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Others, like British-Lebanese author Nasri Atallah, came to her defense. “The moral indignation about Mia Khalifa, presumably the first Lebanese porn star, is wrong for two reasons,” he wrote on . “First and foremost, as a woman, she is free to do as she pleases with her body. Secondly, as a sentient human being with agency, who lives halfway across the world, she is in charge of her own life and owes absolutely nothing to the country where she happened to be born. There is this odd perception that being Lebanese is a vocation and a duty first and that your personal life comes second.”
“No amount of money would make it worth it”: Former porn performer Mia Khalifa speaks out
In a 2018 on his podcast , Mia described her unplanned entry into the porn industry. Twenty-one years old at the time, Mia was struggling with low self-image. When a man from a “nude modeling agency” approached her outside a restaurant in Miami, Florida, she spent a couple of weeks mulling over his offer, eventually deciding to go for it.
Her decision to enter the porn scene led her into a life she didn’t expect or want. Only in the industry for a few months before realizing her “dumb” mistake and leaving, Mia rose to immediate fame. “As soon as I started to gain popularity that’s when I was like ‘get the f— out of this’ … this was not what I was trying to do whatsoever,” she said.
Mia became one of the world’s most popular porn performers, and that popularity continued long after her mainstream industry exit in early 2015.
