This Congressional Candidate Once Posed For Maxim. Get Over It.
Alejandra Campoverdi graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, worked as a White House staffer for former President Barack Obama and, now, she’s running for Congress in California. She’s also modeled for men’s magazine Maxim.
That last part, Campoverdi argues in a recent essay for Cosmopolitan, shouldn’t make people question her ability to be a successful politician.
“Sexism and misogyny are nothing new in politics. Female political staffers and politicians have been facing off-color comments and leering glances and have been excluded from ‘at capacity’ meetings for decades,” Campoverdi begins her essay. “In fact, I assumed I’d already faced my biggest dose of sexism back in 2009.”
The 38-year-old describes how she became the target of horrible sexism when she began her job as the first White House deputy director of Hispanic media in 2009. One week in, photos from an old photoshoot Campoverdi did for Maxim leaked to the press and her hard work and success were immediately questioned.
“Right behind the photos followed the hotter, more humiliating blaze of unveiled snark that pointedly implied that I didn’t deserve what I’d accomplished and had been overambitious for even trying in the first place,” Campoverdi writes.
She explains that she modeled for Maxim because she was working as an unpaid intern on then-Senator Obama’s presidential campaign. “My time as a model was short and it helped me pay some bills,” Campoverdi writes.
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