Mia Khalifa has opened up about her decision to pose nude more than a decade after her famed three-month stint as a porn star.
The 33-year-old is the most Googled adult content star in the world, thanks to a controversial video of her performing in a hijab, which saw her disowned from her family and receiving death threats from ISIS.
Now, 11 years on, Khalifa has revealed she has 'grown mentally' which has allowed her to remove the roadblocks she'd placed before herself to prevent her ever doing nudity again.
During an interview with Show Studio, the Lebanese-American media personality said she had previously wanted to 'spite the world' because of so many comments she receives on her social media posts.
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Although she attributes these comments as being written by 'people in their mother's basements,' and insisting she 'doesn't take them to heart whatsoever,' Khalifa had avoided nudity because of comments like, 'why are you wearing clothes? We've seen it all anyway.'
"Part of me wanted to be spiteful and not show myself and gate keep.. because I look very different now, I'm a completely different person than I was 11 years ago, so they didn't deserve to see it," she said in the interview.
"But, the more I healed, the more I did therapy, I realised that I'm proud of myself, I'm proud of my body."
The former porn star also quite rightly pointed out it's 'different to admire nude photography' and seeing it in fashion, than seeing it in pornography.
"I had to reconcile all that, that I loved and was inspired by and things that I felt like I wanted to do creatively because I could, with that aspect of it." she said.
Fortunately, Khalifa, who has more than 28 million followers on Instagram alone, was able to arrive at the conclusion she was only hurting herself by not creating the art she wanted to make.
"These people don't care, they don't matter, me putting that roadblock from myself, that's not hurting them, it's not doing what I thought it would to them," she said.
"In fact it's just hindering me and my creativity and my autonomy. I'm putting limitations on myself that they've imposed on me without me even knowing, so growing out of that is why I feel like it's right time now."
She continued, referencing her campaign with Ludatrix, in which she posed nude, in a pair of red latex stockings.
"It's not like a conscious decision like, so now I'm going to do nudity again, it's more so, does the art warrant it? And it did," she said, "what the f*** do you wear with a pair of latex stockings? Nothing! That's the best outfit with it."
It comes after Khalifa revealed she was reclaiming her body image with 'never-before-nudes' in the form of a series of X-ray images.
SHOWstudio shared the images on social media, writing: "Icon and activist @miakhalifa reinterprets the power of the body with her SHOWstudio Boxset contribution. ‘Never-before-seen’ nudes, offer a witty and personal take on the concept of nudity, reclaiming her own image with X-Rays, wearing jewellery from her brand Sheytan."
Topics: Celebrity
Emma Rosemurgey