Sunny Hostin reflects on her experience as a young lawyer.
During Friday’s episode ViewThe 55-year-old co-host and her peers were discussing Joy Behar’s recently published essay on workplace harassment, when Hostin detailed her own experiences as a young woman in the workforce.
“When I was moving up in the Justice Department and when I was moving up in law firms,” Hostin said. “We had opportunities [to report harassment]but I wouldn’t dare to use them so that I wouldn’t be kicked out of my position because the structure, it was patriarchy.”
Hostin also described how men would treat her during job interviews, and how she would “tie up” her breasts during meetings with potential employers.
“As everyone knows I had plastic surgery, I reduced my breasts. I remember so many interviews I gave as a young lawyer where the men never looked me in the face,” she said. “They just looked straight at my chest. And I started binding my breasts so I could get a job.”
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Hostin spoke with PEOPLE last year about her breast reduction and lift, as well as liposuction, which she underwent in the summer of 2022. As she said at the time, she wants to start a conversation about these types of procedures in an effort to destigmatize them, calling them a “health decision.” and a self-care decision.”
“I thought I was going to be embarrassed, like, ‘Oh my God, I’m getting plastic surgery like all these crazy celebrities.’ But I’m not ashamed at all,” she said at the time. “And I hope that sharing my story will help more people. If they feel as self-conscious about their bodies as I was – they can do what they need to do to feel better.”
Friday’s conversation comes after Behar’s essay “#MeToo: The Early Years” was published on Air Mail. In the essay, she detailed her experiences with workplace harassment as a teacher in the 60s.
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The essay marks the first chapter in Behar’s upcoming memoir, which PEOPLE confirmed in November. Behar told her co-hosts on View Friday that in the 60s, women had to “fend for themselves” when it came to harassment in the workplace. “We didn’t even have HR or pepper spray,” she said on the show.
“We could either yell at them or gouge out their eyes with keys. And this behavior was then shrugged off as ‘boys being boys’.”
In the essay, Behar recounted the moment her English department chair told her he “could have fucked you on the board.”
“I was torn. On the one hand, I was mortified. On the other hand, I was a single, single woman with no fund waiting for me, and the head of the English department liked my lesson,” Behar wrote. . – My thoughts were racing.
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Sunny Hostin on April 9, 2018 in New York City.
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In November, publisher Regalo Press announced that Behar’s book would showcase her “acute powers of observation and her ability to vividly recreate the minute details and fleeting moments that make up a lifetime.”
Slated for release sometime in late 2024 or early 2025, the as-yet-untitled memoir will feature Behar’s musings on relatives, hair, bullies and romance, while “taking aim at anyone and anything, including herself.”
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