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Like many semi-famous people, Donna D’Errico is making big money these days with her own account on a members-only pay site online.
The September 1995 Playmate of the Month hasn’t done much in Hollywood since her 18 episode run on Baywatch and 34 episode stint on its spinoff Baywatch Nights came to an end in 1998. (Her one season as the host of BattleBots, notwithstanding.)
Thankfully, for celebrities like her, the now 55-year-old D’Errico lives in a world where all you have to do is sign up for one of the numerous members-only websites, share some photos of yourself, and watch the money roll in to your bank account.
“It’s just way more than I anticipated that it would be,” she said, referring to the money she makes. “I wish I’d done it years ago, honestly.”
She recently spoke to Fox News about what that life is like.
“You know, in the beginning, I got a lot of, or some requests, for feet,” she revealed. “I don’t really get that anymore. Now, they mostly want to see me, like in everyday life, just the real me and everyday life.”
Understandable. It probably beats spending all your time online being in a pretend relationship with an AI girlfriend.
As for what her most common request is now from her many fans online, D’Errico said, “Maybe wearing a T-shirt, making coffee or, you know, just that kind of thing. That’s the biggest request.”
The ex-wife of Motley Crue co-founder Nikki Sixx added that she often has fans just ask her to take a picture of herself “right now.”
“‘I want to see what you look like right now,'” she says they often ask.
“I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t have any makeup on and my hair is in a ponytail, and I’m kind of in sweats,'” she said she replies back. “‘I don’t care. I want to see that.’ So, they like that because I think it gives them kind of that what I call ‘the girlfriend experience.'”
D’Errico says she calls it “the girlfriend experience” because her fans “get to log in and have fun kind of having an experience that they would have if they had a girlfriend.”
You know, without all the hassle of having an actual girlfriend. Win-win!