Clearly, she is not altogether comfortable with the image she has created, and points out that the exposed breast in her picture belongs not to her but to Kate Moss. "Obviously I didn't want to paint my own, because that's also against our religion, to show your breasts. Or even paint one, actually ... I shouldn't really have done it, but I wanted to make a point." She explains that the picture of herself cradling a pig was not an attempt to shock or attract attention, but a way of exploring her own revulsion towards pigs, instilled by her religious upbringing.

When I mention the work of Theo van Gogh, the Dutch artist murdered by a Muslim fundamentalist who was angered by van Gogh's film Submission, in which women's breasts are visible through their transparent burqas, she does not seem to see a parallel between them. She dislikes his treatment of the Koran, which he shows projected on to a woman's naked back: "I wouldn't have done that."