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"    Q: What went wrong on The View? A: We all changed over nine years \u2014 we weren&amp;#039;t the same pack as when we started. It would have been a lot better if we could have expressed that. It&amp;#039;s like having a good girlfriend when you graduate college, then you get your dream job and she doesn&amp;#039;t. In six or seven years, you might not be as close. That&amp;#039;s what happened on the show. Q: Any hard feelings? A: Even to this day, I consider Barbara [Walters] one of my role models. I think of her from the days of the Anwar Sadat and Fidel Castro interviews. It&amp;#039;s sad that the younger generation of women only knows her for some of the silliness of The View. How should I put this? Our past is as relevant as our present. But ultimately, you are your very last day.  Q: So you&amp;#039;ve got a new show. How is it different than what&amp;#039;s out there? A: It&amp;#039;s a talk show with a legal peg. I come at it from the juror&amp;#039;s perspective. I&amp;#039;ll be looking at issues like Imus being fired: Do we believe in First Amendment rights? Does freedom of speech extend to hate speech?  Q: And what&amp;#039;s your verdict? A: I would have fired Imus a long time ago. There&amp;#039;s a culture of hate that I think has no place in our country right now.  Q: Your fans love your bluntness.  A: But you can step in it, you know? There was arrogance. I earned the diva image. If you come across like a pompous idiot, other people might think of you as a pompous idiot. Some of the mean-spiritedness \u2014 I can understand.  Q: It must take a thick skin to ignore the comments, though. A: Look at me. Three years ago, do you think I&amp;#039;d ever appear without the lashes, hair, makeup? But now I&amp;#039;m more secure \u2014 why do I need to come here looking like Jessica Rabbit?  Q: So why did you do that before? A: Because I was completely insecure about my weight. You hide behind the wall you&amp;#039;ve built up. When you weigh 300 pounds, you can&amp;#039;t buy certain clothes because they don&amp;#039;t make them in your size. So you overaccessorize \u2014 shoes, makeup, jewelry, purses.  Q: Ironically, it was a purse that helped you confront your weight. A: It was the final straw. Every woman carries a little bag when she goes out \u2014 for her cell phone, keys, lipstick, and credit card. I had to put an asthma inhaler in mine. It didn&amp;#039;t fit. I hated it, but I literally couldn&amp;#039;t walk across the room without needing it to breathe.  Q: Ever wish you could go back to being anonymous? A: During one of the most stressful weeks of my life \u2014 the week after I left The View \u2014 I needed to buy personal items, like every other woman in America. So I drive to the drugstore and get my things. At the counter, every magazine has my picture on it with screaming headlines. I&amp;#039;m bracing myself because I know I&amp;#039;m going to get a question, and I don&amp;#039;t want to talk about it. I get to the register, and the young lady says, &amp;quot;How you doing, Mrs. Reynolds? Paper or plastic?&amp;quot; And it reminded me: Everybody&amp;#039;s just doing their job, baby.  Q: Are women in the TV industry making progress? A: Come on. Women still make 70-something cents to every man&amp;#039;s dollar, as if my bread somehow costs 30 cents less than his bread. That pisses me off. Donald Trump told me, &amp;quot;Star, they&amp;#039;d never have given you a hard time if you were a white guy.&amp;quot; We have to live with who we are. We&amp;#039;ll always be thought of as the chick in the skirt. It&amp;#039;s up to us to define who that chick is. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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