Half a million pounds a month.
That’s the figure some celebrities put on their OnlyFans earnings, and Nicola McLean isn’t buying it.
The former glamour model, 43, used an appearance on the Option One Podcast, hosted by Babestation, to take apart the numbers famous faces keep quoting.
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Her verdict ran to two words. “It’s b******t.”
What are you walking away with?
McLean’s problem isn’t the headline number.
It’s everything that comes off it before anyone sees a penny.
“You get celebrity females as well going, ‘I earn half a million pounds a month.’ It’s b******t,” she told the podcast.
“Then they’re giving half to the management, 20% to OnlyFans, 20% to the tax. What are you walking away with?”
She named names. Katie Price and Kerry Katona both came up, two stars who have spoken publicly about six-figure months.
“People will go on like Katie Price and Kerry Katona go on these programmes and they’re saying, ‘I earn a hundred grand a month,'” she said.
“Why do you feel the need to justify it?”
The £10,000 feet pics that never come
What worries McLean, who has 240,000 followers on Instagram, is who’s listening.
“I feel like people are lying about what they’re earning and that is a worry because then you get really normal girls going, ‘I’m gonna do feet on OnlyFans and earn £10,000 a month,'” she said.
Then a pause.
“And it’s not gonna happen.”
She’s careful to say she has no issue with how anyone chooses to earn.
Her point is about expectation, and about a generation of creators working without the limits she had during the Page 3 years.
“For us Page 3 girls, we could have boundaries,” she said.
“For me personally, mine was topless. That’s it.”
The agencies taking half
McLean saved some of her sharpest words for the management firms now running creators’ accounts.
Some of them, she said, are pocketing 50% of what the women make.
“I find that absolutely wild because they take 50% of the girls’ earnings,” she said.
Then there’s the question of who you’re actually talking to once you subscribe.
McLean isn’t impressed by the bots and outsourced messaging handling subscriber chat behind the scenes.
“If you’re subscribing and paying £10 a month but you’re talking to a bot, that’s rude,” she said.
“How is that legal?”
Why It Matters
The figure a creator posts has become marketing.
A big monthly number isn’t a flex, it’s recruitment, pulling in subscribers and copycats who assume the same money is sitting there waiting for them.
McLean is poking at the gap between the headline figure and the actual take-home, and that gap is where a lot of new creators quietly disappear.
OnlyFans now hosts millions of creators chasing the same subscriber spend, and the biggest names increasingly sit behind agencies, chat teams and automation most fans never see.
Whether the celebrities she named bother to respond is another matter.
The figures will keep landing in headlines regardless, and somewhere a girl is reading one and working out how many feet pics it takes to get there.
