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The OnlyFans boom has created a new classs of millionaires floating around Los Angeles.
The models, aspiring actresses and businesswomen who rose to prominence on the ubiquitous site are LA's latest movers and shakers and in an LA Times profile, three such women provide insight into what their seven-figure lifestyles look like and how they view their burgeoning empires.
Each of the women boasts at least one million followers on Instagram and ranks in the top percentages of OnlyFans creators.
They come from disparate backgrounds but have each found incredible financial success on the adult website.
For Casey Boonstra, a native Australian who lost her TV-industry job when the pandemic began and had limited employment options because of the nature of her visa, OnlyFans became her source of income during a desperate moment.
Casey Boonstra, 30, turned to OnlyFans when she lost her job at the beginning of the pandemic and had limited options for income because of her Austrlian visa
Carly Lawrence launched her OnlyFans simultaneously with her reality TV career - she soon came to learn which would be the greater source of income
Posting to OnlyFans, unlike say, being a barista, qualifies as modeling, which was the category of Boonstra's O-1 visa.
It went so well that she hasn't looked back since.
Once an aspiring TV host, Boonstra, 30, found her new gig presented her with a much more financially stable life.
She told the Times she was able to splurge on a Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet - the starting prices for which are about $4,500 and climb quickly thereafter.
She only flies businessclass home to see her family in Australia and pays $5,000 a month for a Hollywood highrise apartment.
'I feel like I’m living the dream looking out my window and seeing the Hollywood sign,' she said.
Her nights are filled with concerts played by the industry's biggest stars, which she watches from the owner's suite, in addition to reservations at some of LA's trendiest restaurants.
She also pumps thousands and thousands of dollars into her appearance in the form of person training sessions, private gym memberships, working with a stunt trainer twice a week, and expensive hair treatments and wigs to keep her brown tresses long and healthy.
She is also investing in what she hopes will one day be an acting career - she sees a private acting coach twice a week.
Boonstra pays an ungodly sum to keep her physique in tip-top shape. She works out seven times a week and twice on some days
'I feel like I’m living the dream looking out my window and seeing the Hollywood sign,' she said of her Hollywood highrise apartment
Before her reality TV launch, Lawrence was a bartender who 'had done some modeling,' which she says she didn't like
Desiree Schlotz, 26, a midwesterner, said she was early to OnlyFans, but only found real success on the site when she relaunched her profile in 2020
Carly Sutherland Lawrence, an LA-transplant from Canada, appeared on an early season of the Netflix COVID hit 'Too Hot to Handle,' before she pivoted to fulltime adult content creator.
Before her reality TV launch, she was a bartender who 'had done some modeling,' which she says she didn't like.
Just before she went to film the show - on which contestants spend very little time fully clothed - her manager advised her to make an OnlyFans to leverage into business deals.
Lawrence, a blonde bombshell, who has 1.1million Instagram, currently resides in a $6,000 a month two-bedroom apartment in West Hollywood.
She at one point lived in a house in the Valley, but when it was robbed and she lost, among other things her brand new Christian Dior saddle bag, she decided a high rise was the most secure option. She now says she won't live in a house outside a gated community.
'I'm saving up.'
Like Boonstra, Lawrence, 26, says one of her favorite restaurants in LA is Catch - a lounge-y spot with locations in Las Vegas, New York, and Aspen.
But when it comes to her other spending habits, despite raking in a dollar amount that places her firmly in the 'one-percent,' she tries to be more careful.
For her groceries: 'I don't buy organic,' she said. 'I'll be honest. I could never justify going somewhere like Erewhon.'
For her workouts, she pays $36 three times a week for pilates and works out at the gym in her building. She said she used to have a personal trainer, 'but it was just too expensive.'
'I live in my head like I’m broke. That’s what keeps me saving money. If I live lavishly, I will spend all my money. I have such an addictive personality, I will spend all of my money,' she explained.
She also treats herself to a weekly massage, and maintains her mental health with regular therapy sessions.
Occasionally, she lands in Vegas to play high-roller for a night.
'I get free rooms because I spend so much on gambling. I will spend at least $5,000 in one night when I go.'
In terms of diversifying her revenue streams, Lawrence is hoping her $50,000 investment in a perfume company she's launching will pay dividends.
The signature scent she's developed is 'a vanilla, sexy, woodsy perfume.'
It's made in America and fulfills her current goal of making 'something that's mine.'
Though she perhaps has the funds to, Lawrence prefers to safeguard her earnings by splurging less on items she feels she doesn't need - though she sometimes jets in to Vegas for a night of gambling
Now, she's launching a signature perfume, which she hopes will ultimately pay dividends
Desiree Schlotz, 26, a midwesterner, said she was early to OnlyFans, but only found real success on the site when she relaunched her profile in 2020.
When she came to LA as an aspiring model she found it was more difficult to find a stable day-job than it had been in Minnesota.
She worked a minimum wage job at Sephora until her online career began taking off.
Now, the seven-digit earner with a penchant for travel, has a three-bathroom apartment on the border of Beverly Hills.
'Three bathrooms is kind of a lot but I wanted to splurge' following her prior cramped living situation.
The spacious, $6,000 a month pad has unlocked her love for interior design - an interest she would not have been able to pursue without her OnlyFans income.
Just like Lawrence, Schlotz is saving to buy a house. Her family, she said 'are huge farmers,' so she'd like something with 'a huge backyard' and room for multiple dogs.
Her current digs aren't so bad though, and neither is her ride.
'When I first started making real money from Only Fans, I bought a 2020 BMW 3 Series. Recently, I traded that in for a 2023 BMW X3,' she said.
She's also a self-described 'basic b**ch,' who goes 'to Erewhon a lot.'
The quality of the food at the comically expensive grocery store is unrivaled, she said.
Unlike Lawrence, she said, 'I really started understanding this whole organic thing when I moved to LA.'
Schlotz is a travel fiend, so much so that despite her impressive earnings, her accountant has told her to cool it on the jetsetting
Her workout regimen is also costly - though not so much as Boonstra's
Her workout regimen is also costly - though not so much as Boonstra's.
Her additional splurging comes in the form of expensive skin care regimens that require upkeep, Botox, facials, and the like.
She is also invested in her swimwear brand - Celestial Swim - which she's pumped $200,000 into. She is also the face of the brand, which she hopes will take off in a big way in a few years.
'I remember writing in my journal: “I’m gonna be a millionaire, I’m going to be a CEO.” To actually see that come to fruition is so insane and still mind-boggling to me,' she said.
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