Second teacher from Missouri school found with OnlyFans page. She says she’s on leave
When Brianna Coppage was put on administrative leave from her Missouri high school over the discovery of her OnlyFans page, Megan Gaither was hiding her own secret.
Gaither, who reportedly teaches at the same school and in the same department where Coppage previously did, was also moonlighting as an OnlyFans content creator. The 31-year-old teacher at St. Clair High School had more than 1,5000 subscribers when Coppage was caught, she told the Riverfront Times.
She deactivated her account, fearing the same repercussions Coppage faced, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
“When I left school, immediately, I was sitting in my car and I pulled up my OnlyFans and just deleted it,” she told the Riverfront Times. “I lost out on over $1,000 because I was just like, really it doesn’t matter. I didn’t want to get caught.”
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But when Gaither eventually appeared in one of Coppage’s videos, her secret came to light.
Her face did not appear in the video taken from a St. Louis hotel room, the Post-Dispatch reported, but some people were able to connect the dots.
“I was in like maybe four minutes of the entire thing, and I definitely did not think this would be the thing that would ruin my entire career,” Gaither told the publication.
Now, like Coppage, Gaither has reportedly been placed on administrative leave from the St. Clair school, about 50 miles southwest of St. Louis. Coppage resigned from the school in October.
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Kyle Kruse, the superintendent of the St. Clair R-XIII School District, told The Missourian the district would not comment on the situation involving Gaither.
“I did NOT want this to happen,” Gaither said in a Facebook post Oct. 29. “I hid very well behind an alias and no face pics. The fact of the matter is, this choice was taken from me.”
Gaither told the Post-Dispatch she was earning between $3,000 to $5,000 monthly on the content sharing site, popular for its often sexual photos and videos. She makes an annual salary of $47,500 at the school, which includes a stipend for being the head coach of the school’s cheerleading program.
She decided to pursue OnlyFans to make student loan payments after the completion of her second graduate degree, according to The Missourian.
“It’s not that we struggle, we do just fine, but we were really worried about how we were going to manage adding that massive bill,” she told the publication, speaking of her and her husband. “We were like, ‘Well, we could try this.’”
Gaither operated her OnlyFans page separately from Coppage. Despite being close friends, the two were unaware they were each on OnlyFans until the summer, according to the Riverfront Times.
Coppage’s suspension garnered national headlines and led to her page skyrocketing in popularity. Days after she was suspended, she boasted on her account that she was among the top .03% revenue generators on the site, McClatchy News reported.
She called it a “roller coaster,” telling multiple publications she resigned from the school. She said she would “try to make the most” of her new internet fame, McClatchy News reported.
Gaither, too, is eyeing a similar path. She told the Riverfront Times she expects to be fired and has opened a new OnlyFans account.
“I have to support my family. It’s just a non-negotiable at this time,” she said. “And I am short term doing that. But I am also thinking about my long term, because this is not teaching and it’s not English and education. So I am thinking about how I can adapt my passion for reading and teaching in different ways.”
Though she has received some negative remarks, she stands by her decision to be an adult content creator.
“I made the adult choice of getting a side hustle,” she said on Facebook. “And guess what? It’s working out so far.”
