Jessica Aszkenasay has a master’s in journalism, studied law in France, and worked as a financial journalist and data analyst — but she gave it all up to become a clown.
The 31-year-old took her savings (that she’d planned to use to buy a house) and spent it on a year-long course at the Gaulier clown school in France, but it wasn’t enough. Aszkenasay began to explore what jobs she could do while continuing her clown education, she saw a woman who had left behind a career as a neuroscientist to join OnlyFans, and she was intrigued.
Instead of trying to find a minimum wage job, she watched YouTube tutorials, listened to podcasts, and did research on how to create a successful OnlyFans account. And she did it, using the information she learned to focus on Reddit as a marketing channel to drive traffic to her OnlyFans account. Focusing on the over-30 girl-next-door niche, Aszkenasay told herself: “If this does well, it could make me a lot of money; I won’t have to go back to my boring day job, and I can manage my time and put more energy into my clown show.”
She made £2,000 her first month on the platform, thanks to the subscribers she accumulated and the custom videos that she makes for requests — plus the occasional tip here and there. Because her goal isn’t to be an OnlyFans star (she is just using it to fund her real dream), she doesn’t mind staying around that amount financially, especially since she only works two to three hours a day
But joining OnlyFans helped her get through clown school and pursue her dream of becoming a clown comedian, which is what she’s doing right now. She is performing her comedy show, TiTClown, in Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival. Her show is a blend of her clowning and comedy, which she describes as “a sexy, very funny, red-paint-splattered-on-my-boobs car crash.”
But the festival only lasts a few weeks, so Aszkenasay plans to keep her OnlyFans account going. She thinks that if she devoted more time to the account (thanks to the festival, she’s only spending about half an hour a day on the platform) she could quadruple her income on the platform.
Aszkenasay isn’t doing Bonnie Blue kind of content, though. She describes it more as “soft-core” with a bit of flashing, less sleeping with hundreds of men. It’s not that she’s shaming Bonnie Blue, it’s that Aszkenasay considers herself “very lazy” and that kind of content sounds like too much work for her.
Her time on the platform has changed her perspective on men while also reinforcing her feminist beliefs — and her decision to join in the first place. Once the festival wraps up, she’ll focus more time on OnlyFans while developing an idea for her next show.