Kate Nash: Why OnlyFans Is Funding My Music Career!

Begin Again with Davina McCall

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Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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What if staying true to yourself cost you everything? In this episode of Begin Again, Kate Nash opens up about the reality of building a career in an industry that often tries to control, define, and silence you. From becoming a breakout star at 18 to being labelled, misunderstood, and written off, Kate shares what it really feels like to grow up in the public eye and fight to stay yourself. She speaks candidly about the music industry today, why it’s no longer sustainable for artists, and the difficult decisions she’s had to make to keep her career alive including starting an OnlyFans to fund her tours. For Kate, it’s not about controversy, it's about survival, independence, and refusing to play by rules that no longer work. This conversation also explores the emotional side of that fight. The pressure to be perfect, the anger that once fuelled her, and the conscious decision to move beyond it. Kate reflects on identity, feminism, and the power of women supporting each other in a world that often tries to pit them against one another. At its core, this is a story about resilience, creative freedom, and what it takes to take back control on your own terms. 🌟 Follow for more honest conversations about identity, growth, and beginning again. Follow us here: 📸 www.instagram.com/beginagain 🎥 https://www.tiktok.com/@beginagainpod Follow Kate: https://www.instagram.com/katenash/ ✨Sign up for the Begin Again newsletter for all your behind the scenes access, recommendations and much much more at: https://linkly.link/2g2xx (00:00) Intro (00:01:31) Intro to Kate Nash, fame and problems of public image (00:04:51) Exploring identity and history through music (00:08:01) The evolution of Kate’s Music and dealing with online hate (00:12:34) Kate's Catholic upbringing, the challenges of Shame (00:19:15) Kate's relationship with her sisters (00:23:06) Do Health Ad (00:24:27) Bloom and Wild Ad (00:25:29) Kate's heart surgery (00:32:17) Kate deciding to quit her job and start performing music (00:36:26) Dealing with fame (00:39:20) Manager stealing from her, and healing from (00:47:33) Moving to LA (00:48:57) Kate's breakout role in Netflix series *Glow*, and learning to wrestle (00:58:31) Why the music industry is broken! (01:01:41) Starting an OnlyFans account to fund her career (01:06:04) How fans can support the music industry (01:08:23) Kate's protest around London (01:12:00) The reasons Kate is fighting for the music industry and culture (01:16:12) A surprise letter for KateSponsored by: Do Health - The waitlist is open. Begin Again listeners get fixed early access pricing when they sign up today at dohealth.co/beginagain use code BEGINAGAIN Bloom & Wild - use code DAVINA for 15% off at https://www.bloomandwild.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=begin_again Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I got famous, I was like, oh, I hate this.
0:02.8	I hate this so much.
0:04.5	You like the sort of British attitude of just like,
0:07.0	oh, prove yourself for the rest of your life,
0:09.0	even though we do love that song, but you.
0:11.0	And you're just like, okay.
0:17.0	I don't think people understand how brave
0:20.0	you have to be to be 100% honest.
0:21.6	And Kate Nash, you are what we are missing in the entertainment industry.
0:26.6	When I was young, I wanted to be good.
0:28.6	I love doing my books and my home, but also I want to be a musician, I want to be an actor.
0:32.6	You had an experience when you were younger that just blew my mind. My mum, he felt my chest and my
0:39.7	heart was going, and we went straight to hospital. I basically found out I had this heart
0:45.7	condition and I was working in Nando's and I took time of Nando's to have heart surgery. I had this
0:51.3	moment of, I don't want to go back to Nando's. I want to live. I just went for it. But then I was in the gutter. Everything that I went through in my career, getting dropped, getting stolen from, being 18 in the Daily Mail, like, deciding this is who you are. How did that happen? In the music industry, we are treated like fools. The contracts that we sign, You sign them at 17, it's fine, you'll be in it until you're 67. They'll own 80% of everything you're like. But you know, it's the way. But there's dreams I have, things I want to achieve. I would sabotage them all to get vengeance. They'll really have to come and meet us at the line. And we decide where the line is, you know, my bum and the government.
1:29.6	We've got something for you.
1:30.7	I can't, I'm in shock.
1:38.7	I mean, I was really looking forward to this today because you are, I feel like you are what we are missing in the entertainment industry in the broader, because you're not just a musician.
1:45.6	It's not just in music.
1:46.9	It's like music and acting.
1:49.7	You are a maverick.
1:52.2	And you are truly yourself.
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