Because the stares I get, I feel like people can see through my clothes. On the question on whether or not she had a lawyer to take her through the paper work, she replied: “What 21-year-old has a lawyer on retainer?”Īnswering queries on how stressful the experience has been, more so today, after she had moved on, she said, “I think post-traumatic stress kicks in mostly when I go on public. Everyone who worked there was nice, like it was nothing dodgy or that made me uncomfortable.” And after I came and toured the studio, it was very respectful. Would you like to do some modelling? Oh, you have a great body, I think you should do nude modelling’, things like that. On the question of how she got into the porn industry, she said, “It wasn’t just ‘hey, do you want to come and do porn?’ It was more so ‘Oh, you’re beautiful. I lost about 50 pounds and once I did that, I started garnering all this attention from men and I was never used to it, and I felt like unless I held on to it, and did what was asked of me to do or what was expected of me, it would go away and after feeling and what was like that validation, and you know, the compliments for the first time, I did not want that to go away.” Mia Khalifa said she made a mere ₹8.75 lakh as a porn star and was in it for only 3 months.
I felt extremely self conscious about my breast because that was the first thing to go when I lost weight. It doesn’t matter if you come from a great family or if you come from a not-so-great background, I struggled my entire childhood with weight and I never felt attractive or worthy of male attention, and suddenly in 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. Speaking about how it all began, given that she had a decent college education, Mia said, “I don’t think low self-esteem discriminates against anyone. No matter how stressful the period was for her, she said, the reality is that she is just a “Google search away”.
She explained how inexperience got her into it and when when she eventually quit, the tag refused to leave her. Former adult star Mia Khalifa, in a new interview to BBC, has spoken about her experience of working in the porn industry and how it damaged her.