Meet the Teacher Turned OnlyFans Model Who Went From Bankruptcy to $100,000 a Month: ‘People Just Want Authentic’
Entrepreneur spoke with Courtney Tillia, a former educator turned content creator whose career transition — and financial success — is turning heads
By | Emily Rella | www.entrepreneur.com
The definition of what it means to be a “successful entrepreneur” today has shifted as new technology lets people carve out their own paths in non-traditional ways. It’s also made “content creation” a full-time profession.
When Courtney Tillia was looking for a new income path after quitting her job as a special education teacher in 2017, she joined Onlyfans — a service that allows content creators to charge fans and viewers for exclusive content via subscription or one-off fees.
Now, she’s a top creator on the platform, making anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 a month. In just three years of being full-time on the platform, she’s made over $1 million.
“I’m the modern-day American dream,” Tillia told Entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur spoke with the Los Angeles-based content creator about her lucrative profession, working with her husband, and how the public has reacted to her controversial career choice.
When did you decide to leave teaching to be a full-time content creator?
I was a school teacher for six years, and towards the last year, I found myself anxious, depressed and really withdrawn from my family. At the time, my husband and I only had my one teacher income — he had resigned to start his own business, which hadn’t fully gotten off the ground yet.
