Mia Khalifa explains how her intercourse life remains to be affected 12 years on from notorious video

Mia Khalifa has revealed how her choice to star in an notorious pornographic video nonetheless impacts her life.

In 2014 the Lebanese-American content material creator featured in a sexually express video whereas sporting a hijab, a call which precipitated appreciable outrage and backlash world wide.

The video would result in Khalifa changing into notorious, with the then 21-year-old receiving dying threats from ISIS and even being disowned by her household.

12 years on and her quick lived porn profession remains to be the factor most individuals know Khalifa for, with the influencer not too long ago revealing telling Adam Friedland the fallout from the nonetheless impacts her to today.

“So at that second I nonetheless thought that nobody was ever going to search out out about this,” she defined on his YouTube sequence, The Adam Friedland Show.

“I believe the best way it occurred was very circumstantial,” she continued, referencing occasions such because the #MeToo motion and the Charlie Hebdo terrorist assault in January 2015 colliding with the discharge of the video.

“There was plenty of social issues occurring that that actually have been the explanation why I used to be part of that and why it type of exploded the best way it did… All the things occurred in a short time.”

Regardless of Khalifa – who’s actual identify is Sarah Joe Chamoun – pondering her transient profession would by no means get again to her mother and father, the worldwide infamy was laborious to cover from.

Her movies would rack up lots of of thousands and thousands of views on PornHub and her identify can be on the high of the X-rated web site’s most looked for performers for years after, that means there was nowhere to cover for the 33-year-old.

Her mother and father would swiftly launch a press release condemning her, with Khalifa revealing to Friedland that they have been subsequently estranged for ‘a very long time after that’.

The eye related to the video adopted Khalifa round for years, making her really feel like a ‘burden’ when she tried to work as a bookkeeper at a building firm and resulting in her dropping belief in her relationships.

This included with intimate companions, with Khalifa revealing she’s solely had two relationships in 10 years attributable to her mistrust of potential lovers.

“I am unable to even like mentally get previous anyone desirous to be with me for the novelty or for that purpose. So, I would a lot relatively simply be alone,” she mentioned.

“I have been in two long-term relationships since then and that is that is it within the within the final 10 years.

“There was plenty of situations the place I had interactions with individuals [and] realised, wow, my life is just not the identical.”

This is not the one time by which Khalifa has been brutally sincere about how a brief stint within the grownup trade impacted her life, along with her present profession selections seeing the content material creator make a marked transfer away from her express picture.

She has since launched a jewelry enterprise and made a number of appearances at Paris Trend Week. Khalifa additionally works as an influencer, with OnlyFans being her greatest moneymaker. When it got here to the choice to hitch the subscriber platform, Khalifa mentioned expressed the significance of being in command of her personal physique.

“I don’t do nudity previous what I’ve completed in a trend journal, which is sort of a see-through shirt or one thing,” she instructed The New York Times in 2024, including: “So I really feel safe.”