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Perhaps you remember the icy glam of her primetime TV roles or her scene-stealing turn as Chander Bing’s spicy novelist mom on Friends.
But Morgan Fairchild is vowing to share another side of herself as the latest veteran soap vixen to join the racy online subscription platform OnlyFans.
“I’m putting up new pictures and videos. And before anyone asks: no, not that kind,” the 76-year-old actress told U.S. media outlets, including People, TMZ and USA Today.
“Mostly, it’s just me being goofy and talking about whatever’s on my mind.”
From left, actresses Linda Gray, Fairchild, Donna Mills, Loni Anderson and Nicollette Sheridan attend a Beverly Hills, Calif., event in 2023. Mills, who starred on Knots Landing, joined Onlyfans in July. (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Lifetime / A+E)
A mainstay on TV and in movies in the 1980s and ’90s, Fairchild’s wide-ranging credits run the gamut from soaps like Falcon Crest, Dallas and General Hospital to her regular cameo spots in episodes of hit shows like Mork & Mindy, Magnum, P.I., The Love Boat, Saturday Night Live, Murphy Brown and Friends.
“People know the characters, the clothes and the big hair… They may not know what a science nerd I am or how easily my sister can make me laugh. I’d love to share more of that,” said the Dallas-born actress, who currently hosts the podcast 2 Bitches From Texas with her sister Cathryn Hartt.
She follows in the footsteps of friend and Knots Landing star Donna Mills, who joined OnlyFans this past July and has spoken positively in interviews about her experience thus far. Last spring, Mills went viral on social media with a post clapping back at an age-shaming comment she received.
An online platform where subscribers pay creators for custom photos and videos, OnlyFans is best known for its adult content and as a safer space for sex workers to make a living. It’s been singled out amid wider debates about combatting sex trafficking and the exploitation of minors, with the platform announcing a ban of sexually explicit content in 2021, but backtracking days later.
More recently, however, a wider range of people looking to bolster their finances have joined the service, including a growing wave of famous faces aiming to connect with paying fans through tamer, non-explicit content.
American Pie‘s Shannon Elizabeth, Battlestar Galactica‘s Tricia Helfer, Drea de Matteo from The Sopranos and multiple stars from Baywatch are among the 1990s and early-2000s Hollywood stars who’ve signed up.
Elite athletes — including a raft of Olympians — have also turned to the platform as a source of income and financial stability while they navigate the steep costs of a competitive athletic career.
In recent years, more famous faces have joined Onlyfans, including, from left, Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica, Shannon Elizabeth from American Pie and Baywatch’s Erika Eleniak. (Unique Nicole /AFP/Getty, Kevin Winter/Getty, Alex J. Berliner/ABImages/Paramount Pictures/Getty)
