Amber Rose Explained How She Told Her 9-Year-Old Son About Her OnlyFans Career
"These kids, if they don't learn from you, they're going to learn from TikTok and Instagram."
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Amber Rose wants her kids to hear about her life straight from the source — and not on TikTok.
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The model and actress said she recently had to have a conversation with her nine-year-old son Sebastian after he learned about her OnlyFans page from a friend.
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"Somebody told him, 'Your mom is on OnlyFans," Amber said during an appearance on Emily Ratajkowski's High Low with EmRata podcast.
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She continued, "And I was during the pandemic. I had to work. I had a whole conversation with him about it."
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Amber says that she figures Sebastian's friend heard it from their parents and she told him that those people are "ignorant."
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"I just explained everything to him. Like, when it comes to women, you have to let women do what they need to do to support their families," she said.
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Amber added, "You want to go to a nice school? Six Flags? Universal? Travel? Mommy has to make money."
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She says she also told him that she was a stripper years ago, explaining that she "desensitized" instead of him "finding out when he's 20."
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"Ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, when my son is 20, 30 years old, he's not gonna be like, 'Mom I hate you because you were a stripper before I was born,'" Amber said.
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She continued, "It's just the dumbest shit. I don't understand how people think it's a big deal."
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And in a message directed at Emily, she noted that it's important to share these things with their children because so much of their lives are publicly available online.
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"These kids, if they don't learn from you, they're going to learn from TikTok and Instagram," Amber concluded.
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You can listen to all that Amber had to say here.
"These kids, if they don't learn from you, they're going to learn from TikTok and Instagram."
by Alex Gurley
BuzzFeed Contributor
View 29 comments
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Amber Rose wants her kids to hear about her life straight from the source — and not on TikTok.
Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for The Recording Academy
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The model and actress said she recently had to have a conversation with her nine-year-old son Sebastian after he learned about her OnlyFans page from a friend.
Phillip Faraone / WireImage / Getty Images
"Somebody told him, 'Your mom is on OnlyFans," Amber said during an appearance on Emily Ratajkowski's High Low with EmRata podcast.
@emrata / Via instagram.com
She continued, "And I was during the pandemic. I had to work. I had a whole conversation with him about it."
Phillip Faraone / Getty Images
Amber says that she figures Sebastian's friend heard it from their parents and she told him that those people are "ignorant."
Paras Griffin / Getty Images
"I just explained everything to him. Like, when it comes to women, you have to let women do what they need to do to support their families," she said.
John Parra / Getty Images for Wild 'N Out Sports Bar
Amber added, "You want to go to a nice school? Six Flags? Universal? Travel? Mommy has to make money."
Tommaso Boddi / Getty Images for Simply Be
She says she also told him that she was a stripper years ago, explaining that she "desensitized" instead of him "finding out when he's 20."
Mindy Small / FilmMagic / Getty Images
"Ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, when my son is 20, 30 years old, he's not gonna be like, 'Mom I hate you because you were a stripper before I was born,'" Amber said.
Vivien Killilea / Getty Images for Reebok
She continued, "It's just the dumbest shit. I don't understand how people think it's a big deal."
Prince Williams / WireImage / Getty Images
And in a message directed at Emily, she noted that it's important to share these things with their children because so much of their lives are publicly available online.
Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for The Recording Academy
"These kids, if they don't learn from you, they're going to learn from TikTok and Instagram," Amber concluded.
Phillip Faraone / Getty Images
You can listen to all that Amber had to say here.
