Linda Lusardi’s stark warning to OnlyFans creators that they will ‘regret’ their adult content later in life has been reinforced after she admitted she now ‘cringes’ looking back at her time modelling for Page Three.

The former glamour model, 66, was once one of Britain’s best known Page Three girls in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning the topless shoots at just 18 years old and continuing for the next 12 years.

However, after pivoting to a career in acting and TV presenting, this week she admitted she no longer agrees with the ‘shameful’ tabloid practice and now believes ‘it was wrong’ to strip off for men’s entertainment.

And it’s not the first time that Linda has suggested she’s had a change in atтιтude to revealing content, after she previously voiced her concern for the women raking in the cash on adult subscription site OnlyFans.

The X-rated platform has seen a surge in popularity over the past few years, with the biggest creators making eye-watering amounts through their risque posts and a slew of celebrities even hopping onboard to make their fortune.

But in 2021, Linda confessed the controversial site ‘feels weird’ to her and not something that she would ever use, adding: ‘I don’t think it fits in today’s society at all.’

Linda Lusardi ‘s stark warning to OnlyFans creators that they would ‘regret’ their adult content has resurfaced, after she admitted she now ‘cringes’ looking back at her time modelling for Page 3 (pictured in December)

The former glamour model, 66, was once one of Britain’s best known Page 3 girls in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning the topless shoots at just 18 years old and continuing for the next 12 years (seen in 1982)

However, after pivoting to a career in acting and TV presenting, this week she admitted she no longer agrees with the ‘shameful’ tabloid practice and now believes ‘it was wrong’ to strip off for men’s entertainment (pictured in 1988)

She insisted that stars would be ‘haunted for the rest of their lives’ by their content as it would cause problems if they wanted children or when dating, fearing a situation arising where a creator’s partner had loved ones who had been subscribers.

Giving her take on OnlyFans to The Sun, she confessed: ‘It’s not something I would entertain. I know that a lot of people are making a lot of money, but it just feels weird to me. 

‘Because it isn’t “only” for the fans, is it? People can screensH๏τ or film you and then it’s out there to haunt you for the rest of your life. What if your life moves in a different direction?

‘I think sometimes the girls haven’t thought about when they have children, who might well see their mother in a situation she later regrets. Even if you’re not in a relationship, it could affect you when you meet someone. What if they have friends or family who have “tuned into” you in the past? It feels a bit underhand.’

The soap star acknowledged her remarks could sound ‘hypocritical’ given how she came to fame, but said there was an additional a risk that subscribers could become ‘obsessed’.

Linda said: ‘Maybe it’s a bit hypocritical of me and earning a living is fine, but what if someone got obsessed with you or found out where you lived? If they’re talking to them personally on there, I feel that would be a risk.” 

And while she insisted she personally holds no regrets over her former career – branding it ‘great’ because she was ‘young and enjoying life’ – she admitted ‘it was a very different time’ and wouldn’t choose the same path if she could go back in time.

She added: ‘I did lots of work with my clothes on as well, mind, but I know that everyone knows me for what went in the papers. If I could speak to my 20-year-old self, I’d say: “Don’t take your clothes off – become an actress instead.”‘

She insisted that stars would be ‘haunted for the rest of their lives’ by their content as it would cause problems if they wanted children or when dating, such as if a creator’s partner had loved ones who had been subscribers (seen with her daughter in 2018)

The soap star acknowledged her remarks could sound ‘hypocritical’ given how she came to fame, but said there was an additional a risk that subscribers could become ‘obsessed’ (seen 1982)

Linda had previously recalled the awkward moment that her daughter Lucy Kane had first learned about her mother’s unusual former career when she was just seven years old.

Appearing on Loose Women alongside Lucy in 2017, she said: ‘I was a Page 3 girl ten years before Lucy was born. I feel like I’m talking about a different person when I speak about those days of my life.’

‘We were clearing out the loft and we got all my cuttings. I thought: “Oh dear, how do I deal with this?” I think Lucy was about seven. 

‘And I said: “Look this is what Mummy used to do Lucy, I used to do pictures in the paper.” And she went: “Oh Mummy, that’s a lovely sH๏τ. Shame you forgot to put your bra on.”‘

Lucy , who has pursued a career as a singer and appeared on The Voice, has insisted she would never follow in her mother’s footsteps to do glamour modelling. But the songwriter admitted she would get ‘a lot of MILF comments’ having Linda as her mum. 

She told The Sun: ‘I’ve never gone topless. I just don’t think it’s for me.’

It comes after Linda reflected on her past in a candid new interview, admitting she now finds her shoots  ’embarrᴀssing’ and the way women were treated as ‘shameful’.

Linda had previously recalled the awkward moment that her daughter Lucy Kane had first learned about her mother’s unusual former career when she was just seven (seen with children Lucy and Jack in 2010)

Speaking to Kaye Adams on the latest episode of her How To Be 60 podcast this week about her glamour modelling days, Linda confessed: ‘I cringe at it now. 

‘The further I get from it and the more times are changing and atтιтudes are changing to all that sort of stuff, I suppose I find it slightly embarrᴀssing.

‘It wasn’t anything to be ashamed of in those days, but looking back now, with today’s eyes, it’s like everything in those days was shameful. The way men treated women was shameful.

She admitted: ‘Most of my jobs were for calendars which were [sH๏τ] on beaches. We’d have an absolute ball and I was in that bubble where everyone was doing the same work, so you didn’t feel looked down upon, although the public didn’t look down upon you in those days.

‘But now, looking back, I realise how wrong it was and how women shouldn’t be depicted like that and the language men used for women in those days was wrong.’ 

Linda said that looking back on her Page Three days through a modern society lens feels ‘jarring’ now.

She explained: ‘It feels like a different life now – I gave up nearly 40 years ago. When people say Page Three, it jars with me because it’s so un-PC now. 

‘It really doesn’t fit with today’s society at all, but at the time I was quite proud of it. It was just seen as something that was everyday; it was in people’s newspapers.’

It comes after Linda reflected on her past in a candid new interview, admitting she now finds her shoots ’embarrᴀssing’, and that ‘looking back, I realise how wrong it was and how women shouldn’t be depicted like that’ (seen in 1986)

Linda also told How To Be 60 that she now sympathised with former MP Clare Short, who proposed banning newspapers from publishing pH๏τographs of topless models in a Private Members Bill in the House of Commons in 1986.

At the time she was vilified for the campaign, but Linda said: ‘In retrospect I do have some sympathy for Clare Short, absolutely; she was just ahead of her time.’

Linda was working as a filing clerk in a tax office when she was stopped on the way home from work and offered work as a model.

But she admitted that while her dad was proud of her new career, it caused embarrᴀssment to her mum. 

‘My mum was a tax officer, so she wasn’t too pleased when people came in the office and said: “Ooh your daughter’s in the paper today.” She was slightly embarrᴀssed,’ she said

‘But my dad just thought it was great. If people didn’t know it was me, he’d tell them: “Oh, she’s a Page Three girl,’ which sounds really weird these days that somebody would be proud of that, but things were so different then.’

In 2019, she told the Daily Mail how she had been astonished by the money that she was raking in from posing topless.

She said: ‘For someone to take my picture and pay me what was a week’s wages in the tax office where I used to work, for an hour’s shoot, was just unbelievable.

‘Once you were in that world with the other Page Three girls, it was like being in a little club. It was amazing. I had great trips, great friends, partying. I could buy a car that my school friends who were in boring jobs couldn’t afford.’

‘Those were different times – and that was a different person.’