Olympic Rower Supplementing His Income With OnlyFans

The 34-year-old Kiwi Olympic rower Robbie Manson says he is taking advantage of his looks while they are at peak performance.

In addition to living out his dreams in the Olympic Games for his country, Manson admitted that he has been fueling his dreams with OnlyFans.

Manson said the adults-only website allows him to earn "double" what he would make as an athlete.

"Read into that what you will, but I am making more from OnlyFans than I am from rowing at this stage," he told Reuters, NBC reported. "I thought, if I'm going to do it, you have to tell everyone, be really open and I think you need to feel that any publicity is good publicity."

Manson said he was inspired to get in on the OnlyFans craze by Australian diver Matthew Mitchum, the first openly gay athlete to win Olympic gold at the Beijing Games.

"The fact that I'm gay, I have the gay following and the audience already, and I'm slightly leaning into that," said Manson. "I wouldn't say it's for everyone, (but) for other athletes, there's definitely an opportunity there."

Manson said his page shares "artistic" nudes, and he doesn't have much plans to do anything more.

"I don't want to say too much more than that, I think people need to subscribe if they want to know what's exactly on there," he said. "But in the captions, I just try to give people a little bit of an update from time to time, like what's going on in my life or training or journey to this point, towards the Olympics."

And after some initial jitters about letting his adults-only secret out, Manson said he warmed up to the idea eventually.

"I guess a little bit, I just kind of did a post – I had thought about it and set it up in the background," he said. "And then it was like 'Oh, I don't know if I want to tell everyone.' But you have to. I think that's the thing."