Super Pornstar Mia Khalifa Announces Her Retirement Along with Future Plans

3 Months?! That is all it took. She made a lot of videos over that time.

Mia Khalifa is extremely loved to the point where she became the most popular pornstar in the world. She is also extremely hated to the point where someone just typed on this Facebook post “SHE IS NOT EVEN HOT!” “NOT WORTH IT” and my favorite “I’VE SEEN BETTER”.Today is a sad day. Mia Khalifa has retired from the porn game. The 23-year-old has called it quits.

The Washington Post broke the story saying “The Lebanese-born 23-year-old who grew up in Montgomery County, earned worldwide attention after a brief stint as an adult actress and now calls herself a “social media personality” with more than a million Twitter followers plus nearly 300,000 on Instagram”

“Social media personality” I already miss the pornstar.

“Since I gained a social media platform, I decided right away that I want to bring as much attention to Maryland and D.C. and the DMV area as I can,” Khalifa said in a phone interview this week. “I want to promote D.C. sports. I want to promote how amazing Maryland is and how gorgeous D.C. is and how great of a city it is. Because that’s home.”
Here is the wild part. Khalifa said she only did adult acting for three months, and that she stopped more than a year ago! WHAT!

“I guess it was my rebellious phase,” she said. “It wasn’t really for me. I kind of smartened up and tried to distance myself from that.”
I am sad. I know a lot of you are as well. So here is my Mia Khalifa tribute. All the stuff I can post on here that doesn’t include a dick in her. :(

Mia used to make the best almost NSFW but still very close to NSFW gifs:

A former porn star has become one of D.C.’s loudest sports fans on social media

A former porn star has become one of D.C.’s loudest sports fans on social Media Think, for a second, about the most famous fans of D.C. sports teams. There’s Wolf Blitzer and Chris Wallace, Luke Russert and David Gregory, Alan Greenspan and Chuck Todd, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, Charles Krauthammer and Ben Bernanke. These are household names in many cases, important and serious men from Official Washington. But they’re not exactly Jack Nicholson or Spike Lee.Which isn’t to say D.C. teams have no celebrity supporters. The Redskins have Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Durant and Matthew McConaughey. The Caps can point to Pat Sajak and Lynda Carter. The Nats have, uh, Bill Nye? Georgetown has Bradley Cooper. Maryland has ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt. And there are more. But these are not, by and large, supporters of the whole swath of Washington sports.And so who might be the most influential person to tweet something like this: “Wizards won, Caps won, Lookin’ at you, Skins! Let’s go 3 for 3 in DC tonight!” Or tweet a video of a Jayson Werth postgame interview, post comments on a Redskins Periscope stream, swap off-color insults with Penguins fans and be pictured on a pop culture website wearing a John Wall jersey?

I think the answer might be Mia Khalifa. Not familiar? That’s the pseudonym for a Lebanese-born 23-year-old who grew up in Montgomery County, earned worldwide attention after a brief stint as an adult actress and now calls herself a “social media personality” with more than a million Twitter followers plus nearly 300,000 on Instagram — and who can’t stop talking about D.C. sports teams.
I know, this seems weird. But who else would get hundreds and hundreds of likes for a “Heartbroken” tweet after the Caps’ Game 6 loss in Pittsburgh? Or, uh, for an image of Alex Ovechkin photoshopped into her bosom?“Since I gained a social media platform, I decided right away that I want to bring as much attention to Maryland and D.C. and the DMV area as I can,” Khalifa said in a phone interview this week. “I want to promote D.C. sports. I want to promote how amazing Maryland is and how gorgeous D.C. is and how great of a city it is. Because that’s home. Other than Wale, it’s not very well-represented [in certain circles]. So I want to help out with that. I really care about D.C.”

Is she helping make D.C. sports fandom cool?

“I hope I am,” she said. “Is it working? Do you think it’s working? I mean, I do get a lot of responses saying damn, now I’m a Caps fan, or damn, I should root for the Wizards; things like that. So I hope it’s working.”

Is she helping make D.C. sports fandom cool?

“I hope I am,” she said. “Is it working? Do you think it’s working? I mean, I do get a lot of responses saying damn, now I’m a Caps fan, or damn, I should root for the Wizards; things like that. So I hope it’s working.”
Let me pause here for you to gather your thoughts on the rise and fall of The Washington Post sports section and the general coarsening of our public discourse, and possibly to send off an angry letter to the editor. All good? Swell.

