The argument of the critics was that a TV personality who had taken up the cudgels for a specific strand of ideology, was on record saying unambiguously that she was proud of the hijab, particularly in the form of black chador, and also had waived her right to privacy by disclosing stories of her personal life could only be branded duplicitous and two-faced when abandoning her cherished dress code while traveling abroad, even if not knowing she was spotted by paparazzi thirsty for candid, headline-making snaps.