Mia Khalifa, a p**n actress with a 'hijab'
“I started to lose control when death threats from ISIS started coming in. Since then, I decided to distance myself from p**n.” Mia Khalifa, as the person facing her who doesn't try to judge her, feels that she has been wrong for many years of her life. Having achieved worldwide success in her adult film career and being listed on p**nhub's Most Searched Actresses list, she now just wants to be a normal person leading a normal life.
I never slept with anyone in college. I concentrated on getting the graduate soon because I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible
“I look back and I don't know what was happening. She was twenty-one years old and in a daze,” says Khalifa, whose real name is Sarah Chamoun. At the age of nine, she emigrated with her entire family. The daughter of a rather restrictive Muslim father and strong religious ideas, she decided to study Art History at the University of Texas, according to Fox News. “As soon as I started gaining popularity, that's when I realized I had to make the most of it,” she noted.
Khalifa's career was truly brief and intense; it only lasted 3 months. Her life, for being only 25 years old, has been dotted with great events since she married a man of American nationality at the age of 18, according to the newspaper 'La Verdad'. She then separated from her and worked at Fuddruckers, a Miami burger joint, where she met the person who would get her into p**n while she was ordering.
“I never slept with anyone in college,” she declares. “I never went to one of those crazy college party nights. She was very studious. I focused on graduating soon because I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible and start my own life”, she says. At first, she was worried that her family would find out that she was involved in p**nography. “I thought if my parents found out my life would be completely ruined,” she says. “The way I rationalized it is that there is so much p**n content that there is no way anyone I knew was going to discover me.” For this reason, she gave herself a pseudonym as her artistic name, although she would be of little use to her since she would become universally famous and both her family and her friends would end up catching her.
Mia Khalifa tells the misery of being a p**n actress
You may not have heard of Mia Khalifa. She has been a controversial figure in pop culture since 2014 and a celebrity in the adult film world. She is a woman with a story and is not afraid to tell it.
The Catholic Lebanese American immigrated from Beirut to the US in 2000, and at first, life for her was pretty normal for a US citizen. She married an American after she turned eighteen, and she attended the University of Texas to major in history.
But how did she get to fame? It all started when she was twenty-one, she had just graduated, separated, and worked for a fast food restaurant in the city of Miami. She was walking near a mall when a man asked her if she was willing to do modeling work, but Khalifa knew what she really wanted to say, he was asking her if she wanted to be an adult film actress. She pondered the offer and a couple of weeks later she made the resolution, she was going to become a major star.
“Looking back, I don't know exactly what she was thinking…she was twenty-one and she was stupid,” she told Lance Armstrong when he interviewed her on her radio show. But Khalifa surely had no idea how this industry was going to change her life. After just three months in the adult entertainment industry, Mia Khalifa has become one of the biggest names. With over 1.5 million hits on a popular site in 2015, she was the number 1 most popular actress. She was officially an internet celebrity, but her fame didn't stop then.
Khalifa's enormous success on the networks drew a lot of attention along the way, including the bad press. After getting multiple tattoos to show his Lebanese pride, he sparked controversy in her home country. Certain media criticized this girl and her profession, with specialists using her name to discuss the adult film industry and also the internet.
“They are embarrassed that I am 'claiming' them, just like I have a choice. I was born there, ”she told an online newspaper.
But Khalifa not only faced criticism in the country of her birth, but she was also a controversial figure around the world, especially after a tape was released in which she appeared wearing a hijab. He then became the target of ISIS, who sent him death threats and told him that he was going to burn in hell. Ultimately, these messages caused him to leave the industry for good, not long after entering.
“Everything started to get out of control when the ISIS threats reached me, that's when I took a decisive step,” he told Armstrong. But even knowing that he left this planet, he has not left the show at all. She now continues to work as a webcam girl and creates interactive content for her fans on her Patreon account. And although many do not believe it, he continues to earn a living in front of a camera, except that now he generally does it with clothes.
In 2017, Khalifa got a job at “Complex News”, where she hosted a daily sports show called “Out of Bounds” on her YouTube channel. She left him after a few months to move to Austin and create her entertainment space on the streaming platform Twitch. "I didn't want to be in the city of Los Angeles," she communicated to Armstrong. “It was my dream job but it left me the moment I realized I had never seen it.”
Despite Mia going down in history as one of the most popular adult actresses of our time, her view of this industry and the women who work in it is bleak. “Most girls go in looking for fame. That is the saddest part. Each of these young women believes this is the only way to please the rest or become a celebrity. It's sad, ”she communicated in an interview.
