Never one to shy away from controversy and stoking social media, the model and actress Kiko Mizuhara has revealed a recent episode from her glamorous, globetrotting life in which she was mistaken for a porn star in Paris.
According to her tweet, she was riding in an Uber in Paris when the driver asked her what job she does. When she replied she was an actress, the driver bluntly asked whether or not it was porn.
She wanted to vent and share the incident to highlight how disgusted she felt by the man.
Others have pointed out the high reputation that Japanese porn has overseas, which might well contribute to a taxi driver assuming (or even just joking) that a Japanese “actress” must be working in adult video.
Mizuhara’s haters, of which she has many (perhaps especially because she is of Korean descent), have stated that her penchant for explicit photo shoots don’t exactly contradict the Parisian’s question.
Some netizens also criticized Mizuhara for suggesting, in how she took offence to the driver’s assumption, that there were “ranks” of actress and that being an AV performer was somehow beneath her status, though she later clarified that it had not been her intention to discriminate, but rather to highlight how she was made to feel uncomfortable by such a personal assumption in the space of the car by someone she was meeting for the very first time.
