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Mia Khalifa was born on February 10, 1993, in Beirut, Lebanon and moved together with her household to the US in January 2001, leaving their dwelling within the wake of the South Lebanon battle. Her household is Catholic and he or she was raised in that faith, in what she describes as a “very conservative” dwelling,though she is not practising. Khalifa attended a French personal college in Beirut, the place she realized to talk English. After shifting to the US, she lived in Montgomery County, Maryland and performed lacrosse in highschool. Khalifa attended Northwest Excessive College. Khalifa has talked about being bullied at college for being “the darkest and weirdest woman there”, which intensified after the September 11 assaults.
Khalifa attended Massanutten Army Academy after which moved to Texas to attend school. She graduated from the College of Texas at El Paso with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Historical past.Whereas in school, Khalifa labored as a bartender and did some modeling work. She was additionally a “briefcase woman” on an area Spanish-language TV sport present, just like Deal or No Deal.
Pornographic movies
In early 2014, Khalifa and her husband posted a number of pornographic photos to a preferred NSFW subreddit on Reddit. Khalifa entered the skilled pornographic movie trade in October 2014. She was strolling in Miami when she was requested if she had ever thought-about showing in pornographic movies. She got here to widespread consideration after the discharge of a BangBros scene during which she wears a hijab throughout a threesome with Sean Lawless and Julianna Vega. The scene introduced Khalifa instantaneous recognition, in addition to criticism from writers and spiritual figures. The scene’s producer mentioned “We weren’t attempting to take advantage of [Khalifa’s ethnicity]. We wished to embrace it. Nobody might have anticipated the negativity surrounding it.”Alex Hawkins, Vice President of Advertising for xHamster, mentioned “The outrage it prompted within the Arab world ended up being a little bit of a ‘Streisand impact’. Instantly, everybody was looking for her. The trouble to censor her solely made her extra ubiquitous.” With greater than 1.5 million views, the 22-year-old Khalifa turned essentially the most searched-for performer on the grownup video sharing web site Pornhub. On December 28 that 12 months, Pornhub revealed that she was the No. 1 ranked performer on their web site.