Drea de Matteo reveals daughter, 16, helps with photoshoots after launching OnlyFans career

Drea de Matteo has explained how much her two children have to do with her latest career move - and exactly what they think of it.

The actor, best known for her roles in The Sopranos and Sons Of Anarchy, has claimed that launching a page on OnlyFans 'saved' her family.

Despite its success and its ability to put food on the table, the 52-year-old admitted in a recent interview that she was initially hesitant about posting content online.

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She also revealed she felt she had little choice but to start after losing out on acting gigs due to her continued refusal of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Speaking to Club Random’s The Sage Steele Show, de Matteo opened up about the lucrative job as well as her children’s thoughts and feelings.

She said: “I had to sit them down the other day and be like, 'Look, I did a collaboration with Carmen Electra and these pictures are racy - I'm not gonna lie'.”

However, despite initial misgivings, the star claims her kids are now supportive of her new venture.

She revealed that her daughter Alabama, 16, who she shares with ex Shooter Jennings, has previously assisted with photoshoots for the site.

The actor added that Alabama ‘doesn’t care at all’ about the content she shares online - but her son Waylon, 12, was originally a different story.

“Sometimes I’ll put him in his place,” she explained. “Like 'Do you like that jacket you just asked me to buy you?'

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“'You like all the things that you want, that make you happy? You like that new PC that you begged for for Christmas? Because you wouldn’t have that s**t if Mommy didn’t show her a**'."

She continued to say that her retorts usually ‘shut’ her son - whom she also shares with 44-year-old Jennings - up because he can sometimes be a ‘little greedy little b**tard’.

Elsewhere in the conversation, de Matteo praised the relationship that she shares with her kids and relished in the fact they can be ‘so open about everything’.

She then went on to say that she has advised her children what to say if they are ridiculed by their friends.

"If they say anything, say 'Those boobies fed me when I was a little baby and they're still feeding me now',” de Matteo said.

Despite her son’s initial disapproval, de Matteo has continued to post content on OnlyFans since August 2023.

“I got a lot of heat for it,” she confessed about starting her page.

The actor also revealed that it was ‘the last trick’ up her sleeve to feed her children and ‘take care of everything’.

Speaking to MailOnline earlier this year, de Matteo said: “It saved my life, 100 percent. I can't believe I'm saying that, but it really did save us.

“Anybody that wants to condemn me and put me down, go for it. I just hope you never find yourself in the position I was in to take care of two little kids.”