Saira Khan has told that she isn't a practising Muslim and she's worked up the courage to make the revelation at the age of 50.
The former Loose Women panellist explained in her column for The Mirror that she'd been raised in a Muslim household, but had kept quiet about straying from the faith for so many years for fear of upsetting her family.
She added that many of the best things to happen in her life - from the adoption of a child to her marriage to husband Steve Hyde - have conjured feelings of guilt in her. "I know that one of the reasons I have been so angry and unhappy in my life is because of the many contradictions I've had to live with," Saira writes. "My milestones have always been tinged with shame and guilt – marrying
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