Brianna Coppage, the teacher who quit after her OnlyFans was exposed, reveals she's made $1 MILLION
The Missouri high school teacher who made international headlines where her side hustles as a pornographic performer on OnlyFans was revealed says she has no regrets about leaving teaching, adding that she's pocketed a cool $1 million from the platform.
Brianna Coppage, 28, was making a paltry $42,000 per year as an English teacher at St. Clair High School on the outskirts of St. Louis and was using OnlyFans as a means to pay off her student loans.
Missouri has among the nation's lowest starting salaries for teachers in the nation, according to the National Education Association. Coppage, who goes by the moniker Brooklin Love online, was in her second-year of teaching.
'I started it, one, to just supplement my income and kind of see what happens and possibly make extra money. Like, I have student loans. I was working on my third degree. So, I also have a master's degree in education, and then I was working on my specialist degree,' she told Fox News this week.
The educator-turned-pornographer told the network that someone contacted her school district in September about the OnlyFans page which resulted in her being placed on leave.
The Missouri high school teacher who made international headlines after switching from education to porn says she's made $1 million from OnlyFans
Brianna Coppage, 28, said she began her OnlyFans page as a means to supplement her $42,000 per year income
Coppage - whose bio in the past week has been amended with a message to prospective followers that says, 'Yes… I’m THAT teacher' - still has her doubts about who tipped off school officials. She said she has gained thousands of followers due to reports surrounding her story
She said her income has substantially increased since she was exposed - thanks to several thousand new subscribers
After being interrogated about the nature of it, and whether or not it ever coincided with her teaching career, she told them that it was 'completely separate.'
Coppage was not asked to resign following the meeting and district officials took 'all possible steps to ensure confidentiality' after Coppage's page was discovered through social media posts, Superintendent Kyle Kruse told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Last month when she was placed on leave, Kruse said in a statement that 'an employee may have posted inappropriate media on one or more internet sites.'
Coppage said she earned up to $10,000 a month on the OnlyFans website — before the story of her suspension made international news.
In the days that followed, her account gained more than 100 new subscribers and she more than doubled her subscription price. She said at the time of her suspension that she would continue posting on the site.
'I do not regret joining OnlyFans. I know it can be taboo, or some people may believe that it is shameful, but I don't think sex work has to be shameful,' Coppage told the newspaper in September. 'I do just wish things just happened in a different way.'
St. Clair is about 55 miles southwest of St. Louis, The high school has about 750 students.
Missouri has among the nation's lowest starting salaries for teachers in the nation, according to the National Education Association
After quitting her teaching job, Coppage told The Messenger: 'I don’t want the school to continue getting hate.'
'I would like the education of students to be able to return to normal,' she added.
'They deserve to have a great year.'
Coppage's bio has been amended with a message to prospective followers that says, 'Yes… I’m THAT teacher' - still has her doubts about who initially tipped off school officials.
In the same interview, Coppage suggested that he may have been a student who ratted her out to authorities.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7pa3IpbCmmZmhe6S7ja6iaKaVrMBwrdGtoJyklWJ%2Bc4KUbG1rbV93v6qtzaeYZnufpb2is8Rmq56Zk52ys3nQrqCtZX%2BjubqSwKeqZp2opby0scNmqZ6ulZa5tHnSoZysZWFimoqYq4KGh2WepHqzscarnK2rXZm2ta%2FHoqWgZZOhrrS%2F0aimpmWgpL%2BvesetpKU%3D