The clip, which apparently aired in 2003, began with Howard attempting to tell Sofía that he has a “big penis” in Spanish, which is her mother tongue. Then, when she took off her coat, Howard began making a series of crude remarks about her chest.
“You’ve taken off your coat. You do have a big chest. And I’m gonna tell you something — don’t touch it. I like it,” he told her, to which she smiled and said, “Thank you, thank you.”
“If I tell you your chest is attractive, you keep it,” he continued. Again, Sofía said, “OK. I’ll never touch it.”
Howard later asks Sofía if she breastfed her son Manolo, whom she welcomed when she was 19. She replied, “Yes, of course,” to which he said, “Oh, that must’ve been unbelievable.”
“That wasn’t unbelievable, I was, like, 19,” Sofía hit back.
Howard asked, “You must’ve had so much milk, right? How much milk?” Sofía let out a seemingly uncomfortable laugh and said, “Oh my God” before directly calling out Howard’s lack of “respect.”
“No respect here!” she said, to which Howard brazenly replied, “Ah, come on. I’m respecting you all over the place!”
“That kid must’ve been fed from eating all that milk,” he added.
Believe it or not, the interaction then got worse. Howard went on to tell Sofía, “I would love to feed from you… If you don’t wanna go out with me, then at least let me feed from your chest.”
Sofia jokingly replied, “But I’m not pregnant now.” Howard said, “That can be arranged.”
Reacting to the resurfaced clip, several Reddit users were rightfully disgusted at the interaction. “It just gets worse and worse and worse. One of the many faces of publicly accepted misogyny of the 90s and 00s,” one person wrote, while another said, “Never seen an interview with him where he wasn’t disgusting to any of the women he had on the show.”
“she even told him he was being disrespectful and he just brushed her off and made another gross joke,” someone pointed out, while one user praised Sofía for handling the interview “gracefully.”
Another person wrote, “Howard Stern just embodies so much of 90s misogyny to me.” One more user echoed, “This is fucking disgusting.”
Gross. Let us know what you think in the comments.
Lyndia Geddes
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