‘I Just Wanted to be Free’: ‘Bernie Mac Show’ Star Camille Winbush Reveals Why She Created Her OnlyFans Character ‘Once The Momentum’ From Her Acting Career Stalled

Actress Camille Winbush shed her innocent persona when she launched her OnlyFans account a year ago, but the process of growing out of her childhood character actually began years ago.

The former child star is best known for playing Vanessa “Nessa” Thompkins on “The Bernie Mac Show” alongside the late comedian Bernie Mac and actors Dee Davis and Jeremy Suarez, who respectively played her sister and brother, Bryana and Jordan.

For starters, Winbush, now 34 years old, told Comedy Hype that she “did not have the team at the time that was fighting aggressively for me to get into new doors.”

Secondly, she said, “I was a teenager going into my 20s and had been working since I was 2 years old, and I didn’t really want to keep working and being on set every day and having to give up a social life to work. I wasn’t really that interested in pursuing it at the time. I just wanted to be free for a little bit.”

When “The Bernie Mac Show” went off the air in 2006 after five seasons and 105 episodes, the then-16-year-old would go on to have a reccurring role on “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” The teenage drama is her last big role, according to IMDb. She said that “once that momentum slows down, it’s harder to jump back in where you left off because now you’re 10 steps behind everybody else.”