![]() ![]() It’s a charmingly full circle moment from Mia’s first ever TikTok. She’s surrounded by sleeping Maltipoo dogs, in what is arguably the cosiest Zoom setup I’ve ever seen. “Not everyone is always going to think of me as ‘the pornstar’ or the ‘former pornstar’, some people are just going to know me – and that was incredible,” she tells me, as she calls in from her home in Los Angeles. But this year, now age 27, and thanks to the regularly called-upon saviours of 2020 – Gen Z and TikTok, with a #JusticeForMia campaign – public consciousness and the narrative around her ubiquity have begun to shift for good. The 11 videos featuring Khalifa garnered more than 642 million views on Pornhub alone. Khalifa is no stranger to the spotlight, having spent more than half a decade being publicly vilified for her three-month-long stint in the adult entertainment industry from 2014, age 21. There were however a few winners, sandwiched between cookie-cutter Connecticut teens and a 23-year-old footballer responsible for feeding Britain’s starving children (truly, you couldn’t write it if you tried), and among them was Mia Khalifa. In a year where “death” and “ TikTok” were among the most popular search terms in the world, success stories in 2020 are a coveted pandemic luxury. ![]()
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