Gillibrand drops f-bomb in interview

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said she wasn’t in a place to tell a “labor leader” who called her fat “to go f— himself,” recounting the conversation on Monday.

Gillibrand had the conversation shortly after she was appointed senator, to replace Hillary Clinton, in 2009.

{mosads}”I just had a baby, I’ve just been appointed, I have a lot to learn, so much on my plate, and this man basically says to me, ‘You’re too fat to be elected statewide,'” Gillibrand said in an interview with HuffPost Live.

“At that moment, if I could have just disappeared, I would have,” she continued. “If I could have just melted in tears, I would have.

But I had to just sit there and talk to him and I switched the subject and I didn’t hear another word he said, but I wasn’t in a place where I could tell him to go f— himself,” she added.

Gillibrand said that at a later time, “I kind of unleashed on him.”

The New York senators has been promoting her new memoir,  “Off the Sidelines,” which includes several stories of male lawmakers calling her “chubby” and making other derisive remarks about her appearance. She has not named the people who made those comments.

“It’s more important to elevate the debate, to have a national debate about how women are treated in the workplace,” she told HuffPost Live. “Because in the broad scheme, it’s a drag on the economy when you’re undervaluing women, nearly half of our workforce, and chronically paying them less and treating them poorly and not valuing them.”