The Looker Vs. The Banking Giant

Sometimes women get hired for their looks.

Debrahlee Lorenzana was fired for hers.

At Citibank’s Chrysler Building, Lorenzana found that, though she dressed and behaved professionally, her good looks made her coworkers and bosses uncomfortable.

In 2008, they canned her.

Now she’s suing them for discrimination.

Citibank insists that the lawsuit is “without merit” but out of respect for their employees’ privacy declined to “comment more specifically on this litigation, this former employee's overall performance, or the reasons for her termination.”

Now, I’m trying to be objective here.

Maybe she was fired for legitimate reasons, whatever they might have been, and she’s using this to get a little center stage time.

Or maybe Citibank is guilty of discrimination, and they indeed fired her for being hot. Their comments (or lack thereof) don’t exactly make for a good image, though.

Either way, Lorenzana is lapping up the attention. Whenever the camera is pointed her way, she poses -- hip out, hair over one eye, lips slightly parted in a sultry pout. Her picture has turned up everywhere, comparatively speaking, since the lawsuit hit the headlines.

And we can't forget the fact that she went through liposuction and two breast enhancement surgeries prior to this whole incident, so it's obvious she's been trying for quite some time to look as attractive as she possibly can. After all, she admitted in a documentary about breast surgery that she's on the hunt for a man. "I know men have the fantasy of having a Playboy playmate. That's what I want to be. T**s on a stick."

So is she enjoying this media attention?

Yessir yabetcha!

“I’m no Angelina Jolie,” she insists, and I agree. Angelina Jolie looks like an anorexic mummy with balloon lips. Lorenzana has it all (albeit artificially), and she knows it, struts it, and is capitalizing on it.

Which makes me wonder: If she has the looks and loves the attention, why didn’t she just cut the crap and go into modeling in the first place? Citibank? Really?

I don’t have all the details of the case, so I’m not going to say whether I think she has a true complaint or not. But it’s pretty plain she’s set on coming out of this thing with SOMETHING -- if not a nice chunk of change, then lots and lots of attention.

I’m surprised major movie studios haven’t been calling her yet.

She doesn’t have to know how to act. Taylor Swift proved that.