Megan Prescott, a former child star who was cast as a stripper on the show Skins at just 16 years old, revealed that she is treated better as a stripper and OnlyFans model than she was as a child actor. “Sex work was a huge sigh of relief because it was black-and-white,” Prescott, 34, told Cosmopolitan UK. “In acting, it’s not like that. It’s very vague.” She explained that at a strip club, security would step in if there was an issue. However, Prescott, who played sexually confident Katie Fitch on Skins from 2009 to 2010, said similar protections and safeguards weren’t often available if she felt uncomfortable while acting. “This was before intimacy coordinators, before #MeToo,” she said. “No one had the language of, ‘Are you comfortable? Do you want to talk about how this scene is going to go?’” Prescott also explained that there’s a double standard for former child stars. “They’re highly sexualized when they’re young, but as soon as they’re adults and say, ‘I’m going to be the main benefactor of this,’ people suddenly have a problem,” she said. “I’m going to profit off of my body because you taught me it was profitable.” In 2020, Prescott joined OnlyFans during the COVID-19 lockdown due to financial stress. Turns out, Skins, which produced stars like Nicholas Hoult and Dev Patel, didn’t pay a lot and she only made “minimum wage.” “I can only afford everything I can do now, all of my creative projects, because of OnlyFans,” she said, explaining that while she isn’t a top earner on the site, she’s no longer constantly financially stressed.
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