Barbara Walters: "I Was Not a Gloria Steinem" — elle.com

At the start of her career in broadcast journalism, Barbara Walters was given a special assignment. Top brass at the Today show cherry-picked the promising young reporter to cover “A Day in the Life of a Playboy Bunny.” To tape the segment, the network dressed her in a strapless corset, ears, and a fluffy tail. Walters was unfazed. She suited up and filmed the piece in full stiff, satin regalia. On Tuesday night, the veteran anchor narrated such indignities, reflected on her early career, and revealed the “most flirtatious interview I’ve ever done” during an appearance at the Harvard University Institute of Politics.

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