Yep, that’s right; she’s baaack.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with this returning starlet – and how are you not at this point (?) – she started doing studio porn back in 2014 and made quite a splash in a couple of seasons.
After exploding onto the erotic entertainment scene, Mia Khalifa made waves in the best and worst way possible. To be fair, some of the backlash she received was definitely not her fault, though she does have a habit of putting her foot into her mouth.
And after seemingly disappearing off the face of the earth, she’s back to posting explicit content. The full story this woman has is crazy wonderful, weird, and whacky twists and turns. So, buckle up and get ready for one helluva a ride.
Let’s sum up Khalifa’s previous porn career – and the backlash
For sure, Mia definitely made a splash in the world of smut based on her good looks, but she managed to make a name for herself through kink and controversy. While pretty much all of her movies ended with Khalifa being naked from the waist down. But she would be filmed giving head or getting fucked while wearing a hijab in some scenes.
Apparently, porn consumers all over the place thought it was hot as hell, and Mia’s star rose into the sexual stratosphere. To give you an idea of how popular she became, within months, searches on PornHub for sultry sultaness pentupled. Her years’ old work is one of the top trending and ranking performers on popular tube sites even to this day.
Needless to say, Mia’s sacrilegious sex shows, her praise of adult entertainment, and her condemnation of her home country, Lebanon, brought on a crazy amount of criticism. Her religiously conservative Muslim parents threatened to disown her, religious fundies freaked out, and even some Western journos went after her.
Worse, after she ranked as the number one model on PornHub, Mia got death threats from the Islamic State – which, shockingly, she initially shook off with humor and sarcasm. I gotta say that I felt sorry for and was impressed with that kind of reaction at the time.
Then things started to go from whacky to just plain weird.
If you look up the release dates of some of her porn, you would think that Mia has been performing from 2014 and into this year. But it turns out that all of her work was shot in a three-month period in 2014 and, for whatever reason, wasn’t released soon after being filmed.
This is why I think it’s bullshit that she later complained about only making twelve thousand dollars upfront, plus one hundred and seventy-eight thousand bucks in residuals, according to BangBros.
Anyway, she signed a long-term contract with BangBros in early 2015, but then suddenly officially pulled out of porn weeks later. Following that, her favorable opinion of the industry took quite an abrupt turn, too.
Then after quitting adult entertainment, she turned on the industry
Again, I do want to say that I do feel bad for all of the bullshit that Khalifa had to deal with, especially from goddamn terrorists.
With that clarification put out there, I still have to mention that she tried to grab even more attention by complaining on the news shows about how little money she made, and sites like PornHub wouldn’t pull her content.
Further, Mia often talked about feeling embarrassed about being in adult entertainment. She even had the audacity to whine about studio porn sites were still making money on copyrighted movies she starred in even though she admits to signing contracts with them.
To be fair to her, Mia didn’t pull a Shelly Lubben and blame her choice to do smut on predatory pornographers. But it was hardly a good look for her to drag the entire adult industry when she failed to plan out her career, let alone imagine that people she knew wouldn’t find out she was an adult performer in the age of the internet.
And now she’s back to posting to the net and making money off her mature media…again.
She’s (sort of) posting pornographic content to OnlyFans now
For years after that, Mrs. Khalifa found herself a new husband and switched up career prospects several times. Jobs she worked include being a lawyer-in-training, bookkeeper, social media personality, and professional gamer.
It looks like she split up with her second hubby in June of this year and, a few months later, announced that she had joined up to OnlyFans. According to her page, she only uploads content that is “safe for work content, kinda” and mostly consists of sexy but clothed poses. Allegedly, she isn’t going to post any nudes, let alone hardcore sex, but we’ll see how long that lasts.
With her confusing positions on creating carnal content, some denizens of the interwebs have (understandably) criticized her decision to get back into sex work again. After all, she campaigned for years to get her porn pulled off of the net.
In response to this new wave of criticism, Mia has said…
“I am finally growing into my self-confidence in who I am and the decisions I make for me, and this is my way of being myself outside the perimeters of conventional social media…I want to take my power back and just post what I want and what makes me feel good, and I’m just so thankful that y’all are along for this wild ride.”
As you would expect, some people are okay with it, and many people aren’t buying it. When it comes to the first group, they seem to have moved on and are supporting Mia.
In fact, despite having a mere fifty-two pictures and four videos at the explicit level of an Instagram post, she’s gotten tens of thousands of likes. Moreover, her page has thousands of paying supporters, and some of her defenders are comparing Mia to other persecuted porn performers.
Then there are the detractors who bring up how “haunted” Khalifa has felt with all of the nudie pics and vids of her floating around. Some of them, I suspect might just be mad that she isn’t putting out hardcore movies. Still, you can’t help but think that her behavior straddles the border between confusing and hypocritical.
I’m sure you’re wondering, what do I think about all of this?
When it comes to summing up my personal standpoint on all of this, I can just recite what they commonly say on Reddit *le sigh*, I guess. I mean, she is a pretty gal, and I’ve enjoyed her work. In fact, many of her movies are some of my favorites when it comes to raunchy videos starring Middle Eastern gals.
Still, I think it’s ridiculous that she decided to become an industry turncoat when it seems to have gotten her media attention. It annoys the hell out of me that she painted this depressing picture of being a porn performer, even though she freely admits that she choose to do it. And I think it’s stupid that she decided to get into smut (supposedly) as part of a rebellious phase.
I’m sure some who follow her on Twitter are about to email me about how she sold her glasses for six figures and seems to have donated the money to the Lebanese Red Cross. And yeah, that certainly does cast her in a much better light, but Khalifa is so erratic I can’t tell how sincere she is really.
IDK look up her OnlyFans page if you want, but I ain’t going to link directly to it. Just be aware that she charges $11.99 a month for access (!), which is more than many OnlyFan users do for explicit erotica.
PornDude’s final words
If you want to see women of Arabic and Near Eastern heritage who are in porn and actually like it, I’ve done several reviews and a blog post on them already. I’m sure that you’ll like what you see, especially if you’re into fetishizing the hijab and, by extension, mocking religious fundamentalism.
If you’ve got a fascination with other performers and producers who have left the biz or are still pumping out porn, I’ve got an upload all about that, too. It’s a little dated in light of certain recent events – *cough, cough* like Ron Jeremy’s arrest – but most of the info is pretty interesting.
If you liked any of those posts or this one, send it to your friends, and I hope they enjoy it as much as I had fun making them.
