The south Florida woman who claimed to have been kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight for displaying too much cleavage is speaking out on the distress she’s felt following the incident.
“I feel awful,” Brenda, 21, revealed in an interview with Inside Edition. “I can’t sleep. It is really affecting me, actually.”
Brenda, who chose not to disclose her full name to the public, told Local 10 News earlier this week that she was sitting in on a flight from New Orleans to Fort Lauderdale, when flight attendants approached her and accused her of being intoxicated and belligerent.
“They asked me if I was drunk … I said, ‘No, I am fine,'” she recalled.
Brenda said a flight attendant then resorted to a snide remark — suggesting she might want to dress more appropriately while on a plane.
“They mentioned my body was too exposed and it was obvious it was my breasts and said, ‘You need to cover up,'” she said. “I feel if I was smaller or someone with a smaller breast size, there would have been no issue.”
Brenda, who works as a waitress, said she has suffered severe embarrassment from the incident as she was was allegedly pressured to put on a coat before being asked to depart the plane.
Spirit spokesman Paul Berry told Local 10 the young woman’s story was inaccurate.
“Nobody was taken off a plane because of cleavage. People are taken off of planes because of their behavior,” Berry said.
“The flight attendant made that decision, and as she was leaving, she said, ‘By the way, you might want to cover up.’ It was more of a personal statement to her.”
But other fellow passengers didn’t seem too pleased by the staff members’ treatment of the 21-year-old.
“She tried to pull her top up further to cover more, each time another flight attendant came with the same issue, telling her in loud and rude tones that she’ll have to leave the plane if she can’t get them covered,” wrote witness Cathy Supp in a Facebook post.
“The way they treated her was terrible,” she later added.
“Maybe Spirit Airlines should change their name to Mean-Spirited Airlines,” said Brenda’s lawyer Ken Padowitz.