Because what interests me is the way Khalifa, with her massive fan base, can steer hordes of followers toward teams that don’t always get such attention. She frequently retweets @recordsandradio, a popular Twitter account focusing on D.C. sports. When she retweeted an image from @BurgundyBlog in January, it became that Redskins site’s biggest-ever tweet. This spring, she began tweeting stories from Caps blog Russian Machine Never Breaks — “usually something that was doing pretty well, and then went crazy” after the Khalifa bump, wrote Ian Oland, one of the founders of the site.When I told her that the editors there appreciated her readership, she said it made her day that they even knew about her. Why does she focus on smaller local accounts rather than ESPN or Bleacher Report?“To help them out, since I can,” she wrote. “My version of the ‘shop local’ movement.”Being a part of that strange community of Washington sports fans “matters to me because it makes me feel like I’m closer to home,” she went on, “like I’m a part of something bigger than myself.”And so ignore her past references to out-of-town franchises. Since her rise to fame, she’s posted images of herself in an assortment of D.C. jerseys: John Wall’s and Bradley Beal’s, Alex Ovechkin’s and Sean Taylor’s. She promised to name her first-born “Braden” if the Caps won the Stanley Cup, and she wrote about convincing a bar in Miami to put the Caps playoff game on its main TV, a struggle familiar to Washingtonians. Like many of you, she posts You Like That and #RocktheRed and #HTTR and #DCRising, and she directed angry messages at the NHL after Ovechkin was suspended for missing last year’s All-Star Game. Her Twitter background photo currently features her wearing an Andre Burakovsky jersey; she may be the most famous person ever to pose in an Andre Burakovsky jersey, including Andre Burakovsky.As it turns out, I can’t republish that last image here, because the aforementioned Burakovsky jersey did not quite manage to cover up Khalifa’s backside. Which brings us to one of the strangest parts of this phenomenon: It isn’t entirely G-rated. When she tweeted at Redskins linebackers Will Compton and Mason Foster, they wound up getting pornographic replies. I wouldn’t recommend viewing her account at work, and was kind of nervous researching this item in the office, if I’m being honest. Which is probably why Khalifa hasn’t been celebrated by local teams the way their other celebrity fans have.“Honestly, I think the teams try to separate themselves from me because of the reputation of being a former adult actress, which I totally understand and respect,” she said. “But I’m still gonna support them.”
Khalifa said she only did adult acting for three months, and that she stopped more than a year ago, although her social media account is still a bit more risque than that of, say, Ben Bernanke.“I guess it was my rebellious phase,” she said. “It wasn’t really for me. I kind of smartened up and tried to distance myself from that.”She has a more normal job now, she said, and recently relocated from Florida to Texas. But she’s maintained her massive social-media presence — which still brings in additional income — and said she wants to use that prominence in part to celebrate her hometown sports teams.She said she arrived in America when she was 10, and learned to follow the Redskins from cousins who were fans. She played lacrosse in high school, in the early days of the Ovechkin era, and the similarity of the sports and the allure of those Rock the Red teams led to her massive Caps fandom. As a middle-schooler, she chose the Nats over the Orioles based on their uniforms, but she also associates more with Washington than Baltimore. And when she came home for a Caps game that was snowed out last season, she instead wound up at a Wizards game. She’s also regularly attended road games featuring D.C. teams, and has the Center Ice package to follow the Caps from afar.
“I was a big D.C. sports fan obviously when I lived there, but when I moved away — even when I was in college in Texas — it was a taste of home to me,” she said. “It cured my homesickness, it made me feel like I was still a part of D.C.” The teams, she said, have come to occupy “just a bigger, warmer place in my heart.”

She’s also part of D.C.’s Loss Generation, those 20-somethings who don’t remember the Redskins Super Bowls and have had precious few titles to celebrate. She said this has never led to despair or pessimism but rather empathy; “Oh God, I feel so bad for them, especially the Capitals,” she said. “I’m never mad at them when they lose. I just want Ovechkin to get a Cup.”

But no one, she said, can call her a bandwagon fan, and she has no plans to give up on her Washington fandom. Why?
“I love representing D.C. and their sports teams everywhere I go, and I try to do it as best and as hard as I can.”

That’s what she said. No, seriously, that’s what she said.

