Sheena Sittner had been substitute teaching in the Ballwin area while running an OnlyFans account on the side for two years…until recently. That’s when someone came across her account and began spreading the news. The fallout was swift and harsh, which shouldn’t be a surprise because the St. Louis area has had more than its fair share of teachers/OnlyFans creators.
Sittner worked through Kelly Education, the staffing contractor that places substitute teachers in Missouri schools, and says her account had been live the entire time she was teaching, quietly generating income that supplemented a job that, by itself, wasn’t covering the bills. “If teachers were paid better, women wouldn’t have to resort to online content creation,” she told KTVI. “Sex sells.” But she’s mostly surprised it took so long for her account to become public knowledge. “It’s funny because I’ve had this account, this OnlyFans account, for two-plus years,” she said. “So, whoever did find it did some deep-dive digging, because two years later and now it’s being found out.”
What actually shocked Sittner wasn’t losing the substitute job itself. She says she always understood that risk. It was the scope of the fallout. Kelly Education informed her by email that she was suspended pending termination and instructed to “refrain from contacting any school or districts.” The language was so broad that Sittner initially read it as barring her from volunteering at her own son’s school. “It’s like all of a sudden I’ve done something so wrong and sinful that I’m not even allowed to volunteer at his school,” she said. “I can find another job. I can handle the backlash and the criticism, but when it affects my child or my children, that’s where I draw the line.” She’s been firm throughout that her professional and personal lives never overlapped in practice: “My personal life is completely separate from my professional life. I have kept those two separate forever.”
Kelly Education has since clarified the warning wasn’t as intense as Sittner thought. Instead, they say it applies only to her professional role while an investigation is underway, not to her rights as a parent. “During active investigations, we remove our substitute educators from current and future assignments while the matter is reviewed,” the company said. “It does not, and cannot, limit anyone’s right as a parent. Nothing in our request restricts their participation in their child’s education.” A spokesperson for the school district backed that up, confirming Sittner remains free to volunteer like any other parent, having already passed a background check and completed required safety training.
But Stittner had an idea of what to expect after watching a couple of full-time teachers go through similar experiences. Brianna Coppage, a former English teacher at St. Clair High School, lost her job in 2023 after her OnlyFans account was discovered, reportedly earning more from six months of content than nearly 24 years of her $42,000 teaching salary would have paid. Not long after, a second teacher from the same school, Megan Gaither, was outed the same way. A local newspaper reached out for comment before she’d even confirmed the account was hers, telling her the story was running regardless. Gaither in particular was devastated by losing her teaching job, something she talks about on the reality show both women appear on, TLC’s “Double Lives of Suburban Wives,” alongside four other St. Louis-area creators. Neither woman seems to know how they were outed, though Gaither suspects Coppage was involved in her situation.
But the pattern goes beyond St. Louis. Teachers around the world join OnlyFans because a teaching salary doesn’t always cover the bills. Many teachers need a side income, and this kind of content creation is incredibly lucrative. Sittner isn’t claiming she expected to avoid consequences forever. What she’s pushing back on is the idea that discovering an adult creator also teaches part-time should functionally end her presence in her own child’s school life.