Sophie Rain explains how her family reacted to her joining OnlyFans and why their opinion changed

Sophie Rain said her family changed their mind on her being on OnlyFans after a couple of months.

Rain is one of the highest earning stars on the platform and managed to earn $43 million in a year, with special thanks to one very devoted fan who spent over four million dollars on her in the course of 12 months.

She's told others not to quit the day job as she said it wasn't 'sunshine and rainbows', and that it 'will NOT be worth it' if you're not one of the fortunate few accounts to have an absolutely massive amount of subscribers.

Some of those who weren't particular fans of her on OnlyFans early on were her own family, as Rain told GQ they weren't all that enthusiastic about her newfound fame and 'didn't talk to her' for a couple of months.

Rain explained she wasn't the first in her family to get onto the platform as her older sister Sierra was the first to do so.

Sophie Rain said her older sister was on OnlyFans before she was, and that her family didn't talk to her for a couple of months after they found out (Instagram/@sophieraiin)

She said she realised there was real money to be made on OnlyFans 'when I went with her to go buy her Tesla'.

"I was like, ‘Oh my God, she had money. She’s doing this and she’s killing it,'" Rain explained, having told GQ her family lived on benefits in the US and got $400 a week to put towards their food shopping so this kind of cash was transformative.

Her older sister put her in touch with a man who advised her on how to grow her online presence so she could direct people on social media towards her OnlyFans profile, and said that after that her fame and fortune was pretty much 'instant'.

The success cost her a job at a restaurant, but given how she's ended up earning a lot more money from the platform it turned out to be a profitable decision.

Her family really weren't the biggest fans, with Rain saying: "My family didn’t talk to me for the first couple of months, because they didn’t agree with it."

They changed their mind after she talked to them about the content she was doing and explained to them she hadn't become a porn star.

Rain said her family changed their mind after she showed them what she was doing and explained it wasn't porn (Wilbert Roberts/Getty Images for Main Character)

After that they were more accepting and the OnlyFans star said she was 'very close' with her family again.

"But then I showed them that I’m being safe. They had that stereotype in their head immediately: ‘Oh, she’s doing porn. My daughter’s doing porn.’

"No, this - the largely soft-core content - is what I’m doing here. This is my content that I’m providing. I’m intentional about everything I do. Now, we’re very close."

She did put some of her earnings towards her family as her parents have been able to retire and she's buying them a new house to live in.

Rain also said the boundaries she keeps around her content and there being things she won't do have helped her earnings, as she told TMZ she wouldn't do porn.