American Pie star Shannon Elizabeth and Harry Potter actor Jessie Cave have both found an audience on OnlyFans. Singer Kate Nash also used the platform to help pay for touring, showing how some performers now rely on direct fan support to keep other parts of their careers moving.
Even with about 180,000 followers on TikTok and another 108,000 on Instagram, that online attention has not removed the need for another income stream. Reyes launched OnlyFans as a side job while trying to build their music career and continue acting.
Reyes then made clear that OnlyFans is helping for now rather than replacing their long-term goal. They added: “Anyway would LOVE for ya’ll to support and check out my music so that I can quit doing the other thing.”
The same pattern has appeared around other former child stars and influencers. Some creators have gained large numbers of subscribers as soon as they became adults, with at least one former child influencer making millions after opening an account on her 18th birthday.
Fame can create an audience without creating a stable income
Appearing in a major movie can leave an actor recognizable for decades, but it does not guarantee regular pay. A child performer may become linked to one popular role while spending years auditioning, making music, or taking unrelated jobs between projects.
Social media adds another confusing part to that situation. Hundreds of thousands of followers can make someone look financially secure, yet likes and views do not always turn into enough money to support a career.
OnlyFans offers a direct way to charge an existing audience, which helps explain why it can earn more than music or acting in a short period. Reyes’ comment suggests that the financial result has come with mixed feelings because the work they most want people to support is still their music.
The former child actors have continued sharing major life updates long after the film ended. In 2025, two cast members married each other, 22 years after they first met while making the movie.
That history helps explain why updates about them continue to attract attention. Viewers who grew up with the former child stars remain interested in their careers, relationships, losses, and lives away from the film.
Public figures use OnlyFans for very different reasons
Reyes wants the platform to support their music until the music can support them. Other celebrities have joined to pay debts, promote a release, share niche content, or speak with fans without relying on a studio, label, or social network.
Not every celebrity account contains the same type of material. Some focus on nudity or adult content, while others offer feet, hair, backstage footage, personal updates, or access that would not fit on mainstream platforms.
The examples below show how differently famous users have approached OnlyFans. For some it became a major source of money, while others used it for one project and later stopped posting.
Other celebrities who have used OnlyFans
Lily Allen
Lily Allen joined OnlyFans in 2024 with an account focused on pictures of her feet. The ‘Smile’ singer said the idea came up after her pedicurist told her that users had given her feet a five-star rating on WikiFeet, a website where people upload and score celebrity foot photos.
Allen discussed the idea on the Miss Me? podcast and explained that her pedicurist believed there was money to be made from the interest. “[My pedicurist said I] could make a lot of money selling foot content on OnlyFans, and I’m like, ‘Not no’,” Allen said.
The unusual account matched her joking claim that she was ‘dipping her toes’ into the platform. It also gave her control over images that people had already been collecting and discussing elsewhere online.
Jessie Cave
Harry Potter actor Jessie Cave launched an OnlyFans page in 2025 aimed at subscribers with hair-based interests. Her content centers on her very long hair rather than the type of explicit material often linked with the platform.
Cave said the page would not be sexual. She described it as a way to explore a specific niche while also expanding the range of work available to her as a performer.
Drea De Matteo
Drea de Matteo joined OnlyFans in 2024 after her acting income declined. The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives star said the page made money fast enough to resolve a serious problem tied to the sale of her home. “I kept putting more pictures up. I was like, holy s**t. In five minutes, I was able to pay back Compass Real Estate who kept the sale of my house,” she told the New York Post.
Cardi B
Cardi B opened her OnlyFans account in 2020 while promoting ‘WAP’. Instead of using it only for explicit posts, the rapper planned to share extra material connected to the single and the work behind its music video.
She explained: “On my OnlyFans, I will be putting the [behind the scenes] of the music video — not only the day of that music video — but the whole process of it,”
Cardi also wanted subscribers to help shape the page, saying: “I want to know what my fans would like to see there — what type of content would they like you guys to see there. We will be talking about personal stuff… straight-up real-life content.” She has since stopped using the account, leaving the page as a short-lived part of the single’s promotion.
Bella Thorne
Former Disney Channel actor Bella Thorne produced one of the platform’s most publicized celebrity launches. She became the first OnlyFans creator to earn $1 million within 24 hours of opening an account.
Her existing fame gave her a large audience from the start, allowing her to reach the milestone before most new creators could build a subscriber base. The result also showed how much a recognizable name could be worth on a direct-payment platform.
Thorne no longer uses the account six years after joining. Like Cardi B, she treated OnlyFans as one stage of her public career rather than a permanent home for her content.