Mia Khalifa second most searched pornstar on Pornhub in 2019 despite quitting adult film industry 4 years ago
It may come as a surprise that former pornstar Mia Khalifa continues to rule the charts at Pornhub, despite quitting the adult film industry years ago.
According to the latest stats released by Pornhub for 2019, Khalifa was the second most searched female pornstar of the year, even though she has been absent from the site since 2015 when she stopped making porn films.
Her videos were viewed 269,073,766 times, which was only less than Lana Rhoades, who became the most searched pornstar on Pornhub, racking up 345 million views on her clips.
Some of the other names on the list were Riley Reid, Abella Danger and Brandi Love.
After Mia immigrated to the United States from Lebanon as a child, she led a seemingly smooth life and even opted to study history at the University of Texas.
At the age of 22, Khalifa decided to venture into the adult film industry, which resulted in her family disowning her after they found out that she was working as a pornstar.
"They disowned me when they found out. I felt completely alienated by not just the world, but my family and the people around me," she said in an August interview.
"Especially after I quit, when I was still alone, even though I left. And I just realized some mistakes aren't forgivable. But time heals all wounds, and things are getting better now," she added.
Although Mia only spent three months as an adult actress, she took the industry by storm after she performed sexual acts while wearing a hijab — an act that earned her a number of death threats.
In an interview with Megan Abbott, she said, "When I did the hijab scene... that is when the ISIS death threats came in. The news broke globally, not just in America."
"I was banned from a handful of countries. What I actually said when they proposed the scene to me, and this is verbatim, was 'You motherf*****s are going to get me killed'," she added.
The controversial scene also caused her social media profile to become popular overnight. "I think I went from 400 followers on Instagram to like 200,000 in the span of three days."
Mia continued, "And then it just kept snowballing until I was at like 2 million, like six months later. This was after I quit porn. It just kept growing and growing and growing. And then my Instagram was hacked by ISIS."