Closer magazine: EXCLUSIVE Saira Khan on Loose Women feud: ‘Stacey Solomon was the fun one – I had to be loud and gobby’

Closer magazine recently attended the MaiLi Power brunch and interviewed Power panellist Saira Khan about our groundbreaking campaign:

Speaking at the The MaiLi MyPower event, she says, “A lot of my social media followers say, ‘My god, you’re so much happier, so much more relatable’, because I couldn’t be who I wanted to be on TV. On Loose Women you saw me being quite passionate, heated and feisty. But that’s the silo they put me in. I wanted to have a bit of fun, but that wasn’t for me, that was for Stacey Solomon. Stacey was the fun one, but I had to be the loud, gobby one.”

“The whole message of being a powerful woman for me is done through my skincare range now, which is giving me power,” she says. “I want to be defined as a very successful British Asian businesswoman and that’s what I’m working on. I want other girls to have more role models, and say, ‘Well if she can do it, I can do it!’”

• Saira spoke to Closer at the aesthetics brand MaiLi My Power campaign launch. The results of MaiLi’s global survey found that society tries to ‘take down’ powerful women. Sixty-one per cent of women have received abuse or negative comments in person or online, and their campaign aims to shine a spotlight on this judgement. For more info visit maili.com.

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