Denise Richards Reveals Why Daughter Sami’s OnlyFans ‘Upset’ Her

Denise Richards is setting the report straight. She was “upset” after her now-20-year-old daughter Sami launched her personal OnlyFans account at 18 — but it surely’s not for the rationale you would possibly count on. Whereas some mothers is perhaps fearful about their youngsters getting cash on the sexually express platform, the Wild Issues star is completely nice with it. The one drawback? Different individuals’s response to her daughter’s risqué enterprise endeavors.

“At first, I didn’t perceive what OnlyFans was,” Richards stated in a brand new cowl interview with PEOPLE. However then she discovered extra about it, and when she noticed the backlash, her mama bear claws got here out. “Once I noticed that she was getting backlash for proudly owning her sexuality and doing what she wished to do, it upset me as a mother and in addition as a girl in enterprise,” Richards defined.

Good for her! In spite of everything, Sami is an grownup, and there may be nothing fallacious with adults getting cash on OnlyFans, the place they’ll select in the event that they wish to promote photographs, movies, livestreams, and extra, and if and the way a lot nudity to indicate. In reality, Richards is so OK with it, she made an OnlyFans account herself, which she says is “fairly profitable.”

Within the interview, Sami shared her ideas on the matter: “I want she’d waited a bit as a result of she began it proper after me but it surely doesn’t trouble me.” Richards’ daughter Lola, who was just lately baptized within the Christian church, added, “No matter makes her glad.”

This laissez-faire angle is a marked change from Richards’ reported emotions when Sami first launched the account. In 2023, a supply instructed PEOPLE that Sami referring to herself as a “intercourse employee” is reportedly “inflicting loads of drama” at residence.

In line with the insider, Richards “is aware of her daughter isn’t a intercourse employee. She’s simply saying outrageous issues. She doesn’t even present any pores and skin on OnlyFans. Sami has 4,000 followers. So she’s making $80,000 a month doing virtually nothing and barely displaying something. She’s simply teasing the viewers. She’s probably not doing any nudity in any respect. So that is simply her titillating individuals by saying that.”

The supply, who revealed that Richards makes “$2 million a month” on her personal OnlyFans account, added, “Denise says she needs to help her daughter. She believes that after they flip 18, it’s actually exhausting to manage what they do. You possibly can solely advise them. And Denise realizes she did Playboy herself — OnlyFans is simply the fashionable model of that.”

The previous Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star shares Sami and Lola with ex Charlie Sheen. She can be mother to daughter Eloise, 13, who she adopted as an toddler. The teenager has a chromosomal dysfunction that has brought about some developmental delays, however as Richards notes, she holds the household collectively. “Eloise may be very observant and understands every little thing,” she instructed PEOPLE within the new cowl story. “Typically when the ladies go at one another, she simply raises her eyebrows after which they chortle and may get previous no matter silly factor they’re combating about.”

The previous Playboy mannequin, who’s now married to Aaron Phypers, opened up about her 2005 cut up from Sheen and the way it affected her daughters. “They’ve been via so much,” she stated. “I did my greatest to shelter them. There have been instances they have been upset with me, however I inform them there’s no handbook. I did the very best I may beneath the circumstances.”

Proper now, Richards is simply glad to be working together with her daughters on their new actuality sequence, Denise Richards & Her Wild Issues, which premieres on March 4 on Bravo. On Tori Spelling’s misSPELLING podcast in Aug. 2024, she stated her household’s determination to be on a actuality present was “a giant determination.”

“So this was a very long time, with all of us speaking about it as a result of I wished to guarantee that the ladies have been actually desirous to do it,” she continued. “We’ve opened up our lives and we’re doing it proper now and attempting to navigate all of that. So, they have been enthusiastic about it. We had a number of conferences and speaking, and, so we’re doing that now.”

She added, “I’m excited that we’re doing it and I believe it’s enjoyable, and it’s a terrific alternative for us as a household to do one thing collectively, too.”

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