Lauren Goodger has revealed she is selling her lingerie photos on racy subscription sites Onlyfans and RevealMe to protect her family’s future after squandering her fortune.
The TOWIE star, 38, said she happily lives a “basic” life in an ordinary terraced house with her three-year-old daughter Larose, who she shares with her ex Charles Drury, but wants to earn as much as she can for the Larose family. future.
The brunette beauty previously revealed she used to charge £25,000 for a magazine shoot in her TOWIE heyday, but now she’s lucky to take home £2,000 because the industry has changed so much.
Now the reality star has turned to Onlyfans, where she sells photos of herself in lingerie for a $50 (£38) monthly membership to the adult photo-sharing site.
However, Lauren confessed last month that she would prefer not to have to use the X-rated website, where she posts pictures in lingerie to make money.
She told MailOnline that a series of poor financial decisions when she was younger and burnout from her job meant she had to reconsider.
Lauren Goodger has revealed she is selling her lingerie photos on racy subscription sites Onlyfans and RevealMe to protect her family’s future after squandering her fortune.
After some financial mismanagement, the reality star turned to Onlyfans, where she sells photos of herself in lingerie for a $50 (£38) monthly membership.
Lauren revealed that after finding fame on TOWIE (pictured with Billie Faiers, Lucy Mecklenburgh, Jessica Wright, Lydia Bright and Sam Faiers) she squandered her fortune.
She said: “When I started I could earn an average of £25,000 for a magazine shoot, but now everything is moving online and I get a lot less, maybe £2,000.
“I used to do a photo shoot or an appearance or something almost every day, so I could earn a lot, but I found that work started to dry up and especially after Covid, my pregnancy and my loss and everything.”
Lauren’s daughter, Lorena, died when she was two days old in July 2022, despite being born “without complications in pregnancy or childbirth.”
He added: “And when I was younger I didn’t manage my money and I didn’t have the right support around me.”
Lauren went on to confirm that she doesn’t plan on posing on Onlyfans forever, but she wants to make sure she’s financially stable before closing her account.
To ensure she could make as much money as possible, the TOWIE star launched a profile on a new site, RevealMe, which she explained was set up by her friend as a “British version of Onlyfans”.
The star hopes to post photos regularly and interact with fans.
“My plan with Reveal Me and Onlyfans is that I just want to make as much money as I can, close it and invest the money in a property for my daughter, pay off my debts and maybe start a business again.” she said.
“I don’t want to do it forever, I really can’t do it forever.”
Although Lauren doesn’t want to sell sexy photos forever, she revealed that it wouldn’t work if she wanted to get a 9-to-5 job.
She said: ‘I couldn’t do a regular job, I used to. I used to work in the city and I have friends who do, but I don’t think anyone accepts me for who I am anymore.
Lauren said: ‘My plan with Reveal Me and Onlyfans is that I just want to make as much money as I can, close it and invest the money in a property for my daughter’ (Lauren pictured with her daughter Larose, three).
Lauren also opened up about her approach to money after finding fame through TOWIE, revealing that she had thought money would last forever but is now “taking back control”.
“You think it will last forever, but money comes and goes,” he said.
“I feel like I’m getting the old Lauren back and doing more things myself and not with an agency.”
“When I was filming, I lost about 20 percent through an agency, but now I do it myself and I think it’s better.”
She added that she is “grateful for the job” but is now more pragmatic with her finances and revealed the advice she would give to her three-year-old daughter Larose.
The reality star, who is currently filming the TOWIE Christmas special, said: “I’m so grateful for work and I can fill my cupboards every week, but I’m more sensible with my money.”
‘When I was younger I didn’t manage my money and didn’t have the right support around me’
‘I would tell Larose to invest and save. It’s nice to have designer clothes and bags, but I’d rather have money.
“Where I grew up, you went to school in Gucci shoes and I don’t want her to miss out, but I want her to value money because it comes and goes and it’s hard and stressful.”
And although the star has returned to the successful reality show after more than six years, she confessed that she is not sure she wants her daughter to follow in her footsteps.
Although Lauren doesn’t want to sell sexy photos forever — it wouldn’t work if she wanted to get a 9-to-5 job — she said, “I don’t think anyone will accept me anymore for who I am.”
She said: ‘I don’t want her to do it. I’ve learned a lot the hard way, but I don’t want her to do any of that.
‘I’m not sure Larose would go on TOWIE, maybe he would.
“With Love Island I wouldn’t really like her to do it, but I would support her and maybe be her manager because I want to protect her.”
Talking about her future plans, Lauren said she would love to start a new business and wants to bring back her fake tanning brand and work on her beauty business Lauren’s Way.