Katie O'Connor: Hi, listeners. Welcome, Rufi. KO: I'm so excited to be talking to you today. This was such a wild ride, and I just need to give our listeners a little bit of backstory here before we get started. So, as the title implies, Margo's got, well, money troubles. She is a single mom at 20 and is then fired from her waitressing job when she can't find childcare.
Now struggling with rent and the cost of living in California on unemployment, her father, Jinx, an ex pro wrestler, moves in with her and she launches an OnlyFans account using his advice on how to craft a character.
This is such a unique premise, and I'm curious, what was the originating idea for the story? RT: Okay, so I had in the back of my mind forever that I wanted to take the two ways our culture is messed up about women, like the Madonna-whore complex, and make a character who was a mom sex worker superhero, kind of. But I never could figure out how it would work because the stigma against sex work is so strong and the pedestal that we put moms on is so intense, but I just thought it would be really fun and subversive, like kind of the opposite of a virginal Wonder Woman-type figure.
And so I had had that idea in my head for the longest time, and then it was really at the beginning of the pandemic, there were a few stand-up comics that I followed on Twitter, women I really thought were funny and admired. And their ability to make a living went away with lockdown entirely. And so two of them wound up starting OnlyFans accounts, and I kind of watched them as they were launching their careers on OnlyFans.
And I was just really amazed at how much OnlyFans was this sort of like, people were willing to have the conversation a little bit more. It was more gray area. People weren't as quick to judge it, in part because the profit margin was so huge.
