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Meet Mia Khalifa, World’s Most Searched Adult-Film Actress
Mia Khalifa is the world most searched female adult-film actress ever. She quit acting after receiving death threats from ISIS for appearing on Hijab in one of her videos.
Mia Khalifa is the world most searched female adult film actress ever. Mia Khalifa is a Lebanese-American media personality and a former adult film actress. She started her adult-film making career in October 2014, becoming the most viewed performer on P0rnhub in two months.
Her career choice was met with controversy in the Middle East, especially for a video in which she performed while wearing a hijab.
How Mia Khalifa Became The Most Searched Adult Film Actress
Mia Khalifa came to the limelight after she joined entered the professional adult film industry in October 2014. However, she came to widespread attention after the release of a scene from BangBros in which she wears a hijab during a thr**s0me with two other actors.
The reaction it caused in the Arab world made her more popular, as well as criticism from writers and religious figures which led to her parents publicly disowning her.
Mia Khalifa Posing for Picture. Source: Instagram
According to the Vice President of Marketing for xHamster, Alex Hawkins, “the outrage Mia Khalifa videoes caused in the Arab world ended up being a bit of a ‘Streisand effect. Suddenly, everyone was searching for her. The effort to censor her only made her more ubiquitous.”
With more than 1.5 million views, the 22-year-old Khalifa became the most-searched-for performer on the adult video sharing website P0rnhub.
However, she complained bitterly regarding the illusion in the adult-film industry on Monday, saying on Twitter she received about $12,000 for about a dozen shots over three months before she left the industry in early 2015, and never a “penny again.”
People think I’m racking in millions from porn. Completely untrue. I made a TOTAL of around $12,000 in the industry and never saw a penny again after that. Difficulty finding a normal job after quitting porn was… scary. Full interview here: https://t.co/xHK7SmhfrY pic.twitter.com/fwJlyzHznq
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) August 12, 2019
Source: Instagram
Why Mia Khalifa Stopped Acting
Mia Khalifa quit the adult film industry when she received death threats from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after the controversial videos. Although she made only made 11 videos in her career as an adult film actor. she receives a lot of negative attention as her videos are still available on the internet.
She joined TikTok last year and gained over 8.9 million followers. A petition named ‘Justice for Mia Khalifa’ is going viral on social media as Mia and her team are trying to get her videos removed from sites like P0rnhub and BangBros.
Source: Instagram
The conversation surrounding justice for Mia was sparked after she made TikTok videos and spoke about the emotional and mental impact of the adult-film industry.
During her adult-film career, Khalifa lived in Miami before relocating back to Texas. She married her high school boyfriend in February 2011. They separated in 2014 and divorced in 2016.
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