Elaina St James created her OnlyFans account in the spring of 2021. Courtesy of Elaina St James
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Elaina St James is a 55-year-old OnlyFans model. She quit her job to create content full-time.
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She has earned around $630,000 from the subscription site in less than two years.
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St. James says she is happier and able to give her son a better life.
Just two months after creating her OnlyFans account, Elaina St James quit her job and became a full-time content creator.
And less than two years later, the 55-year-old mom has already earned an estimated $630,000 in less than two years from the membership site. The insider saw documents supporting their earnings.
St. James says she is happier since quitting her job and can provide a better life for her son. (Elaina St James is a stage name she uses. Insider has agreed to use this name to protect her privacy.)
In his thirties, St. James worked in consumer goods sales. After having a baby at the age of 42, she decided to leave her career behind, working instead in car sales, then in an office.
Before I started at OnlyFans, “I wasn’t good at social media,” she said.
But during the pandemic, she read an article about another mom creating OnlyFans content. St. James said she was immediately interested.
Elaina St James OnlyFans subscribers pay $9.99 per month. Courtesy of Elaina St James
After a month of research, she decided to bite the bullet. St. James created his accounts on Instagram and OnlyFans on April 1, 2021.
For the first two weeks, she posted photos and videos without her face, but as soon as she showed her face, her accounts “started to explode,” she said.
By the end of April, she had 10,000 Instagram followers and nearly $2,000 in OnlyFans earnings. In her second month, she made around $5,400 and in her third, she grew to almost $11,000. In her fourth month – July 2021 – she earned around $22,000. Her income skyrocketed towards the end of 2022 when she earned nearly $100,000 in November and December. Insiders saw screenshots confirming their earnings.
Their subscribers pay $9.99 per month, with OnlyFans receiving 20% of their earnings. From their account creation to January 2023, the two St. James accounts have earned nearly $800,000 from subscriptions, or about $630,000 after OnlyFans fees. She also earns money through Fansly, a platform just like Fans.
St. James said she quit her job two months after starting OnlyFans when she realized she could make more money putting those hours into modeling.
St. James said she typically posts one or two adult images to her OnlyFans each day, though she uploaded more at first. In total, she has more than 1,300 photos on her account. On Fridays, she posts pre-recorded 10-minute “chat and flash” sessions where she talks while taking off her shirt.
St. James said she thinks her niche is a “mature dominatrix” and seeks to create a “powerful, sleek and stylish” online persona. But she realized that was not why her subscribers came to see her. Instead, they preferred that she just be herself: a “healthy, fun, positive, smiling, and slightly eccentric Midwestern mom,” she said.
“I don’t have the perfect body. I have a belly. I have cellulite,” she told Insider.
Some young designers have called her an “inspiration,” St. James said. “It makes me feel so much better,” she told Insider.
“I don’t have the perfect body,” Elaina St James told Insider. Courtesy of Elaina St James
St. James said her primary followers are younger men in their 20s and 30s who have an “older woman fantasy” that they can only live out online. But not all of her followers are young – one of her biggest supporters is a 79-year-old widower, she said.
St. James — who has five Instagram accounts — posted a role in which she wore pink floral satin panties that she said cost $8 from Amazon. The coil exploded. 26 million views have been achieved to date.
Despite the success of her posts, St. James derives very little of her income from Instagram. Instead, she said she uses the platform — along with Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and Reddit — as marketing platforms to drive people to their OnlyFans.
As of February 2023, she has 3,400 OnlyFans subscribers. She said her peak was around 5,500.
St. James said she has a “very close bond” with her teenage son. “He knows I’m a nude model,” she said, adding that he’s “definitely” seen her posts on Instagram and TikTok. He rolls his eyes and calls her crumbly, she says.
St. James’s career with OnlyFans has made her happy, allowing her to pay for a car, life insurance, vacations, as well as start a college fund for her son and save for retirement. “I couldn’t have afforded it without OnlyFans,” she said.
But it made her love life much more difficult, she said. “I try to stay low.”
“I can’t do this forever,” St. James said of his OnlyFans career. She said she had been contacted by porn companies but was not interested in this career path.
“I would like to retire at 65,” she told Insider. “I don’t know what the future holds for me, but I would like to move on to the motivational speech because I have many chapters ahead of me in my life.”
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