‘The View‘ host Sunny Hostin reveals that when she was working as a young lawyer she used to tape her breasts down for job interviews because men “never looked at her face.”
On Friday’s (February 23) episode of ‘The View,’ the hosts discussed Joy Behar‘s newly published essay about workplace harassment called ‘#MeToo: The Early Years.’ 55-year-old Sunny Hostin recalled having to tape down and bind her breasts during meetings and interviews that way she would be taken more seriously. She said she’d do whatever it took to cover her curves as a young businesswoman.
Hostin said, “I recall so many interviews as a young lawyer where men never looked at my face. They just looked straight at my chest. And I started binding my breasts so that I could get a job based on my qualifications.”
The host also noted that she has since “had a breast reduction,” adding that she and her fellow female co-workers had never felt comfortable reporting the harassment out of fear it would negatively impact their careers.
She explained, “When I was coming up at the Justice Department and when I was coming up in law firms … we had options [to report harassment], but I wouldn’t dare use them. So as not to be blackballed out of a position because of the structure, it was a patriarchy.”
While some of Hostin’s ‘View‘ co-hosts insisted that things have changed for women in the workplace nowadays, Alyssa Farah Griffin said she experienced similar treatment despite being years younger than the rest of the other ladies.
Speaking on Behar’s piece, the 34-year-old former White House Director of Strategic Communications said, “I was talking to some of our younger producers and it mirrored some of the experiences we had in the workplace. I had a direct boss when I was working on Capitol Hill — all the same things. We wore higher neck tops, we worse looser pants, and … there’s not really an HR, surprisingly, in Congress.”
Griffin then noted that she and the other women eventually “banded together” and had the unidentified man “fired.” She explained, “It’s like every single woman has experienced harassment. The difference now — because of women like [Behar] and your generation — is there are places to report it and we have words to describe what it was that we experienced. We don’t just dismiss it.”
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