Danielle Lloyd says the cash she makes from her OnlyFans accounts "pays her mortgage and feeds her children".
The 38-year-old relaunched her account on the adults-only subscription platform in December - one month after she gave birth to her daughter Autumn. She also has four sons, Ronnie, Archie, George and Harry.
Subscribers can access exclusive photos of former Miss England Danielle for a monthly fee. However, she said some critics expressed the view that she "shouldn't be doing it as [she has] kids."
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Danielle has now opened about the success she has had through her account, while defending her right to post sexy snaps amid the recent backlash, the Mirror reports. The former WAG suggested that it's no different that previous photoshoots she has done, with her stating in the recent interview that she has lived her "whole career doing lad mags."
Speaking to new! magazine, she said: "If I want to post a picture of me holding my boobs and covering my nipples, who cares? There is nothing on there which hasn't been seen before. It's helping me put food in my kids' mouths and paying my mortgage. And if my husband doesn't mind me being on it, then why do you?"
Danielle said that "thankfully" such a reaction has now stopped, but recalled people criticising her for doing it after giving birth to daughter Autumn, now 4 months old. Danielle said that she even gets husband Michael O'Neill - whom she married after divorcing footballer Jamie O'Hara, 35 - to take the photos of her that she uses on OnlyFans.
She said she is in the "top 3% of earners" on OnlyFans and is "doing pretty well".
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