We may be more accustomed to seeing her looking glossy and groomed on Loose Women but Saira Khan proved she doesn’t need the aid of makeup as she stepped out bare-faced on Wednesday.
The Loose Women star, 47, looked casually chic as she arrived at the ITV studio ahead of her stint on the show on a blustery Wednesday morning.
Battling the elements in an oversized green parka coat and a loose-fitting jumper, the outspoken star shunned cosmetics in favour of a natural look.
Saira Khan looked radiant as she went makeup free at the ITV studios armed with a coffee and shopping bags on Wednesday morning
Clutching a coffee, Saira appeared in high spirits as she arrived toting a huge Oliver Bonas shopping bag.
Her appearance on the show comes after the Muslim star said she’ll never stop wearing bikinis or standing up to extremists in a fiery rant.
Saira, 47, previously posted a bikini snap on Instagram in response to a preacher who said it was a sin for Muslim women to pluck their eyebrows – inviting the woman who made the remark to ‘kiss my [bottom]’.
The Loose Women star, 47, looked casually chic as she arrived at the ITV studio
Clutching a coffee, Saira donned a trendy green parka jacket. She appeared in high spirits as she arrived toting a huge Oliver Bonas shopping bag
Her defiant post attracted a flood of comments, including one that said ‘if you value your life keep the f*** out of Islam’, which Saira publicly reported to police via a Tweet.
Today the mother of two revealed her husband Steve Hyde pleaded with her to ‘let it go’ over fears for the safety of their children, but said she ‘can’t not speak up’.
She said on the show she would continue to wear bikinis and be a positive role model for Muslim women.
Saira had been on holiday last month when she discovered that a Muslim convert said women are committing a sin by plucking their eyebrows.
Saira Kahn went on a passionate rant on today’s Loose Women, saying she wouldn’t be silenced by Muslim trolls
Saira posted this risque bikini picture on Instagram, telling Muslim extremists to ‘kiss my bottom’
After being contacted by a fellow Muslim woman who said her husband had banned her from working in a salon, Saira said she felt compelled to speak out.
She said: ‘I could not believe what I was hearing , here was a woman, of all the things you can preach that’s going on in the name of our religion, she chooses eyebrows, and actually makes women feel bad about themselves.
‘”It’s a sin,” she said so I posted that in defiance, saying you are a prehistoric dinosaur for coming out with things like this.’
Saira received the ‘worst, vile comments’, including death threats, for her defiant post.
Defiant: The mother of two revealed her husband Steve Hyde pleaded with her to ‘let it go’ over fears for the safety of their children, but said she ‘can’t not speak up’
At the time a troll, posting under the handle @silverbengle, commented on Saira’s Instagram telling her to stay out of Islam if she wanted to live.
They posted: ‘Keep your f****** mouth shut! Your not a Muslim nor do you represent anything to do with Islam!!! Your white masters have given you what you desire as a sell out reporter!!! If you value your life keep the f*** out of Islam [sic].’
Saira said her husband warned that extremist ‘nutters’ could harm their children Zachariah and Aamara, and begged her to ‘let it go’.
Taking a stand: How Saira uses social media to shame online trolls
This is not the first time Ms Khan has hit back at vicious online trolls.
In May the star publicly called out a Muslim man who criticised her for baring her body in a candid shoot alongside her fellow Loose Women panellists.
Social media user Bilal Ali said that as a Muslim he was ‘disgraced’ to see the image. In a lengthy post, he told her she was not a role model and it was his ‘duty as a brother’ to tell her.
Criticism: Saira, second from right, publicly called out a Muslim man who criticised her for baring her body in a candid shoot alongside her fellow Loose Women panellists
Saira posted his comment in full with a very heated response, telling the man to ‘go and do one’
Saira posted his comment in full with a very heated response, telling the man to ‘go and do one’ and dubbing him a ‘narrow minded, misogynistic, brainwashed, backward idiot’.
She added that it was her choice to take part in the shoot and ‘if Allah doesn’t like it – let him deal with me.’
She concluded the post: ‘If a woman in a bikini offends your version of Islam – then seriously you should not be looking in the first place.’