When Chelsea Jenks started her OnlyFans account three years ago, she expected an argument with her parents, but instead her father simply shrugged and said he’d had the idea years earlier.
Jenks explained that the 29-year-old fitness influencer’s father first suggested the subscription platform after noticing female athletes supplementing their incomes through the site.
“My dad’s really into boxing, and a lot of female boxers also use OnlyFans,” Jenks revealed. “Years before I ever started, he actually said to me, ‘You should do OnlyFans.'”
Her father had seen a female boxer whose bio included “no nudes” as well as “full access” and had decided that it was a perfectly reasonable business venture. At the time, Jenks was working as an estate agent and wasn’t convinced it would be right for her. She eventually started her page about two years later. “It’s funny that my dad was the one who put the idea of joining OnlyFans in my head before anyone else,” she confessed.
Her father’s casual acceptance of her career choice stands in stark contrast to his stricter parenting methods during her teenage years. Jenks recalled an instance where her father wouldn’t let her sleep over at her boyfriend’s house and insisted that if she went, the couple would have to sleep in separate beds.
“When I was like 16, I remember asking my dad, ‘Oh, can I go stay at my boyfriend’s house?’ and he would straight up be like ‘No.'”
After posting the link to her Instagram story, Jenks confronted her father in person later that weekend.
“I was like, ‘I’ve started OnlyFans, I don’t know if you saw?’ and he’d already seen it. He was like ‘Yeah, that’s alright.'” This has become a running joke between them, with her father teasing her about getting paid to “show her chest,” which Jenks said was “very tongue in cheek.”
She even posted a TikTok earlier last week of a message from her father to show how proud he was. Her parents know she posts topless content, but they don’t need to know the full details.
@celizabeth.j Always telling me and my brother how proud he is of of both of us 🥹❤️
Jenks admitted she told them early on that she’d likely post in a bra or with see-through underwear and that things have evolved since then.
“My parents know I do OnlyFans and that it’s more than just posting pictures online,” she clarified, “but I don’t think they need to know all the specifics, and I honestly don’t think that’s completely weird.”
She went on to say that they’ve never judged her, and “they love me for who I am. I’m a good daughter, and I’m respectful, and I’ve got good manners, so as long as I’m like that with them, they don’t really care what I do for work.”
This isn’t everyone’s experience, though. One of her family friends unfollowed her on social media when she went on a content trip with others working in the adult industry.
“When I first started, I went on a content trip with girls who were more in the adult film star space. A family friend unfollowed me,” Jenks recounted. “I asked them what I’d done wrong, and they said they’d seen me on the trip with all these porn stars and it was embarrassing.”
Jenks then called out what she called a double standard. She explained that she’s been with her boyfriend, Will, for about 9 years, and that people assume things about her and other OnlyFans models without understanding the context of their lives.
“People look down on girls on OnlyFans and assume we’re a certain way but that doesn’t work like that,” she stated, “I’ve been with Will for about nine years and he’s the only person I’ve been with sexually in that time but people still judge me more than they judge someone in a so called respectable job who might be doing things behind closed doors.”
She went on to add that everyone has multiple versions of themselves.
“Everyone has different versions of themselves, and how you are at work isn’t how you are at home, ” she said. “As long as I’m not harming anyone or scamming anyone, why does it matter? At the end of the day, it’s work.”
Jenks admitted that she’s very lucky in her line of work compared to others.
“I see girls posting about their dads sending them awful messages about doing OnlyFans,” Jenks confessed. “My parents may not love every detail, but they want me to be happy and to make as much money as I can doing it to help set me up for the future.”
