'Harry Potter' Star Jessie Cave Admits She Felt 'Embarrassed' Joining OnlyFans Amid Financial Struggles

Jessie Cave opened up about the difficult decision to join OnlyFans while raising her family.

"So, it was embarrassing," Cave, who shares four children with longtime partner Alfie Brown, said during an interview on the U.K. talk show This Morning.

She added, "Because on a certain level, I would have really liked to get a job. But you know what it’s like, you have kids. It costs so much for childcare."

Cave addressed assumptions about how much she earned from the Harry Potter franchise.

"People just assume I’m rich and I have loads of money and no I don’t," Cave, who played Lavender Brown in the franchise’s final three films, said.

"I had a small-ish part, and it was 20 years ago," she continued.

Cave described herself as a "struggling artist" who mainly works on one-woman puppet shows.

Her OnlyFans account gives her another way to earn money while continuing her creative work.

"This is how I’m making a living as an artist," she said.

She continued, "I want to have less shame about it. I want other people who do weird art like me, I want them to know that there is some way of still making [it]."

Cave launched her account in March 2025 and focuses her content on hair, building a niche audience around the subject.

"It's very much geared toward people who have an interest or fetish with hair," she said on the "Before We Break Up Again" podcast on March 10, 2025.

"I do a lot of videos with my hair on Instagram and I have now for a while. I just noticed that I always get comments," she admitted.

The 39-year-old also explained what prompted her to pursue the idea.

"They’re never sexually depraved or lascivious. It's never dirty comments, but I do get lots of interest in the hair thing and I just thought, 'F--- it, I'm going to do something that is very niche,'" she added.

Cave later revealed that the platform became far more financially successful than she initially expected.

"I’ve earned more, easily, than my entire acting career within one year," Cave told The Times.

She continued, "I see people on Instagram posting bikini shots or s--- stuff and I think, 'You could be charging for this! You’re losing money!' I see that being the future. Everyone will be paying for everything."

Cave reportedly earned £15,000 (~$20,000 USD) after just one day on the platform, but she said the biggest impact came from what the income allowed her to do for her family.

"I thought I’d make five grand, be on it for a few months and it would buy me time to work out what we’re going to do," she said.

She concluded, "But it’s now been over a year and a half, and it’s genuinely saved our lives."