Sunny Hostin taped her breasts to prevent men from staring at them during a job interview.
The 55-year-old “The View” co-host started her career as a lawyer, but said she decided to flatten her chest because the stares directed at her breasts were so obvious. .
When discussing harassment with other hosts on The View, Sunny said: They looked straight at my chest.
“And I started strapping my chest to get jobs based on my qualifications.”
Sunny, who added that she has since had her breasts reduced, said she and her female colleagues in the legal profession never felt comfortable reporting harassment for fear of damaging their careers.
She said: “When I started at the Justice Department, when I joined a law firm…I had the option[to report harassment]but I didn’t want to use it to avoid being ousted. There wasn’t,” because the structure was patriarchal. ”
Sunny’s fellow “The View” host and former White House director of strategic communications, Alyssa Farrah Griffin, 34, said she received similar treatment.
She further added: “I was talking to young producers and it reflected some of the things we were experiencing in the workplace.
“When I worked on Capitol Hill, I had a direct boss and it was all the same thing.
“We were wearing high-necked tops and even looser pants. And…surprisingly, there’s actually no human resources in Congress.”
She said she and the other women eventually “banded together” and fired the unnamed man.
The conversation began last week with the publication of 81-year-old View colleague Joy Behar’s essay, “#MeToo: The Early Years.” In this essay, she reveals how she was harassed while working as an English teacher in the 1960s. .
Her boss told her that one of her grammar lessons was so “exciting” that she had to “throw ice down[his]pants,” she said, and also told her that she wanted to have sex at the blackboard. added.