For one family, OnlyFans has turned into something close to a family business. Twin sisters Julia and Lauren Burch, both 25, say they earn six figures a month on the platform, and they’ve now helped their mother, Pam, build a page of her own. According to the New York Post‘s Sonya Gugliara, Pam, 46, turned to OnlyFans after a disability forced her out of her job.

How the twins got started

The Los Angeles-based sisters opened their OnlyFans accounts in July 2020. Julia told the Post that they wanted to be models as kids, but being short pushed them toward social media instead. “We love it so much. It’s a lot of work but it’s worth it,” Lauren said.

The bet paid off. Each twin has roughly 2 million Instagram followers and more than 400,000 OnlyFans subscribers, the Post reports.

Why their mom joined

Pam’s path to the platform looked very different. She raised her kids as a single mother, worked multiple jobs to support the twins’ competitive dancing, and after years of waitressing went back to school and became a child and youth care practitioner for a school board.

That career ended when she was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a rare genetic neuromuscular disorder that causes extreme fatigue in the arms and legs. She told the Post that her disability payments of about $2,000 a month weren’t enough to cover her expenses.

“OnlyFans seemed like the best next step,” Pam said. “It allows me to work when I can and give my body a rest.”

Separate pages, shared know-how

Pam launched her page in 2023, and her daughters brought their content experience along. “We help her take photos and get to take cute pictures for social media around the holidays and things like that,” Lauren told the Post. As Fashion Times UK‘s Christian Lloyd Caga-anan points out, this isn’t a shared account: each of the three runs her own page and builds her own audience, with the twins helping behind the scenes.

Pam now has roughly 15,000 subscribers and has earned six figures in total since she started, according to the Post.

Shrugging off the hate

The family hasn’t escaped criticism. The twins told the Post they laugh off comments accusing them of “fatherless behavior” and worse, and Fashion Times UK notes that social media users have questioned the normalization of adult content creation. Pam’s view is simple: “A lot of people I’d say are jealous.” She also made it clear she’s behind her daughters: “My girls are smart and know what they’re doing. I’ve always been so proud of them.”

The takeaway

The Burch family’s story shows a side of OnlyFans that doesn’t always get airtime: for people whose health makes a regular job hard, flexible hours can matter as much as the money. It also shows how experienced creators pass on what they’ve learned, in this case to the person who once drove them to dance practice.

Featured image: AI-generated illustration, not a photo of the Burch family.