Ex-teacher on TLC show says best month of adult content hit $550,000
by The Washington Times AI News Desk · The Washington TimesBrianna Coppage, the former Missouri high school English teacher who resigned in 2023 after her adult-content work came to light, says her best month in the business brought in $550,000. That is more than she earned in a full year in the classroom.
Ms. Coppage, who appears on TLC’s “Double Lives of Suburban Wives,” made the claim in an interview with Fox News Digital. “Oh, my best month was 550,000,” she said. She said she now earns more in a single month than she did in a year of teaching, and that she would never take the job back if offered.
She taught at St. Clair High School in Franklin County, Missouri, before district officials learned of her adult-content account and placed her on administrative leave. She resigned, saying she wanted the school’s students to be able to return to normal. Her profile on the platform then read, “Yes, I’m THAT teacher.”
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Her teacher salary was $42,000, according to earlier coverage. By November 2023, she said she had made nearly $1 million in under six months on the platform. The earnings figures are self-reported and could not be independently verified.
Ms. Coppage also said she questions whether the consequences of her adult-content work were justified. She said no morality clause existed in her employment, calling the idea a misconception, and that the district could not point to a specific rule she broke. Teaching, she added, comes with professional expectations, and she described the question as one of morality.
She said the income paid off her family’s debts, including her student loans, and ended her practice of putting groceries on credit cards. The biggest cost, she said, has been the loss of privacy.
The show, according to TLC, follows six St. Louis-area couples who work in adult content while navigating marriage and parenthood. Ms. Coppage said she and her husband, Phillip, have faced trust and boundary problems on camera. She said his conduct was not a physical act but was still a breach of trust and a betrayal, and that the couple turned to therapy.
Asked how she would respond if her daughter wanted the same career as an adult, Ms. Coppage said she would not encourage it. She said she would first want her daughter to be safe and have accurate information, and that she would offer her the same acceptance she seeks for herself.
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