The View’s Sara Haines left her co-hosts stunned on Friday’s show after admitting she doesn’t ‘cover up’ when she’s naked in front of her three young children because she doesn’t want them to ‘be ashamed of their bodies’ .
Following Bradley Cooper’s recent comments about walking around naked at home, Sara, 46, opened up about her own feelings about nudity and explained why she doesn’t mind Alec, seven, Sandra, six, and four-year-old Caleb coming in. on her without any clothes on.
Sara’s co-host Sunny Hostin seemed particularly shocked by her confession, asking her whether or not her kids had seen her “private parts,” while Alyssa Farah Griffin admitted that she’s a “prude” and doesn’t even like her dog seeing her . naked.
Ana Navarro also didn’t seem too thrilled with Sara’s attitude, joking that she was happy to have reached the age of 52 without seeing her “father’s trunk or mother’s hoo-ha,” but Sara was eager to explain why she chooses to to do that. lets her kids see her in her birthday suit.
The View’s Sara Haines left her co-hosts stunned after admitting she doesn’t ‘cover up’ when she’s naked in front of her three young children
Comedian Joy Behar admitted seeing men’s genitals on the beach was ‘traumatizing’ when she was a child
Sara explained that she doesn’t want Alec, seven, Sandra, six, and four-year-old Caleb to ‘be ashamed of their bodies’
Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin (right) didn’t seem very impressed with Sara’s stance
“I don’t like walking around naked,” she began. ‘I come from the generation where I’m still learning to love my body naked. I’m not often naked.
“I don’t immediately cover myself between showers and my lotions when my kids come in because I’ve been conscious of not making them feel ashamed of their bodies and reminding them that it’s science.”
Sara continued, “I breastfed for every child when they came over, I never hid it,” while Joy interjected, claiming, “That’s different,” to which Sara fired back, “Yes, but for a child they still see that breasts as food, they don’t look at them in the way we ascribe to them.’
The 81-year-old comedian then joked, “Oh, if only men would see them as food,” while Sara further explained her parenthood decision, saying, “I don’t think there’s an arbitrary age at which that should change.”
“I think you know your kids and if there’s a unique curiosity about something happening, they usually come in and they’re even angrier that someone has taken their toy or kicked them than what I do. So I don’t want to hide out of shame.’
Sunny, 55, still didn’t think it was funny and asked Sara seriously, “How much did they see?” Did they see any genitals?’ as the latter shouted, “She makes it sound like I’m an exhibitionist!”
In response to Sunny’s question, Sara said, “They saw everything they could see while I was applying my lotion. They’re not looking at me, they’re shouting!’ and when Ana asked why she doesn’t lock the door, Sara replied: ‘I don’t lock my children out of my room, that’s a 24/7 service I have to provide!’
Alyssa, 34, then said: ‘This would be different if they were 12 years old and at that age where you start thinking about things like that, but little kids… I’m so squeamish, my puppy walks in and I say : “Sorry, Herbie”, so who knows!’
Mum-of-three Sara wants to remind her children that bodies are ‘science’ and denies she is an ‘exhibitionist’
Sara added that her children usually “scream” when they rush in on her and pay no attention to her naked body
The TV host pictured with her husband Max Shifrin and their three children at Disneyland in November 2023
“I don’t know, I’m just glad I made it to 52 without seeing my dad’s trunk or my mom’s hoo-ha,” Ana joked, to which Sunny agreed, confirming that she also told her own parents had never seen nudity before.
Joy interjected, “I never saw anything as a kid, except when they took me to Coney Island and these men were wearing baggy underwear and Mr. Happy fell out of them and that was so traumatizing for me.
‘I was ten years old. I’d go to the beach at Coney Island, you’d go into the bathhouses and women would be bathing there!’
Sara jokingly replied, “You got over your trauma because you married the next man you saw naked in public!” while the rest of the panel burst into laughter.
The debate was in response to recent comments made by 49-year-old Bradley during an appearance at Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert Podcast.
After the host said his family was “naked all the time,” Bradley responded, “Me too,” before adding, “And by the way, I was like that too.” Not with my mother, but with my father. My father was always naked and always took showers with him.’
Dax, 49, then asked: “And you feel quite comfortable naked?” to which Bradley replied, “Totally.”
The actor also revealed that he and six-year-old daughter Lea – who he shares with former partner Irina Shayk – regularly chat while he’s on the toilet.
The panel talked about Hollywood actor Bradley Cooper, who recently revealed that he is ‘completely’ fine walking around naked at home
Bradley made the confession after Dax told how he and wife Kristen Bell’s daughters Lincoln, 10, and Delta, nine, regularly “waited” to go to the bathroom to talk during his “poop time.”
The Nightmare Alley actor laughed, “My bedroom is, the bath, the toilet and the bed are all in the same room. It’s 24/7, dude! There are no doors… the stairs go up and it’s all one floor.”
Dax then asked, “Do you think your daughter doesn’t care at all?”
Bradley replied, “Yes, no, no. We talk where I’m in the toilet, she’s in the bath; that’s kind of the go-to.”