MEET MIA KHALIFA, THE LEBANESE PORN STAR WHO SPARKED A NATIONAL CONTROVERSY

By most metrics, 21-year-old Mia Khalifa (not her real name) is doing pretty well for herself. She's educated, has a job that pays well and is successful in her field.She's a daughter anyone could be proud of. Except Khalifa’s parents aren’t proud of her. They’re embarrassed, she says, because her job, which pays well enough to support her at the age of 21, is in porn. And Khalifa is not just any porn star—she was recently ranked the most popular actress on Pornhub.com, the 71st most-visited website in the world, according to the web traffic analytics firm Alexa (for comparison, cnn.com ranks 73rd and nytimes.com ranks 97th). On average, every day, millions of people around the world see Khalifa’s face—and other parts of her, as well.Born in Beirut, her parents moved to Montgomery County in Maryland when she was around 10 years old. She has a B.A. in history from the University of Texas at El Paso. Based in Miami, she has her own place at a time when one in four people her age live with their parents (who also live with their parents).

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For Khalifa's Lebanese immigrant parents, pornography is not an acceptable way to make a living. And in recent weeks, the debate over her career choice has expanded beyond a family disagreement to a national conversation in Lebanon about the roles of pornography and the Internet.By her own admission, Khalifa isn’t very interested in Lebanese politics. “I don’t want us to be bullied by Syria or Israel, but I’m pretty indifferent towards it,” she said in an interview with Newsweek. But she isn’t shy about repping her Lebanese heritage on social media, either. On her left arm is a tattoo of the opening lines of Lebanese national anthem: كلنـا للوطـن للعـلى للعـلم (translation: All of us! For our Country, for our Flag and Glory!). On her right wrist is a tattoo of the Lebanese Forces Cross, the symbol of a Lebanese conservative Christian political party opposed to the Syrian Bashar Assad regime. Her father is a Lebanese Forces supporter, she says. She got the cross on her wrist two years ago, after the October 2012 Beirut bombing, in support of her father, “to show him, 'I’m on your side.'"Both tattoos have generated controversy in Lebanon. Her critics say she’s shaming her country by appearing in porn with the Lebanese national anthem tattooed on her body, she says. “They’re embarrassed I’m ‘claiming’ them—as if I had a choice. I was born there.”Lebanon, a country of just under 5 million, is one of the most liberal countries in the Middle East and has the most religious diversity of any nation in the region. But it spent the years from 1975 to 1990 locked in a bloody civil war, the aftershocks of which are reflected in the polarized political landscape of today. In recent years it has been plagued by political deadlock, such as when it spent 10 months in 2013 and 2014 without a government because its conservative and liberal coalitions could not come to an agreement.
Khalifa's conservative parents, meanwhile, have denounced her to the Lebanese media, she says. “No one in my family is speaking to me,” Khalifa says. She describes her parents as “extremely strict, overbearing, and very conservative—they assimilated to American culture by latching on to the Republican party.”Few parents are happy to learn their child has elected to pursue a career in pornography. Most come around after a few weeks, Khalifa says. But what happens when your career becomes the subject of national debate? “It's blown up on such a huge scale," she says, attracting coverage in Lebanon and in Lebanese news channels in the U.S. "Everybody from my second cousins to family friends to my parents’ friends know…it’s not something that’s going to be forgiven.”Khalifa says she feels guilty that her family has been caught up in the controversy. “I’ve dragged their name through the mud,” she says. "I feel guilty for dragging them into this and having all their friends know now that it’s on Lebanese media. But that was never my intention.”Various pundits and commentators have latched onto Khalifa as a talking point in the ongoing debate over pornography and the Internet in Lebanon. According to the Lebanese Examiner, several Beirut-based newspapers printed unfavorable articles about Khalifa. She responded on Twitter.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 Facebook. “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.”

Lebanon’s Internet, while slow (only Beirut has 4G), is generally not restricted, according to a 2014 report by the international watchdog organization Freedom House. But that may be changing. In September, the country’s Telecommunications Ministry ordered Internet service providers to block access to six pornographic websites for reasons of “societal decency.” Khalifa suspects the new, intense focus on her may be related. “I think that’s why they’re latching on to me. They’re using me as a tool,” she says.Most of the hatred Khalifa gets on social media comes from Lebanese men who have seen her movies, she says. Death threats are not uncommon.

Conversely, most of the support that comes her way on social media comes from Egypt, she says.

Khalifa says she doesn’t plan on staying in porn forever: “It’s not something I’d make a career out of, but I’ll ride it out 'til I can’t do it anymore.” Until then, she just wishes the media would leave her family alone. Asked if her career was worth losing her family, she said she wasn't sure. “I can’t say it’s worth it,” she says. “But I can’t self-pity, because I consciously made this decision myself.”

