A former adult film actress has claimed that she only made a
mere $12,000 during her time in the industry despite being one of the most
popular porn stars on the internet.
Mia Khalifa, a 26-year-old Lebanon native who is best known
for performing sex acts in a hijab, only worked in adult entertainment for
three months before she left the industry in 2015, but she is still one of the
biggest names — and most searched stars — in the business.
'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,' she wrote on Twitter recently.
In two subsequent tweets, Mia explained that she wasn't
complaining about the lack of money she made but rather clearing up some
confusion about her fame.
'To clarify, I was never promised "millions", nor
do I expect it. I’m just clarifying common misconceptions about me, and in
turn, about the industry,' she tweeted.
'I was involved in porn so briefly, but my actions spread
like wildfire, and I continue to be ranked (truly baffles me) 5 years after
leaving the industry. This is why people think I still perform.'
Mia was ranked number two on Pornhub for most-searched stars
last year, right behind Stormy Daniels, according to Vice. She was also the
most-searched star on rival adult website xHamster in 2016 and 2017.
Her tweets were shared to promote her 80-minute interview
with life coach Megan Abbot in which she discussed the rise of her adult film
career as well the difficulties she faced when left the industry as one of
porn's most recognizable faces.
Mia was scouted on the street in Miami in 2014 and made her
first film that October. She admitted that when she started out, she naively
believed no one would know she was working as an adult film actress and it
could be her 'dirty little secret.'
When her friends from home started to find out about her
work, she made the decision to quit the industry, but she was already signed up
to film that week.
Mia was asked to wear a hijab while performing sex acts, a
scene that led to international fame and death threats from ISIS.
'The turning point, of course, was when I did the hijab
scene,' she said. 'That is when the ISIS death threats came in, all of the news
broke out — globally. Not just in America...It was trending on Twitter, it was
all over the news.
'I was banned from a handful of
countries...Egypt...Afghanistan,' she explained. 'Very Muslim countries were
deeply offended by it — and I’m Catholic. So to me, it wasn’t, "Oh yea,
this is bad." What I actually said when they proposed the scene to me, and
this is verbatim, was: "You motherf*****s are going to get me
killed."'
Mia said her family didn't know she was working as an adult
film star until after the clip went viral.
'The day after the scene dropped is when everything blew
up,' she said. 'I think I went from 400 followers on Instagram to like 200,000
in the span of three days and then it just kept snowballing until I was at like
two million six months later.
'This was after I had quit porn,' she noted. 'It just kept
growing, and growing, and growing — and then my Instagram account was hacked by
ISIS.'
Mia said leaving the industry was 'terrifying' because she
didn't know what she was going to do career-wise.
'I was trying to lead a normal life while also maintaining
my online persona because it was financially beneficial to me, and I really
needed it,' she said.
(Daily Mail)
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