OnlyFans Star Tells Louis Theroux She Bought Home After Making £5m
An OnlyFans star who made £5m from making adult content and selling bathwater online has told Louis Theroux how she no longer has a relationship with her father after he discovered her online persona.
Belle Delphine, 24, who was born in South Africa but lives in the UK, currently boasts over 3m Instagram followers and charges subscribers £28-a-month to access her OnlyFans content.
As a result of her huge online following, the social media star - whose real name is Mary-Belle Kirschner - was able to purchase her 'dream' eight-bedroom home in the Sussex countryside.
Appearing on the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, Belle explained how she tried to keep her job a secret from her father, who lives in South Africa.
However, she says he became suspicious how she could afford to buy a house and discovered her online persona - resulting in him no longer being in Belle's life.
During her conversation with Louis, Belle explained how she gained 1m Instagram followers in a month when she first pivoted her content away from fashion photos to more adult content in 2019.
She explained: 'I didn't think anything of it. My plan wasn't to become big or popular or anything like that.
'I just wanted enough money to move out of my mum's place.'
In summer 2019, Belle went viral when she began selling her bath water for £24-a-jar to her followers - resulting in her supplies selling out in two days.
The adult creator said she got inspiration for the idea from 'used panty' machines that she had read about in Japan.
She continued: 'i was trying to think of something more unique so I went down the [route] of selling my own spit or hair.
'But I didn't want to cut my hair and bokep indo it's very hard to produce a lot of spit. So then I was thinking of something else that's close to my physical body that I could produce and sell in a cute way that I thought was quite fun to do.'
The star's father, who is from Cape Town, worked in advertisement and film production, which is how he met Belle's model mother.
In summer 2019, Belle went viral when she began selling her bath water for £24-a-jar to her followers
Elsewhere in the podcast, Belle (pictured) detailed how obsessed fans have turned up at her mother's home and left notes telling her that she needed to pay her taxes
OnlyFans star Belle Delphine - who has made over £5m from her adult content - appears in the latest episode of Louis Theroux's Spotify podcast
The couple married after knowing each other for a year - around the time Belle's mother's visa ran out and she had fallen pregnant.
Reflecting on her relationship with her father, she said: 'There was no aspects of raising children that he seemed to enjoy.
'My childhood was very much tiptoeing around my dad.'
After their relationship broke down, Belle says she reached out to her father when she first bought her house to try and salvage things in early 2019.
Although Belle explained she had sympathy for her father's 'tough upbringing' and difficult character at times, she said this meant he was the 'only one she couldn't tell' about her work.