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Swapping stilettos for our press badge and now claims of gender discrimination at a well respected big city newspaper.

A full time reporter -- -- for moonlighting as an exotic dancer.

The Paper claims she lied.

On her application for the job and -- Gloria all red.

Trace.

-- -- Tressel actually covered high society and fashion for the Houston Chronicle -- and the reason the Paper found that is the concern I had an online blog called the angry stripper.

Another Paper picked up on that and ran a story about her.

And the chronicle says she should have disclosed that she was a -- on her job application.

Here now it's Eric Pressler let's.

I don't believe that I should have been terminated because of a claim that I did not disclose I'm one application.

I worked as an exotic dancer.

There was no question on the -- that covered my dancing.

And they answered the questions on the form honestly.

She says she worked her way through journalism school as a stripper and she still doesn't occasionally to make a few bucks in the side go and -- stay in shape I guess a couple of turns around the polls Draper.

You're gloat snitching doesn't have a gym membership base hit than she does not have a gym membership.

She claims that her editors were very happy with her work and so now she's as you see -- Gloria Allred filing.

A gender discrimination.

Lawsuit Gloria says she's fighting her first Serra Serra says she's fighting for other women listen to both.

Since it's a female dominated occupation.

-- issues like this little -- discourage women from trying to improve their lives.

These women should not have to listen here that one -- prayer position in the career that I have worked very hard to achieve.

That their past work experience as -- cancer.

Won't jeopardize that position and.

The Houston Chronicle by the way will not comment further until they can actually read the entire lawsuits they're -- so you see there says that she will continue to work in journalism.

And she will also continue to strip on the side.

That it.

What was it her past work there was a problem or was at her contemporaneous blog called.

The angry stripper.

I think it was a combination.

All of a saying he evolved like if you wanted to keep it under -- that's probably not the greatest idea but you know the I see the problem here which is.

Apparently when you apply for a job of the Houston Chronicle they don't have the box.

Were you want to stripper stripper former stripper so there was nothing -- -- -- check.

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