Bella Thorne: Her Journey From Disney Actress To OnlyFans Star

Former Disney star Bella Thorne has found success in the adult industry, earning a whopping $2 million from her OnlyFans page after less than a week on the platform.

Thorne’s account on the adult-rated subscription service does not feature full nudity, and fans can pay $20 a month to view premium content. She said in a recent interview with Paper magazine that she decided to join the service as it was the only platform where she could fully control her image.

The 22-year-old has come a long way since attaining stardom as an actress in the Disney sitcom “Shake It Up,” which ran from 2010 to 2013.

Thorne has credited the Disney series for keeping her off the streets.

She lost her father to a motorcycle accident when she was 9 years old, and Thorne was expected to be the breadwinner. “We were living off Stouffer’s coupons, and that’s what we had to eat every day,” Thorne revealed on an MTV podcast. “We were about to live physically on the street if I didn’t have that role.”

Her portrayal of Cecelia “CeCe” Jones, a dancer with heavy ambitions, soon made her a household name. She continued starring in family movies such as “Blended” and “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.”

It wasn’t long before Thorne started experimenting with edgier roles, with projects such as “Shovel Buddies” and “Assassination Nation.”

The year 2019 saw Thorne flirting with the adult entertainment industry with PornHub’s “Her & Him,” an erotic flick for which she received the Vision Award from the website. At the time, Thorne revealed that she was working with Pornhub to make the site safer.

“I am working with Pornhub to implement a change to their flagging system algorithm to ensure safety for everyone and everyone in our community,” Thorne said while accepting the platform’s Vision Award, PageSix reported. “I’m literally so f–king excited.”

This might not have been the transition that Thorne's agents envisioned, but the actress appears to have no regrets.

“My agents used to say, your transition we think should be Disney to comedy to lead love interest comedy to Rachel McAdams type-vibe . . . I love Rachel McAdams, but I’m not Rachel McAdams,” Thorne once told Vogue.

She added, “I like the darker things... I like the movies that make you uncomfortable because that is what life is.”

As for what's next for Thorne, she told Los Angeles Times that acting and making movies are still in her future.

Aside from charity, the money she will be earning from her OnlyFans page will go to her production company. And Thorne will be using what she's learned from her experience on the subscription platform in a new film she's working on with “The Florida Project” director Sean Baker.

“What are the ins and outs? What does a platform like this do to its users? What’s the connective material between your life and your life inside the world of OnlyFans?” Thorne explained. “How can it change your life for the worse and the better? How far are you willing to go, and how far do you WANT to go? You can be me, or this talented girl from Montana, and OnlyFans could change your life — if you want it to, of course.”