A couple of years ago I wrote how I was amazed by those who get a living from the porn industry then talk bad of it, like they were forced to join it. Of course any former porn actress is entitled to make critics, as well as any former porn actress has the right to notice (after years that she works into it) that the porn industry is about using women's body for entertaining male audience.
Now I read that two former porn stars, Mia Khalifa and Lana Rhoades, in different context, recently ranted that even though they are no longer in porn (for the latter the situation is not clear, to be honest, since it seems she goes back and forth in the industry), in their mainstream activities (sports commentator the former, small entrepreneur the latter) their past as adult star is often reproached (for completeness of information, Khalifa claims to have been in porn for 3 months only earning only 12,000 $, whereas Bangbros claims that she worked at least 3 years with them and was paid more or less 180,000 $).

My question is: ok, it's normal that you wish - rightfully! - to cut with your past and become successful with a new activity which you feel you're more inclined to than simply pulling your clothes away in front of camera and engaging in sex for audience's entertainment. But did you just have to start your new life using the same name which you became famous as porn star with?
Maybe if Mia Khalifa had started her new business as Sarah Obrien and Lana Rhoades as Amara Maple [1], their birth names, no one  - unfairly, mind you! - would have accused them of building a respectable life using the fame acquired with the less respectable one [2] ?

[Note 1]: I am not doxxing them, their stage names are trademarks registered at the - freely accessible - United States Patent and Trademark Office, where the publicity of a performer's real name is mandatory for the association of it with the stage name / trade name.

[Note 2]: Of course I don't judge "less" respectable the job as porn star. I am critical of those who substantially contest them the right to a normal life on the ground that once you do an allegedly "less respectable" job you've a permanent stigma. That said, just because an adult star should know that, she shouldn't be surprised if someone sometimes recalls them how the name they use has become famous. They have their right to life change. They become less credible when they pose as naive "Born Yesterday" who ignore that their name carries their past.