Mia Khalifa shared her adult movies experience for the very first time
Mia Khalifa, a Lebanese-American sports commentator and model first gained worldwide fame when her adult movie, in which she was wearing a hijab, went viral. Since then she has been on the receiving end of major backlash, especially from the Muslim community.
Recently Mia Khalifa had been sharing her adult movies experience in TikToks that she had posted recently
Mia posts regularly on her TikTok and has over seven million followers. Recently she posted a video where she writes about her dissociative disorder and short stint in the adult industry.
@miakhalifa It is what it was
After this TikTok gained massive support, Mia Khalifa opened up about her work in adult movies for the first time ever
I’ve never spoken about this because I was made to feel as though I couldn’t tell my story without being derided by the general public.
I feel safe now, and I also feel the need to unload some things that have haunted me during my brief stint in the industry.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
She started by saying she has never talked about this in public as she feared a backlash, although she has given interviews in the past recounting her experiences in the industry she had not addressed her work in as much detail.
According to Mia, she was asked to do a photoshoot with a photographer who worked for Vogue magazine, after her infamous hijab video
For a chance to be featured in a famous mainstream magazine, she agreed to pose for the photographer.
He told me I’d have the opportunity to be featured in mainstream publications and could really validate myself if I worked with this photographer.
My eyes lit up, I was honored & excited, I thought maybe this terrible situation I’m in could be parlayed into something positive.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
However, Mia Khalifa said that because of her experience with adult movies she could sense that the photoshoot was really something else
But she says she went along with the whole thing in the hopes of gracing the covers of the revered fashion magazine.
From the moment I was told there was no hair and makeup I knew something was off, but I was conflicted. I had never been on a “real” set, and I didn’t want to inadvertently insult the photographer or his process, because WHAT IF IT WAS GOING IN VOGUE!
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
She went on to say that she was taken to a remote location where she was asked to pose in weird manner and costume
This sounds like a classic case where the victim is in fear of their perpetrator’s influence but goes along with the whole thing, which was exactly what Mia did. She says she put on a hijab and held two replica guns and started posing as the photographer told her to, even though she says she was afraid of him and what he would be capable of.
His posing orders quickly scaled from provocative to salacious, but again, I was too afraid to say anything. “What if it IS for Vogue? What if he gets mad? What if he pushes you off the roof?” Was the chorus in my head. I didn’t know this man, and I was scared to my core.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
After the photoshoot was done, Mia says he asked her to take all her clothes off and pose some more
Even though she had been without clothes on the camera before, she says that was still with consent (regardless of the manner it was taken in) she had given. This was a sudden demand sprung on her which made the model panic.
He told me to take the hijab and my underwear off and to pose against a wall. My heart began to palpatate. I know it might be easy for you to say “you had sex on camera, what’s the big deal?” But you need to understand the level of fear a woman has when she feels powerless.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
Mia Khalifa says that despite her experience in adult movies, this photoshoot made her dissociate, which basically is a condition where there’s a disconnection between how the mind handles the person’s surroundings
According to her, the photographer also touched her inappropriately, making her even more uncomfortable and unsure.
When I wasn’t posing to his liking, he would physically correct me and contort my body until he was satisfied. I wanted to scream and cry and to claw his face off with my bare hands all at the same time.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
The worst part of it was when he moved his hands over my breasts telling me how nice they were. I still feel the cold metal from his rings in a shiver down my spine.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
Mia says that it didn’t matter what his intentions or gender was, only the fact that he caused her emotional and mental trauma for which she had to seek professional therapy
My conclusion (after tons of therapy), is that it would not have mattered if this man was straight, gay, or even a female. I would have felt JUST as unsafe were it a woman in his place. The part of this whole thing that utterly crushes me, was the indignity of it.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
Mia Khalifa also named the men she claims to have consciously chosen to deceive her in her adult movies’ stint
Along with the whole ordeal being painful, she said she wasn’t paid for those photos or in any way informed about, let alone taken permission of regarding their usage.
Weeks later, those photos ended up being used on the website BangBros created under my name. Which I owned the domain for before they, again, deceived me into selling to them for $1.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
For all I know, this photographer could’ve actually worked for Vogue. In which case, shame on him for abusing those credentials to explicitly photograph someone clearly in the throes of a crisis while the world ridiculed and watched, and these men capitalized on it.
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 24, 2020
Support poured in for Mia Khalida from all places when she opened up about this behavior from the adult movies industry
i stan mia khalifa and no not the pornstar. the woman who continued to live her truth, who kept her chin up and overcame so much and is still so full of light. i stan her.
— sashimi🍉 (@sasinpainx10) June 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/arianna__may/status/1275786232463843328?s=20
But not everyone was as forgiving, as comments about her racist past started trickling in as well
So trump supporting, N word enthusiast Mia Khalifa going through something and we should care why? pic.twitter.com/WoEklbK8h4
— Protecting My Peace 💆🏿♂️ (@NubianKingBenji) June 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/zamarudd/status/1275873058377646081?s=20
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