Skins star took to Instagram last April where she got candid about her experience in a lengthy post.
She admitted that pretending to be neurotypical made her ‘exhausted, anxious and depressed,’ as she called for more conversations about women with autism.
Megan insisted that autism ‘isn’t a superpower’ but could be a ‘gift’ if the world were more accessible to neurodiverse individuals.
In a knowing nod to the show that made her famous, Megan has chosen to pay homage to one of her most iconic Skins images, but this time, posing entirely unclothed
Megan penned: ‘In December 2021 I was diagnosed as autistic. Since then I’ve been slowly getting comfortable with explaining this to people I know, but I’ve been nervous to say anything on here about it because of how badly misunderstood autism in women is by most people.
‘There are still members of my family that I haven’t told about my diagnosis because I know the response will be pretty upsetting.
‘When I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago, telling people didn’t feel as nerve wracking as telling everyone I’m autistic feels and I think because despite ADHD in women still being misunderstood, there is at least starting to be a decent amount of resources available for people to learn more about it. The same can’t be said for autism in women
‘When I’ve told people I am autistic, the response I’ve got most often is something along the lines of ”Well everyone’s on the spectrum a bit” – which, although it might be well-intentioned, is a pretty s**t response to someone telling you they’re autistic.
‘Firstly, that response sounds like you’re trying to console the autistic person by saying ”don’t feel bad, we’re all a bit like that” which implies that not only is autism a bad thing, but it also completely invalidates the struggles that that autistic person may have experienced throughout their life.’
Megan explained how some people downplay her diagnosis as if it’s ‘not a big deal because it’s something everyone experiences and you’re just not as good at dealing with it.’
She continued: ‘Autism also isn’t a ‘superpower.’ We live in a society that is constructed from the ground up for people with neurotypical brains.
The play follows the story of Molly Thomas, a former child star whose fame peaked in her teens; audiences will first meet her later down the line as she realises her career has never matched the dizzying heights of her initial fame
Megan pursued a bodybuilding career in 2016 (pictured)
The show comes after Megan revealed that she has been diagnosed with autism last year
‘I do believe that autism COULD be a ‘gift’ IF the world we lived in was made accessible to neurodiverse people.
‘However, almost all of the structures, systems and social ‘rules’ that we live by have been created by and for neurotypical people and don’t allow for the vast differences in how neurodiverse minds work.’
The actress expressed her wish that there were ‘more conversations about autism in women’ while explaining that most ‘of the diagnostic criteria involved in autism assessment is based on research done exclusively on men’.
Megan concluded: ‘In true me style, I will of course be talking about this a LOT; partly because I am incredibly self-involved, but also because there is such a lack of information and support out there for autistic women and I would like to at least add my two cents worth.’
