Sunny Hostin said she was shocked that "someone as strong and funny and interesting as Rosie equated having work done to being anti-feminist."

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[nickcarraway]

The View cohosts have reacted to former panelist Rosie O'Donnell's headline-making facelift — and the actress' comments about feminism as it relates to cosmetic procedures.

Days after the entertainer and ex-View moderator revealed that she underwent a facelift procedure, the talk show's current panel broke down the development, with some expressing shock over O'Donnell making a connection between feminism and plastic surgery.

"My friend Rosie O'Donnell is sharing how she was racked with guilt over her decision to get a facelift," Joy Behar said at the top of Friday's show. "She says she just wanted to look more rested and less haunted, but she admits she used to be against women getting work done on their faces" because, as O'Donnell said in an Instagram post, it felt like "a betrayal" of "feminism," "aging," and "our team of women worldwide."

Sunny Hostin admitted she was "surprised that someone as strong and funny and interesting as Rosie equated having work done to being anti-feminist," while Sara Haines also pushed back on O'Donnell's classification of the procedure.

"It's close to the whole tradwife vs. working woman, how we always talk about, well, is it bad, then, to want to be at home? It was always about choice," Haines said. "That's where equality comes, that's where the feminism really is. It's individual choice that makes it powerful."

Ana Navarro told the panel that she spoke with O'Donnell about the topic before the show aired, and said that she told the comedian that, for her, "being a feminist means doing something that makes you feel empowered and happy," and that O'Donnell informed her that she got the facelift "because I was looking sad when I'm feeling so happy" at this point in her life.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: rosieodonnell; theview

[mfish13]

Still ugly

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It's a real cat fight. I don't care what O'Donnell does on her own dime. What's it to Hostin?

As Dear Abby and Ann Landers would say: MYOB.

[xp38]

Just curious was this procedure done in Ireland or in America?

[Liz]

?

[alexander_busek]

Ana Navarro [...] told the comedian that, for her, "being a feminist means doing something that makes you feel empowered and happy."

Like getting an abortion. It's all about feeling "happy" and "empowered" - consequences / moral dimensions be damned!

Regards,