Inside Mia Khalifa’s Mysterious Rise To Porn Superstardom

Mia Khalifa's first porn scene, the then-21-year-old is sitting on the lap of a caramel-skinned dude named Carlos. Her breasts are like newly inflated volleyballs on her tiny frame, her makeup is more Miami nightclub than horny hipster, and she giggles incessantly at the cameraman's jokes.
"You are looking at Mia," the disembodied voice on the other side of the lens says. "And she is here for—Mia, what are you doing today?"Red-lipped smile, coy glance sideways, tits squeezed together: "I'm gonna get fucked!"The video was posted to Scoreland, a blog for the adult entertainment company Score, on October 17, 2014, and in the ensuing nine months a lot changed for the Lebanese-born woman. On December 28 PornHub—one of the biggest porn piracy sites in the world—announced Khalifa had become its most searched. Somehow, that story landed in the hands of the Lebanese Examiner, which ran an article saying Khalifa was creating a shitstorm in her home country.

"Lebanese natives are upset and offended by her work," the website wrote, "Especially because she often boasts her Lebanese heritage on Twitter and Instagram."Two days after that story appeared Khalifa uploaded a video to her brand new website. In it she and her “stepmom”—both clad in hijabs—have a threesome with her white “boyfriend.” Khalifa allegedly began getting death threats from Muslim extremists around the world—one showed her head juxtaposed onto the body of an orange-jumpsuit-clad ISIS beheading victim—and, as if on cue, the American media picked up the news. Stories about the "Lebanese porn star getting death threats" ran at CNN, The Washington Post and Newsweek, as journalists who typically cover political upheavals and international diplomatic relations spilled pounds of ink about a nubile young porn star.

"Since breaking into the business," says Megan Wozniak, director of marketing for adult entertainment company Adult Empire, "[Khalifa] has reached stardom in the industry on a global level."But now people have taken a step back. Why, many are wondering, did Khalifa get so popular so fast? Lots of girls shoot to fame quickly in the porn world, but most of their careers are trackable. They film scene after scene in Los Angeles, crafting an image and building a brand. Khalifa, on the other hand, works out of Florida, never does press (she declined to be interviewed for this story), and appears to have only shot about 12 pornographic scenes in her entire life.When one industry insider tried to ask around about her, he says, "I had a bunch of people go, 'Who?'"Khalifa's background story has been made public time and again. Born in Lebanon, she moved to the United States with her parents in 2000. She spent time at Massanutten Military Academy in Virginia, then graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso. By the time she was 18, she was married and appears to be married to this day.But Khalifa was already getting interested in sex work. In 2012 she posted a series of naked pictures to Reddit's gonewild page. In February 2014 she resurfaced on Reddit, this time on its cuckolding page. Before long she had professional porn pics done, and suddenly, she appeared in her first video on Scoreland. The company that runs the site claimed to have discovered Khalifa while she was working at a Whataburger across the street from its offices.

Mia, it says, is also known as "the busty girl behind the counter at the hamburger joint."

“PORNHUB IS NOTORIOUS FOR STUNT PR. WE FALL FOR THIS STUFF OVER AND OVER AGAIN.”

—DR. CHAUNTELLE TIBBALS

From that video on her career became murkier. She allegedly signed with an adult company called Bangbros. Her Twitter bio briefly read "proud Bangbros contract girl," but she quickly took that down. She appeared in one photo wearing a Brazzers shirt, but, unlike most girls in the industry, she never tweets about porn, and she hasn't appeared in a new scene since February of this year.

That some of this seems suspect doesn't surprise too many people. "PornHub is notorious for stunt PR," says sociologist Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals, who studies porn and culture. "I remember one particularly egregious one was, 'We are going to get an intern to help us devise a marketing campaign for a billboard in Times Square.' And there was never a billboard. There never was a deal. It was never a thing. And yet, I think I myself responded to three or four [press] queries: 'What do you think about the mainstream buying ad space for porn?' We fall for this stuff over and over again."

It's especially unsurprising when one considers the adult entertainment conglomerate with which Khalifa is associated. Both Brazzers and Reality Kings are owned by a company called Mindgeek (formerly known as Manwin), which has a near-monopoly on the porn industry. Among Mindgeek's many acquisitions? PornHub. "It's not a secret at all," adult performer Casey Calvert says. "Mia had the power of Mindgeek behind her...she shot that one video for Bangbros, and they took that scene they shot to deliberately cause controversy and turned it into this whole thing."What is a mystery, though, is why Khalifa's publicity campaign was so successful. Most professional porn industry insiders have never heard of her: "I may be out of touch, but I don't know who that is," one director says."I don't know anyone who has actually spoken to her," another insider added.

