- Missouri high school teacher who made international headlines after switching from teaching to porn says she’s made $1 million from OnlyFans
The Missouri high school teacher who made international headlines when her side as a pornographic performer on OnlyFans was exposed says she has no regrets about leaving teaching, adding she has made a whopping $1 million from the platform has earned.
Brianna Coppage, 28, made a measly $42,000 a year as an English teacher at St. Clair High School on the outskirts of St. Louis and used OnlyFans as a means to pay off her student loans.
According to the National Education Association, Missouri has one of the lowest starting salaries in the country for teachers. Coppage, who goes by the online nickname Brooklin Love, was in her second year as a teacher.
“I started it, firstly, to just supplement my income and see what happens and possibly make some extra money. For example, I have student loans. I was doing my third degree. So I also have a master’s degree in educational sciences, and then I was working on my specialist diploma,” she says Fox news this week.
The teacher-turned-pornographer told the network that someone contacted her school district about the OnlyFans page in September, which led to her being placed on leave.
Missouri high school teacher who made international headlines after switching from teaching to porn says she’s made $1 million from OnlyFans
Brianna Coppage, 28, said she started her OnlyFans page as a way to supplement her $42,000 a year income
Coppage — whose bio was updated this past week with a message to potential followers saying, “Yes… I am THAT teacher” — is still unsure about who tipped off school officials. She said she has gained thousands of followers thanks to posts about her story
She said her income has increased significantly since she was exposed – thanks to several thousand new subscribers
After being questioned about its nature, and whether it ever coincided with her teaching career, she told them it was “completely separate.”
Coppage was not asked to resign after the meeting and district officials took “all possible steps to ensure confidentiality” after Coppage’s page was discovered through social media posts, Superintendent Kyle Kruse said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
When she was placed on leave last month, Kruse said in a statement that “an employee may have posted inappropriate media on one or more Internet sites.”
Coppage said she was making up to $10,000 a month on the OnlyFans website – before the story of her suspension made international news.
In the days that followed, her account gained over 100 new subscribers and she more than doubled her subscription price. She said at the time of her suspension that she would continue posting on the site.
“I don’t regret joining OnlyFans. I know it can be taboo, and some people may find it shameful, but I don’t think sex work has to be shameful,” Coppage told the newspaper in September. “I just wish things would just happen in a different way.”
St. Clair is located about 55 miles southwest of St. Louis. The high school has approximately 750 students.
According to the National Education Association, Missouri has one of the lowest starting salaries in the country for teachers
After quitting her teaching job, Coppage said The messenger: “I don’t want the school to continue to get hate.”
“I would like to see student education return to normal,” she added.
“They deserve to have a great year.”
Coppage’s bio has been updated with a message to potential followers that reads, “Yes… I am THAT teacher” – she is still unsure about who initially tipped off school officials.
In the same interview, Coppage suggested that he may have been a student who had betrayed her to the authorities.