Mia Khalifa warns Women who are considering Joining OnlyFans

Mia Khalifa issued a warning to young women who thinking about joining OnlyFans.

Since quitting porn, Mia has joined OnlyFans and is consistently reported as one of the platform’s top earners.

But in an episode of The New York Times’ podcast, The Interview, Mia told host David Marchese she hoped to ensure “that I’m not promoting (OnlyFans) as a platform that is an answer to women who are looking for easy money”.

She continued: “I have a responsibility to not promote it as something that any woman should join unless they’ve already been in the sex-work industry unless they’re over 25, their frontal cortex is formed unless they’re coming at it from a place that’s not.

“I don’t want to use the word ‘desperate’, but from a place of clarity and good intentions.

“From a place of agency and bodily autonomy. Not from a place of, ‘I need to do this because I want to live this lifestyle’.”

Since quitting porn, Mia has detailed the dangers of sex work and as a result, she has received “a lot of backlash from women in the industry”.

Mia explained it was difficult to strike a balance between discussing this while not further stigmatising sex workers.

She said: “It is contradictory of me to be on something and tell other people, ‘No, don’t join’.

“But I’m not saying ‘don’t join’. I’m saying don’t join so young, don’t join as an answer to all of your problems.

“Just don’t do something you could regret. The internet is forever.”

In 2014, Mia Khalifa shot to infamy when she performed a sexually explicit scene while wearing a Hijab.

The viral clip received backlash, with Mia getting death threats.

Reflecting on the video, she said:

“I became infamous by accident.”

“I entered the adult industry in October of 2014, and very quickly I was pressured to perform in a video where the context was that I was an Arab, veiled woman.

“The intent was to exploit the fact that I was Arabic and spoke Arabic, and I went through with it.”

Within hours of the video’s release, Mia said “the avalanche started”.

“Every news outlet picked it up, and everybody had an opinion.

“I was completely out of control of my image, my reputation. I feel like a lot of people have sl*tty phases when they’re 20, 21. Unfortunately, mine was in 4K.”

Mia Khalifa explained that the bitter criticism she received was what made her transition from adult film star to influencer.

She added: “I realised, this isn’t going to change; this isn’t going to get better.

“I don’t like the women that I work with looking at me a certain way, and I especially don’t like the men looking at me in a certain way because it’s like (I’m) a zoo animal.

“So I reopened social media, and I decided to try to be an influencer and a public person if that was the fate that I had sealed for myself.”