These powerhouse women are dominating in their respective sport and the content subscription business, selling exclusive photos, videos and even used socks on OnlyFans — a subscription-based social media platform, where users can sell and/or purchase original content.
Meet eight female athletes who are cashing in on OnlyFans, including fierce fighters, a volleyball player and a three-time world champion.
Paige VanZant
After going “back and forth” about her decision to launch an OnlyFans website, Paige VanZant initially decided to take a different approach to monetizing her content. The former UFC fighter joined a separate company, Fan Time.
“I wanted to do it professionally and have my own website and that’s what I’ve done,” VanZant told MMA Fighting in April. “There’s two sides of it. I didn’t want to put myself in a position where I would lose business opportunities based on having an exclusive content site, but I feel like I’m already seen as a sex symbol in the sports world. I might as well have the monetization behind it.”
However, Van Zant did eventually decide to join OnlyFans in September.
VanZant left the UFC in July 2020 after a loss to Amanda Ribas. That August, she signed a multi-million dollar deal with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. The fighter also signed a contract with All Elite Wrestling shortly after her appearance on “AEW Dynamite” in March. The AEW deal allows her to compete with BKFC.
Felice Herrig
Felice Herrig, currently of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, has made a lucrative OnlyFans business selling her used socks for $150, as well as photos of her feet.
“It’s made a huge difference, especially because, after my first knee surgery, I wouldn’t say I was broke but I had no money coming in,” the 37-year-old told TMZ. “People don’t realize, you’re locked into this contract that you can’t get out of, but you’re not getting paid to be in it.”
After suffering injuries in her sport, Herrig turned to OnlyFans, which helped her financially and allowed her to have a more flexible fight schedule. Herrig signed with BKFC after retiring from MMA in June.
Tai Emery
Tia Emery, another Bare Knuckle fighter, saw a rapid boost of sales and subscribers on OnlyFans after she flashed her breasts following a Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship win last month in Bangkok.
Emery — who is a former LFL football player — told TMZ she charges $10 a month to access her content. The BKFC star is reportedly on track to collect $25,000 per month, or $300,000 per year, from her OnlyFans platform.
Emery told TMZ that her OnlyFans account helped her to “survive” during the COVID-19 pandemic, when she lived in the jungle in Thailand.
Jessica Andrade
The former UFC champion joined OnlyFans to make extra money after moving to Las Vegas, she told MMA Fighting last September, after a photo-leak exposed some of her nude photos.
Andrade said the money she made on OnlyFans helped her pay her rent in Vegas, pay off her car and home in her native Brazil, as well as start the renovation process on her mother’s home.
Hannah “24K” Goldy
The 30-year-old fighter launched her OnlyFans page during the COVID-19 pandemic. Goldy initially launched her OnlyFans account to help pay for her then-new home. At the time, the athlete was working three jobs at two gyms and a restaurant while the pandemic affected her fight career.
Following a brutal TKO loss to Molly McCann at UFC London in July, Goldy auctioned off the panties she wore to the weigh-in, asking her OnlyFans subscribers at the time to “DM me with your bids.”
The cost of a subscription to Goldy’s OnlyFans account is $10 as of Friday. She currently has 345 posts uploaded to her account.
Madelene Wright
The former soccer player turned to OnlyFans after she was ousted by Charlton Athletic women’s team in December. Wright was let go from the team after an investigation into Snapchat videos that allegedly showed her drinking champagne while driving and inhaling from a balloon in 2019.
Wright has earned over 558,000 since joining OnlyFans, The Sun reported in July.
Key Alves
The Brazilian volleyball player — who is considered to be the world’s most famous female in her sport — is making “about 50 times more” online than with volleyball.
“I’m going into my third year on a professional volleyball team and I consider myself a professional athlete, but things off the court started to grow a lot for me,” Alves told Globo Esporte, per OutKick. “So I started paying a little more attention to that side career.
“Whether I like it or not, today it’s my biggest income. I earn about 50 times more with digital platforms than with volleyball, and more on OnlyFans, because the monthly price of 16 euros is fixed.”
Alves plays for Osasco Volleyball Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Elise Christie
The three-time world champion short-track speed-skater reportedly turned to OnlyFans to fund her dream of appearing for Team GB at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
The 32-year-old charges $12 per month for her OnlyFans subscription fee, according to The Sun, which reported that Christie has posted lingerie photos and polled her subscribers about posting “a topless skating pic.”
Christie previously worked in a pizza parlour and for a family curry business to pay her bills, she told SunSport in May.