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   From: fools@albany.ny   
      
   Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, without naming any names, claimed in a   
   new book that male colleagues made off-color remarks about her   
   appearance – with one even allegedly squeezing her stomach and   
   telling her: “Don't lose too much weight now. I like my girls   
   chubby.”   
      
   The 47-year-old Democratic New York senator discussed her new   
   book, “Off the Sidelines,” in an interview with People, which   
   published the excerpts.   
      
   Gillibrand apparently did not say which members of Congress made   
   the remarks, making it a bit of a guessing game as to who might   
   have offended her.   
      
   She claimed another colleague approached her in the   
   congressional gym and told her: "Good thing you're working out,   
   because you wouldn't want to get porky!"   
      
   Gillibrand, who discussed how her weight has fluctuated during   
   her time in office, took over for Hillary Clinton in the Senate   
   in 2009, later winning election to that seat.   
      
   The anecdotes in the book, though, wouldn’t be the first time   
   her looks have been the jumping off point for inappropriate   
   comments.   
      
   In 2010, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly called her   
   “the hottest member.”   
      
   At the time, the senator was ranked at No. 3 on The Hill's list   
   of the 50 "most beautiful" people on Capitol Hill. A Gillibrand   
   spokesman claimed at the time that Reid was simply referencing   
   the Hill listing when he made the remark.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/28/dem-senator-claims-   
   male-colleague-told-her-dont-get-porky/?intcmp=obnetwork   
      
       
      
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