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Jessie Cave is best known for starring as Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter film franchise (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\nHarry Potter star Jessie Cave said making content for OnlyFans \u201creally has saved me\u201d during an \u201cembarrassing\u201d time when she was struggling for work and money.<\/p>\n
The actress, 39, is best known for her role as Lavender Brown in the popular fantasy film franchise and has gained attention since joining the platform in March 2025.<\/p>\n
Despite OnlyFans being known primarily for adult content, Cave caters to a non-sexual niche with her \u201chair content\u201d, and previously revealed she made more money on the platform in one year than during her entire acting career.<\/p>\n
Speaking to ITV\u2019s This Morning about why she chose to use the platform, Cave said: \u201cI just started doing funny videos of brushing my hair and plaiting my hair, and then people liked them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I was in a quite a desperate spot, and I just thought: Well, why don\u2019t I?<\/p>\n
\u201cI mainly do one-woman shows with puppets. Yeah I was in Harry Potter, but I\u2019m a struggling artist basically.<\/p>\n
\u201cI took a chance and I thought I\u2019d make a little bit of money to pay back the money I lost during one of the Edinburgh Festivals I\u2019ve done \u2013 because it\u2019s extortionate now \u2013 and I\u2019ve just kept going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cave added: \u201cIt\u2019s been a fun little hobby on the side, and it\u2019s really opened me up and definitely made me more confident as a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actress said the platform \u201creally has saved me\u201d when she \u201cstruggled to find a way forward financially as an artist\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jessie Cave is best known for starring as Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter film franchise (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n
Reflecting on how it felt to be struggling for money despite her role in the blockbuster film franchise, Cave said: \u201cI was a smallish part, and it was 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople just assume I\u2019m rich and I have loads of money \u2013 and no, I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was embarrassing because on a certain level I would have really liked to get a job, but you know what it\u2019s like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mother-of-four explained that one of the reasons she struggles to find and fund opportunities for work is because \u201cit costs so much for childcare\u201d.<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cI have managed to keep afloat (as an actress) for 18 years, and then it just came to a moment a couple of years ago where I was like, \u2018I really don\u2019t know what I would do\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was an option, and I am now so glad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cave described her content as \u201cartful\u201d, and said: \u201cIt just looks quite interesting \u2013 and if people like it, that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actress added that she is continuing to perform one-woman shows, and said: \u201cThis is how I\u2019m making a living as an artist, which I think I want to have less shame about.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lily Allen is among the stars to have used OnlyFans (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n
Cave made her acting debut in the CBBC drama Summerhill in 2008, and went on to feature in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince a year later.<\/p>\n
The actress later shifted her focus towards theatre and made her West End debut in 2009 and also pursued a comedy career.<\/p>\n
Other stars have joined OnlyFans including rapper Cardi B, American Pie star Shannon Elizabeth and Foundations singer Kate Nash, who previously told MPs she sold pictures of her bottom on the site in order to fund her tour.<\/p>\n
Lily Allen is also among the famous faces on the platform, and revealed she had started uploading photos of her feet to the adult subscription site in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Potter star Jessie Cave said making content for OnlyFans \u201creally has saved me\u201d during an \u201cembarrassing\u201d time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-600989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}