An OnlyFans star who made £5million creating adult content and selling bath water online has told Louis Theroux she is no longer in a relationship with her father after he discovered her online persona.
Belle Delphine, 24, who was born in South Africa but lives in the UK, currently has more than 3 million followers on Instagram and charges subscribers £28 a month to access her Onlyfans content.
As a result of her large online following, the social media star, whose real name is Mary-Belle Kirschner, was able to purchase her “dream” eight-bedroom home in the Sussex countryside.
On the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, Belle explained how she tried to keep her job a secret from her father, who lives in South Africa.
However, she says he became suspicious of how she could afford to buy a house and discovered her online persona, resulting in him no longer being in Belle’s life.
During her conversation with Louis, Belle explained how she gained 1 million Instagram followers in one month when she first switched her content from fashion photos to more adult content in 2019.
She explained: ‘I didn’t think about any of that. My plan wasn’t to become big or popular or anything like that.
“I just wanted enough money to move out of my mother’s house.”
In the summer of 2019, Belle went viral when she started selling her bath water for £24 a bottle to her followers, causing her supplies to sell out within two days.
The adult creator said she was inspired for the idea by the ‘used panties’ machines she had read about in Japan.
She continued, “I was trying to think of something more unique, so I went down the [route] to sell my own saliva or hair.
‘But I didn’t want to cut my hair and it’s very difficult to produce a lot of saliva. So I thought of something closer to my physical body that I could produce and sell in a cute way and that I thought was quite fun to make.’
The star’s father, who is from Cape Town, worked in advertising and film production, which is how he met Bella’s model mother.
In the summer of 2019, Belle went viral when she started selling her bath water for £24 a bottle to her followers.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Belle (pictured) detailed how obsessed fans showed up at her mother’s house and left her notes telling her she needed to pay her taxes.
Onlyfans star Belle Delphine, who has earned over £5million from her adult content, appears on the latest episode of Louis Theroux’s Spotify podcast.
The couple married after knowing each other for a year, around the time Belle’s mother’s visa ran out and she became pregnant.
Reflecting on her relationship with her father, she said: ‘There was no aspect of parenting that he seemed to enjoy.
“My childhood was spent on tiptoe with my father.”
After their relationship broke down, Belle says she reached out to her father when she first bought their house to try to save things in early 2019.
Although Belle explained that she sympathized with her father’s “tough upbringing” and difficult character at times, she said this meant that he was “the only one she couldn’t tell” about her work.
“Everyone in my family knows it,” he said. “I never wanted it to be a secret because everyone always finds out eventually.”
Although her father’s visit “went well” initially, Belle suspects that he Googled her shortly after visiting her home and discovered her online persona.
She explained: “I think it was that night or the next day and he went crazy.” He went crazy.
‘The messages I was writing… were just horrible. But he’s always been like that, so it’s not something he wouldn’t have expected.”
However, Belle says she doesn’t regret reaching out to her father at the time because she “would have always wondered” if they could have had a better relationship.
Later in the podcast, Belle addressed critics saying that she has “daddy issues” as a result and admitted that she looks for older partners to “take care of her.”
Although Belle admitted her OnlyFans subscriber count fluctuates weekly, she claimed she earns £1 million a month from the platform.
Belle has also offered a ‘girlfriend experience’ through her online platforms, which involves having direct conversations with the star.
Of her thousands of subscribers, Belle says she’s “pretty picky” about how she speaks individually, and returns to the top 50-100 tippers.
She added: “I can’t message everyone and I don’t think it’s something you should necessarily expect.” […] “It’s quite strange to have a sexual mindset.”
Although Belle says she has given consent to everything she has posted online, she is aware that some of her content, particularly videos, is not something she can “take down.”
In 2020, Belle says she regrets posting her first porn video that allowed her to buy her dream house because it was “pretty shitty” and “awkward.”
She said: “It’s one thing to post your first porn video, it’s another thing to post a porn video knowing that millions of people are going to see it.” “The pressure was too much for me.”
Louis was stunned when Belle informed him that the video had earned him a staggering £5million.
Belle Delphine, 24, who was born in South Africa but lives in the UK, currently has more than 3 million followers on Instagram and charges subscribers £28 a month to access her Onlyfans content.
Despite this, Belle says she would like to “disappear” from the Internet one day.
She added: “I’m not really interested in the fame aspect, so there won’t be anything stopping me at that point.”
“I think once it’s run its course, I’ll let it go.”
Elsewhere in the podcast, Belle detailed how obsessed fans showed up at her mother’s house and left her notes telling her she needed to pay her taxes, as they assumed OnlyFans stars didn’t.
Detailing an experience she had with a fan, she explained: “He claimed that he knew who I was and that I was a 30-year-old woman and that we were in love and that he had met me many times and that we had had this whole relationship.” .
“He would rewrite the same handwritten letter hundreds of times and send me sad gifts.”
Belle regularly posts photos of herself dressed as anime and video game characters.
Belle eventually ended up reporting this fan to the police after he sent her his passport, credit cards, and a doctor’s note detailing his psychotic episodes.
Belle later said that she is aware that she will feel “uncomfortable” as she grows up knowing that her nude photos are on the Internet.
She explained: “I’m not against sex work at all.” […] But what happens if you record content with a partner and things get pretty ugly?
‘Are you still selling this video of you and your ex-partner to people because it makes you money?
‘Personally I haven’t had this, but others have. How do you deal with your uncle buying your Onlyfans?