After facing backlash for having sex on season 1 of the Jersey Shore spinoff Aussie Shore, Lily Jade decided to embrace her new brand by launching an OnlyFans.
“I was getting slut shamed a lot through the show,” Jade, 22, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the season 2 premiere. “For season 1, I was the only girl that had sex on TV and that definitely revved up everyone as a young girl having sex. They’re like, ‘Can’t believe she’s doing this. So disgusting.’ But for me, everyone has sex. If I’m not having sex on TV, I’m going to be having sex in my normal life. It’s nothing crazy. … I’m like, ‘If people really want to talk about it, I’ll give them something to talk about.’ I just decided to start [OnlyFans] one day.”
While Jade “wasn’t expecting anything” after creating an account, she noted that “it just went crazy within the first 24 hours.”
“I was so shocked because I had no photos, no videos. I kind of just opened the account and I just went from there,” Jade explained. “Now I laugh because the first thing I ever sent was just the topless photo. I thought I was so bad and naughty for doing that. But now looking back, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, that’s the least of my worries.’”
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As she navigated the online hate while launching her page on OnlyFans, Jade continued to have her parents — who “always knew [she] was destined for public fame” — in her corner.
“My parents would never stop me from doing anything that I ever wanted to do. They were super supportive. They said if you want to do it, we have your back. Ever since then, they’ve been great with it,” Jade said, noting that there are “boundaries” when it comes to her new career path. “They understand that it’s a job. If they hear about it from other people or say anything, they know this is just a job and they’re just gonna not think about it.”
While balancing both her OnlyFans and reality TV careers, Jade is making her return on season 2 of Aussie Shore.
“Before I went in, I really was going back and forth from like, ‘Do I want to change anything? Do I want to act nicer for a good edit?’ I was trying to think of all these things that I could do to make myself feel better,” she said. “But I don’t know. I just thought to myself, ‘Why should I need to do that for a TV show?’ I should never have to change how I act or who I am, because all my family and friends on the outside like me. That’s what I should really care about.”
