How OnlyFans star even bigger than Bonnie Blue made £5 million from her ‘good girl’ image – before scandal hit
SHE’S Australia’s top OnlyFans model – with a £5 million fortune and a platform even bigger than Bonnie Blue.
But Anna Paul is now haemorrhaging followers after scandals tarnished her ‘good girl’ persona.
The 25-year-old has become one of the top 0.01% of earners on the site after seven years of modelling, but it seems her crown is slipping.
The brunette beauty is embroiled in a feud with her ex-best friend and brother Atis Paul’s ex-girlfriend, who has called Anna Paul out as fake on social media.
As well as being one of OnlyFans’ best-selling stars, Anna has an army of fans on TikTok where she shares more family-friendly content.
She’s often videoing her life, either relaxing by the pool in her bikini or showing off the luxe life her family lives in her Australian mansion.
The star has over 6 million followers on the site, most of whom are a younger audience, and now has 2.3 million fans on Instagram – but she recently lost half a million overnight.
And former fans have been quick to call her out on her social media, with one writing: “The down fall of Anna Paul.”
Another penned: “Your silence is so loud.”
“The Aussie sweetheart exposed,” chimed in a third.
Here Fabulous looks at the rise and fall of the millionaire and it all started with a tell-all TikTok video.
Fighting for Scraps
Last month, fellow OnlyFans creator Mikaela Testa and ex-friend of Anna’s dished out an 8-minute long video slamming her for lying to her audience and ‘scamming’ them.
The pair were friends for ten years, but their relationship fizzled out after Mikaela and Atis – Anna’s brother broke up which left Anna’s fans also coming for Mikaela.
She stayed quiet for months but recently brought fresh claims against her former friend, alleging she has fans fighting for scraps.
In the statement she began: “There’s a lot of things wrong with Anna Paul.
“It’s way easier to hate me for calling her out when she’s wrong than accepting that the Anna you guys love and idolize so much never existed.
“You don’t know her. You don’t know her like I know her.
“You have never met her. And if you have, it’s nothing more than a five second selfie.”
Not only does Anna share daily vlogs of her life, she has also posted many a video of herself hiding money in public places around the world for her followers to find which Mikaela called ‘performative generosity’ for views.
“(It) reeks of superiority. Watching her fans scramble over scraps, fighting each other because they need these funds, while she films it, flaunts her designer labels, endless holidays and material excess.
“This is dystopian and out of touch.”
Not only would she do this, which Anna has documented in videos placing hundreds of pounds in item packaging in stores, she would also get people to sign up to her paywall content on OnlyFans for $10.99 a month to be in with the chance of entering giveaways.
Mikaela claims Anna’s following is young and is exploiting them to see sexual content, but Anna has hit back, saying 93.8% of her followers are over 18 on Instagram, where she announces giveaways.
“It’s exploitation, particularly for her young audience,” she said.
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Pity Party
Mikaela, who first met Anna when they were both 15, recalls her childhood well and Anna’s.
While Anna has consistently said online that she has grown up poor – Mikaela claims this couldn’t be further from the truth and is yet another way Anna manipulates her fans.
In the past, Anna has said her parents regularly lived on $30 a week and were almost made to live on the streets.
Another video saw Anna say she and her brother would wrap water bottles up and place them under the tree to make it look like they had presents.
She adds: “They were raised with amazing parents that provided a lot for them.
“Their dad making triple the average Australian income per week had them living in a beautiful house on the water with a built in pool. I’ve seen the house in person. It’s beautiful. Being upper middle class is not being poor.”
The chaos that has ensued has gone viral online with many people choosing to take sides.
While Anna has always had a girl next door feel about her, many of her fans are coming out to say they can see where it might be fake.
Anna has been open in the past that she now funds her family’s lifestyle and has allowed her parents to retire early.
She’s often seen travelling first class around the world with her family in tow as well as relaxing at her mansion located on the Gold Coast of Australia.
Body Positivity
she called fans ‘fat’ despite being an advocate for body positivity online.
She recalled one time in 2021 when Anna was ‘peak body positivity’ when a plus-size fan came up to Anna for a hug and picture.
According to Mikaela, Anna’s attitude was far from the picture she painted in public.
“You smiled at her. You told her that you loved her,” she continued.
“She told you how your words online have helped her be more comfortable in her body. The moment she walked away, you told Atis that she was annoying and gross and you didn’t want to agree to the hug because she was fat and sweaty.”
In one recent video, Anna showed herself with bare skin and like most of us, her skin wasn’t perfect.
Instead of putting on a filter or make-up to cover it she left it natural to help her followers feel more confident with themselves too.
She said: “When my skin is bad, I feel so ugly. But I’m not allowed to, because you guys are watching this and some of your skin is bad, and I don’t want you to feel ugly.
“So I’m promoting confidence.
“I’m rocking it. Look, I’m posting. I don’t care and you shouldn’t care either.”
Hitting Back
Five days after Mikaela’s video and her followers count swindling by 1 million across her platforms, Anna finally responded with her own statement on the matter.
She revealed that the reason it had taken her so long to respond was that the clip was a huge surprise to her.
“Somebody that I thought was my friend and that I was close with really hurt me. And 2 months ago she was asking me to go to Fiji with her on a girls trip.”
Anna first responded to the accusation that she called her fans fat and sweaty, adding that there is some truth to it.
“Now I do not call my fans fat. That is not who I am. That is not what I stand for
“Um, sweaty, however, I may have called her sweaty. because when somebody is wet and they touch you and then they leave and when you’re with your best friend and you are now wet because of them you may say I am now wet.”
Anna failed to respond to claims she was sending fans to Only fans for giveaways but did explain that she ‘felt broke’ while growing up – rather than being poor.
She explained: “When I say I grew up broke that is my experience that is how I felt when I can hear my parents talking in the kitchen that the budget for the groceries that week is $30, it makes me feel broke, when we can’t afford school uniforms it makes me feel broke, when I’m 11 when I’m 10 and all my friends can afford something and my parents can’t, it makes me feel broke, when they say ooh I don’t know how we’re gonna afford rent next week that makes me scared and makes me feel broke.
“That does not mean that I was the most broke person on earth, there are definitely people in way worse situations than me.”
Despite Anna attempting to set the record straight – her follower count is still down and people and the majority of social media users are yet to side with her.
Many say they felt ‘gaslit’ by her statement, that it was an ‘act’ and didn’t buy into her ‘feeling broke’ story.
One penned: “”FEEL BROKE” is an insane statement.”
“Thanks! I haven’t felt this gaslit since dating my ex,” another wrote
A third said: “Are we buying this guys or nah??”
Someone else added: “The act is INSANE.”