In brief: Surf influencer Erika White told OK! (Oct. 12) and Surfer that OnlyFans income went from about $6,600 to $66,000 a month in eight months, and that “I probably make more than pro surfers.” The figures are her own.
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Pro surfers chase sponsors. Erika White says she found a steadier source of money.
The English-Chilean surf creator told OK! Magazine (Oct. 12) she had started getting wetsuit sponsorships and free boards, “but I just wasn’t making consistent income. So why I started OnlyF— was to fund the lifestyle, fund the surfing and the travelling.” Surfer ran its own interview under the headline that OnlyFans pays more than pro surfing.
Living on peanuts
Before, she said, she lived in a tiny studio next to her family home on Universal Credit, with about $132 a week left after rent. “I was literally living on peanuts,” she said, and she was cleaning toilets for work. Her explanation, starred in the original: she’d rather “take a s— picture of myself and sell it.”
One wetsuit per season
I used to be that surfer with holes in my wetsuits. I’d only have one wetsuit for the whole year, whereas now I have one for each season.
By her account, monthly income went from about $6,603 to $66,030 within eight months (OK! converted from pounds). “Now, I probably make more than pro surfers, and I get to surf and travel and do all these things I love,” she said. She now rents a house near Byron Bay for $1,800 a week, the same property where she once stayed in a cabin and thought, “one day I’d love to live there.”
Not everyone approved. Some followers told her it “ruined your whole aesthetic.” Her reply: surfing content “doesn’t pay the bills.” And some subscribers apparently just want the surf look: “I’ve actually got a couple of fans that pay to just see me in a wetsuit.”
Her earnings are self-reported and unverified. Her OnlyFans bio calls her “the #1 surfer girl on onlyfans.” This week we also covered a very different surf story.
Her income went from about $6,600 a month to about $66,000, and she now owns a wetsuit for every season. A small group of fans pays her to keep the wetsuit on.