Too hot for a lingerie company
A New Jersey woman says she was fired for being too voluptuous—by a company that makes erotic lingerie. Lauren Odes says she knew her employers at Native Intimates were Orthodox Jews, but was shocked nonetheless to be told she was “too hot.” The company, she says, “sells things with hearts on the female genitals and boy shorts for women that say ‘HOT’ in the buttocks area.”
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