Mia Khalifa has been causing a stir within relationships after offering some divisive marriage advice recently.
The 30-year-old model has been married twice, first in 2011 at just 18 years of age and then again in 2019, when she tied the knot with professional chef Robert Sandberg. Khalifa was also engaged again after Sandberg but called things off before the wedding.
Now the Lebanese actor has been describing herself as the "Tom Brady" of the marriage game on TikTok.
Taking to the social media platform on Tuesday (August 1), Khalifa said to her 37.8 million followers,
"Married at 18. Divorced at 21. Second marriage. Married at 25. Divorced at 28. Third engagement. Engaged at 29. Ended it at 30, but I kept the ring. I’m still keeping Tom Brady on his toes,"
Khalifa then goes onto say, "We should not be afraid to leave these men. We are not stuck with these people. Marriage is not a sanctimonious thing. It's paperwork, it's a commitment you make to someone, but if you feel like you're not getting anything from that commitment and you're trying, you gotta go."
In a follow up video posted yesterday (August 4) however, Khalifa revealed how, unsurprisingly, lots of very angry men had appeared in her comments off the back of her quotes in the earlier post.
"I'm failing to see what's wrong with it," the former adult film star begins, "I'm failing to see what's wrong with telling young women, who get married young that if they are in relationships that are unhealthy and are toxic and make them unhappy that just because they made a commitment, they are not stuck in these relationships."
Khalifa continued, "The only people who are mad, it seems like to me, are the men who are the toxic ones in these relationships, who are afraid of their women having these self-realisations and exercising free will and leaving them."
The original TikTok has so far generated 1.9 million views, while yesterday's follow up is currently clocking in at 830,000, with over 2,500 comments already rolling in.
Khalifa, who recently released her own jewellery line, called Sheytan, alongside Virgil Abloh collaborator Sara Burn, was publicly disowned by her own parents after she became involved in the pornography industry, claiming that her actions did not reflect her upbringing. The 30-year-old has long been outspoken against the patriarchy and champions women's rights on a regular basis, often taking to her various social media profiles to shut down her critics.
It's highly unlikely that Khalifa's follow up video will have gone down well with her detractors, which was likely also the actor's intention, as she often enjoys provoking reactions in conservative and right-wing commentators.
Since bringing an end to her career in the adult film industry back in 2015, Khalifa has worked as a sports presenter and a model as well as appearing in the Hulu show Ramy as herself, in a 2020 episode. On top of her new jewellery line, the 30-year-old runs her own YouTube channel and also livestreams on Twitch, where she has worked as a non-pornographic webcam model.
