Adult star Skylar Mae, 23, says she earns over $1m a month and now gives her parents up to $20,000 (£15,700) every month, plus $200,000 (£157,000) for a new business
Adult star Skylar Mae has revealed she gives her parents up to $240,000 (£176,000) a year, on top of spending hundreds of thousands on luxury gifts, cars and a new business.
The 23-year-old, who earns over $1 million a month, gives her mum and dad up to $20,000 every month, but their allowance is only part of what she has spent on them. Skylar has also given her father $200,000 (£157,000) to launch a solar business, spent approximately $110,000 (£86,500) on Rolexes for her parents and paid off their cars.
She estimates she has also bought her mum around five designer purses this year alone. “My parents get a monthly allowance of around $15,000 (£11,000) to $20,000,” Skylar said.
She continued: “They never came to me asking for money. It just naturally started because I knew they were having a hard time paying their health insurance bill.
“I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to start [adult content] and cover their insurance.’ It began with me saying, ‘Don’t worry about it, guys.
“‘I’ve got it.’ Then it eventually became, ‘Dad, I don’t want you to have to go into the office anymore, so I’m going to give you this amount every month.’”
Despite receiving a monthly allowance which is 4x that of the every-day American, Skylar (@officialskylarmaexo) said her parents have never expected her to fund their lifestyle or pressured her to buy them anything. “Even now, my parents don’t expect anything from me,” she said.
“They know that if they ever needed something, I would give it to them, but they don’t ask me for anything extra. I would have taken care of my parents no matter what career I went into, as long as I was financially able to.”
One of Skylar’s luxury gifts has included approximately $80,000 (£59,000) worth of Rolexes for her father. After her mum became upset that her husband owned two Rolexes while she didn’t have one, Skylar bought her a watch worth approximately $30,000 (£22,000).
“My mum got a $30,000 Rolex because she was upset that my dad had two Rolexes from me and she didn’t even have one,” Skylar said. “So I got her one too.
“I’ve probably bought my mum five purses this year alone, and I’m currently planning on buying her a car. I’ve also helped them pay off all their previous cars.”
However, Skylar’s biggest single contribution was the $200,000 she gave her father to start a solar business. Although she can afford to support him completely, Skylar doesn’t want her father to stop working altogether.
Due to cancer, he regularly undergoes treatment that leaves him unable to work for several days, but Skylar believes having a business gives him a sense of purpose when he feels well enough. “My dad is an amazing salesperson.
“He could literally sell ice to an Eskimo,” she said. “I try to make sure he still works because I feel like if he didn’t have something to wake up for, he would just crumble away.
“That’s why I helped him open his solar business and gave him $200,000. I want my parents to have the option to get out of bed or not, depending on how they feel, rather than being forced to work when they’re sick.”
Skylar’s mother suffers from lupus, which can leave her feeling healthy one week and unable to get out of bed the next. Her father’s regular chemotherapy treatments can leave him unwell for four or five days before he has to undergo another round less than two weeks later.
Before their health deteriorated, Skylar’s parents were successful entrepreneurs who ran multiple businesses. “My parents were really successful people,” Skylar said.
“They always lived a comfortable lifestyle, but when their health got really bad, they couldn’t work anymore and their businesses just crumbled. There was a four-year period while I was in high school when we struggled really hard.
“If I had never experienced that struggle, I probably would have never started an [adult content].” Skylar said helping care for her parents as a teenager forced her to mature quickly and made her determined to create financial security for her family.
“I’ve always been a little caretaker,” she said. “If my parents didn’t feel well, I would take care of them at their bedside.
“I think being a kid and having to help care for my parents made me grow up much faster than I should have.” She also credits her parents with teaching her the relentless work ethic she has applied to her own career.
“Watching my parents grind is what made me a grinder,” Skylar said. “They would wake up at the crack of dawn and start working immediately.
“Just because it’s five o’clock doesn’t mean work is over when you own a business. You work 24/7.
“If something is needed and you’re at dinner, you walk out and work. I watched my parents for years never take days off.
“They worked holidays and birthdays because whatever the business needed, they did it. They trained me for sure.”
Skylar said being able to give her parents financial security is now one of the most meaningful parts of her success. “I don’t technically need to help my parents, but I want to,” she said.
“They worked so hard to give me a comfortable life, and I’ve always taken care of them. Now I’m just able to do that on a much bigger scale.”
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