Pregnant pause

Have I mentioned that I'm tired of the endless lawsuits swirling around The Price is Right? A favorite theme is the pregnancy blues. Shane Stirling and Brandi Cochran both allege that their baby bumps cost them their modeling gigs on the show.



The linked column poses an interesting question:

...when it is your job to look thin and pretty on camera, I don’t know that a lawsuit claiming discrimination is in order. Sure The Price Is Right could choose to look really cool and earn a lot of bonus points by keeping on a pregnant model but if they hired her for a specific reason (her physique and modeling abilities) and she loses her physique don't they have a right to fire her? Should a model expect to lose jobs because of a pregnancy?

I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one in the blogosphere. But it seems like reasonable maternity leave could be arranged, so a model could return after the blessed event.



In my line of work, nobody much cares about an actuary getting pregnant as long as she can still crunch the numbers. But actuaries, as my photo on this blog proves, are not hired for their looks. In an appearance business like game show modeling, sure, an argument can be made that pregnancy is a disqualification. But it's a temporary disqualification, after all. Couldn't everybody save a lot of legal fees by allowing reasonable leave time?