Skins star Megan Prescott reveals she turned to OnlyFans during the pandemic when her boss refused to furlough her bar job

Skins star Megan Prescott has revealed how she first started using OnlyFans – which she is using to fund her Edinburgh Fringe Festival show this year.

The 32-year-old actress explained how she has been using the X-rated platform since 2020, after her boss initially refused to fire her from her bar job.

Speaking to The Sun, Megan revealed how she strips down in her one-woman show, Very Good Exposure, where she will be full frontal during one scene.

Megan said financing the show is “very expensive,” so she “sells nudes to a few subscribers because you don’t have to be ashamed of being naked.”

When the pandemic hit, Megan was working at a distillery in London on a zero-hours contract and her manager ‘refused to fire her for a while’.

She explained that with only around £300 in the bank she had 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 to make a earn income.

She continues: ‘She said to me, ‘Trust me, there are already men looking at your Instagram and having thoughts like that. You’re leaving money on the table,’ and she was right.

Megan claimed that joining the site changed her life and she labeled it as the best thing she ever did, which gave her much more than just 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 piece challenges the stigma sex workers face.

Megan, who pursued a bodybuilding career in 2016, is an outspoken advocate for sex workers’ rights and first joined OnlyFans during the pandemic to fuel her acting, writing and directing career.

In a knowing nod to the show that made her famous, Megan has chosen to pay tribute to one of her most iconic Skins images, but this time she’s posing completely unclothed.

Only 10 of this limited edition nude photo will be sold on the platform to raise money.

Megan’s one-woman show was inspired in part by her own personal experience with child stardom.

The play follows the story of Molly Thomas, a former child star whose fame peaked in her teenage years; audiences will later meet her for the first time when she realizes that her career never matched the dizzying heights of her initial fame.

Molly is almost in her thirties and looks to the porn industry as a way to keep food on the table while acting doesn’t pay her bills all the time. But will the stigma associated with sex work be too difficult to deal with?

The show comes after Megan revealed last year that she had been diagnosed with autism.

The Skins star took to Instagram last April, where she opened up about her experiences in a lengthy post.

She admitted that pretending to be neurotypical left her “exhausted, anxious and depressed” as she called for more conversations about women with autism.

Megan emphasized that autism is “not a superpower” but could be a “gift” if the world were more accessible to neurodiverse individuals.

Megan wrote: ‘In December 2021 I was diagnosed as autistic. Since then, I’ve slowly started to feel comfortable explaining it to people I know, but I’ve been nervous about saying anything here because autism in women is so poorly understood by most people.

‘There are still members of my family who I have not told about my diagnosis because I know the reaction will be quite distressing.

‘When I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago, telling people didn’t feel as nerve-wracking as telling everyone I’m autistic, and I think that even though ADHD in women is still misunderstood, there are at least a decent form of ADHD is starting to emerge. amount of resources available for people to learn more about it. The same cannot be said for autism in women

‘When I tell people I’m autistic, the response I most often get is something along the lines of ‘Well, everyone is a bit on the spectrum’ – which, while it may be well-intentioned, is a nice comment. s**t response to someone telling you they are autistic.

“First, that response sounds like you’re trying to comfort the autistic person by saying, ‘Don’t feel bad, we’re all like that,’ which implies that autism is not only a bad thing, but also completely negates the struggles that that autistic person faces.” person has experienced throughout his life.’

Megan explained how some people downplay her diagnosis as if it’s “no big deal because it’s something everyone experiences and you’re just not very good at dealing with it.”

She continued, “Autism is not a “superpower” either. We live in a society built from the ground up for people with neurotypical brains.

‘I truly believe that autism COULD be a ‘gift’ IF the world we lived in was made accessible to neurodiverse people.

‘However, almost all the structures, systems and social ‘rules’ we live by are created by and for neurotypical people and do not take into account the vast differences in the way neurodiverse minds work.’

The actress expressed her wish that there would be “more conversations about autism in women,” while explaining that most of the “diagnostic criteria involved in assessing autism are based on research done exclusively on men.”

Megan concluded, “In true me style, I will of course talk about this A LOT; partly because I’m incredibly self-involved, but also because there’s such a lack of information and support for autistic women and I’d like to at least add my two cents.’