"No one really does know who she is," Calvert says. "She was never out [in L.A.] working."

And yet, in addition to heavy-hitting political sites, Khalifa is being covered by pop media (including us). After being named PornHub's #1, EDM duo Timeflies released a song dedicated to Khalifa, aptly titled "Mia Khalifa." It has millions of hits on both SoundCloud and YouTube.

And just last week she called out NFL player Duke Williams for creeping into her DMs. Earlier this year she said Drake had done the same. Both stories spread like wildfire around the Internet.

In other words, the porn industry may have conjured her up, but the mainstream media made her.

Plenty of theories are flying around about why Khalifa caught on the way she did. The most common is the most obvious: She represents something taboo at the peak of that taboo's 15 minutes. It's not just the hijab; Khalifa has tattoos of the Lebanese National Anthem and the Lebanese Forces cross. But by all accounts, she is not Muslim, but Catholic.

"There is this really complex intersection of race and religious symbolism that we as a public are doing with her,” Tibbals says. "The idea that she is, for better or for worse, highlighting that there are a bunch of women out there who may [wear a hijab] and who also have sex... it points to the loaded nature of that symbolism."

Then there's the audacity theory, that calling out pro athletes and openly expressing her sexuality is a service to women. "I would say that that aspect of her not taking any shit is appealing to many people," Tibbals says.Calvert suggests it may be the mystery surrounding her: "Mia Khalifa, the girl who shot the hijab scene...

[Mindgeek is] trying to prevent her from being just another porn star."

“I WOULD SAY THAT THAT ASPECT OF HER NOT TAKING ANY SHIT IS APPEALING TO MANY PEOPLE”

—DR. CHAUNTELLE TIBBALS

Adam Taylor, who penned The Washington Post piece, says he wrote about her as a new way of getting into international relations."It’s great when stories offer a different entry point to something complex or heavy," he says via email. "A story about a Miami porn star who was getting death threats from Lebanon seemed an interesting way to get people reading about the Middle East and Lebanon.""From what I can glean, her popularity is mainly due to a perfect storm of publicity, her ethnicity and timing," porn agent Mark Spiegler says. "Had she been a ‘Muslim’ porn star five years ago it would not have made a difference. But now with all the talk of Muslim ‘extremism,’ Muslim ‘terrorism’ and IS (Islamic State), people seem to make a bigger deal of her religion/ethnicity."It wouldn't be the first time scandal has rocketed a sex worker to fame. In the past two years it's happened twice with Belle Knox (a.k.a. "The Duke Porn Star") and Kendra Sutherland (a.k.a. "Library Girl"). Both women were in college when their scandals hit the news cycle and landed them porn fame.Khalifa's mix of sex, politics, and religion have created a heady cocktail that is transforming the ways we are talking about porn. She's at the center of a new era of porn star—diverse, mysterious and not afraid to call out anyone who is sliding into her DMs. Even an apparent lull in Khalifa's shooting schedule can't stop her ubiquity.

Mia Khalifa Wiki and Biography

Mia Khalifa is a Lebanese American actress and adult model. She was born on 10 February 1993 in Beirut, Lebanon. She moved with her family to the United States in 2000.

After that, she shifted to Montgomery County, Maryland and their she attended Northwest High School. After few years she graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. She currently resides in Miami, Florida.

Personal Profile

Name : Mia Khalifa/Mia Callista

Date of birth : 10 February 1993

Age : 23 years

Birth Place : Beirut, Lebanon

Residence : Miami, Florida

Nationality : Lebanese/American

Height : 5'2"

Weight : 55 kgs

Religion : Christian

Occupation : Actress and model

Family

Khalifa's family is Catholic and she was raised in that religion. She said that her parents have stopped talking to her because of her career choice. In a statement, her parents disassociated themselves from her actions.

Her decision to enter the industry did not reflect her upbringing. They also said that they hoped that she would leave the industry, saying that her image did not honor her family or her home country.

arriage/Husband

Mia Khalifa is married to an American man in February 2011 shortly after she turned 18.

Career

Mia started her career in the adult film industry in October 2014. She had been working at a local fast food restaurant when she was approached by a customer and asked if she ever wanted to be in adult films. 

With more than 1.5 million views, the 22-year-old Khalifa became the most searched-for star on adult movie sites.