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“Skins” star Megan Prescott compared her careers as an actress and sex worker in a Cosmopolitan UK interview published Wednesday.

In particular, many celebrities have dabbled in different avenues within sex work before getting their big break. But Prescott chose a different path.

“I’m going to profit from my body because you taught me it’s profitable,” Prescott told the outlet.

“Skins” is a controversial Coming-of-age show that was criticized for its depictions of teenagers involved in sex, drugs, and mayhem. Still, the program seems to have served as a career catalyst for many of its actors, including Dev Patel, Jack O’Connell and Nicholas Hoult.

Prescott played Katie Fitch in the third and fourth seasons of the hit British show when she was between 16 and 18 years old. On the show, Prescott’s character dated someone played by an actor almost twice his age.

“I had only had one boyfriend my age, and he [actor playing my boyfriend] “He was very kind, but he was 30 years old,” she told the outlet. “No one had the language of ‘Are you comfortable? Do you want to talk about what this scene is going to be like?'”

“Skins” aired from 2007 to 2013, but intimacy coordinators, who oversee intimate scenes on screen and on stage, didn’t gain popularity on sets until 2018, just after the Me Too movement gained steam in 2017.

Since the show’s conclusion, other “Skins” actresses have spoken out about their “traumatic” experiences on the show, including feeling unprotected during the show’s sex scenes.

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Prescott, now 34, said she had difficulty getting other acting jobs outside of the show because of its sexual and drug content. Finally, he began to undress.

She was reluctant at first, “but then I realized I literally have nothing to lose,” she said.

Prescott also told the outlet that sex work was more predictable and, in some ways, offered more protection than performing at the time.

She said, “if someone talks down to me or doesn’t pay,” while stripping, they can “catch this huge security guard.”

“Sex work was a big sigh of relief because it was black and white. You want me to strip for you and dance? It’s okay, I know what to expect. In acting… it’s not like that. It’s very vague,” she said, adding that in acting there was a constant fear of being replaced or blacklisted if I drew the line.

Prescott also talked about being an OnlyFans earner, which she said gave her the time and financial ability to be more creative.

She also talked about the negative stigma associated with sex work.

“Hypocrisy has always been with me,” he said. “I was on TV, as a kid, having sex scenes, on a show where a lot of people made a lot of money…if we’re collectively okay with that (and whether we should be or not is a different story), then why can’t I, as a grown woman, reclaim my image and my sexuality and earn three times as much?”