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Khalifa was born in Beirut, Lebanon and moved with her family to the United States in 2000. She moved to Montgomery County, Maryland as a teenager and attended Northwest High School. A few years later she graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.

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Mia Khalifa on life after adult films: I feel like people can see through my clothes

A Lebanese native born in 1993, Mia Khalifa migrated to the United States in 2001. In late 2014, she began her brief career (three months) in the highly exploitative porn industry. She said it was her self-esteem issues that made her choose the profession.

By: Entertainment Desk

August 31, 2019 12:28 IST

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 Mia Khalifa says her stint in the porn industry is still affecting her well-being and privacy. (Photo: Mia Khalifa/Instagram)

Former adult star Mia Khalifa has lately been speaking about her struggles in the porn industry and the ways her stint is still affecting her well-being and privacy.

A Lebanese native born in 1993, Khalifa migrated to the United States in 2001. In late 2014, she began her brief career (three months) in the highly exploitative porn industry.

On BBC HARDtalk, she explained the reason for the choice of her career. “I don’t think low self-esteem discriminates against anyone. It doesn’t matter if you come from a great family or if you come from a not-so-great background,” Mia Khalifa said.

She added, “I struggled my entire childhood with weight and I never felt attractive or worthy of male attention, and suddenly my first year of college I start losing all this weight from making small changes and by the time I graduated I was ready to make a bigger difference. After feeling what it was like – that validation and the compliments for the first time – I did not want that to go away.”

But things did not exactly go the way Mia Khalifa had intended. A cascade of repercussions followed after her explicit videos appeared on porn sites. She had shot a video performing sexual acts in a hijab that went viral and irked many in her native Lebanon and other Middle-Eastern countries. She had attracted the attention of even ISIS.

The scene also prompted her to exit the profession. In an another interview, Khalifa told her friend and YouTuber Megan Abott, “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…Very Muslim countries were deeply offended by it – and I’m Catholic. So to me it wasn’t, ‘Oh yeah, this is bad.’ What I actually said when they proposed the scene to me, and this is verbatim, was: ‘You motherf***ers are going to get me killed,'” she added.

Her sense of validation due to her videos and getting attention from around the world had soon turned into something else. “I was not scared of ISIS. It was jarring. But I wasn’t living in fear. It was more that I was living in shame,” she told The Washington Post.

Mia Khalifa on life after adult films: I feel like people can see through my clothes

A Lebanese native born in 1993, Mia Khalifa migrated to the United States in 2001. In late 2014, she began her brief career (three months) in the highly exploitative porn industry. She said it was her self-esteem issues that made her choose the profession.

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