Did hotness earn 'Baywatch' babe Donna D'Errico a TSA full-body scan?

 

Don't full-body scan me just because I'm beautiful.

Such is the thinking of former "Baywatch" and Playboy babe Donna D'Errico, who along with her son was selected by TSA employees for a what she called a "naked" scan at Los Angeles International Airport recently.

"It is my personal belief that they pulled me aside because they thought I was attractive," D'Errico told AOL News on Monday.

Miss September 1995 said the TSA agent holding her by the elbow told her sarcastically that she was singled out, " 'Because you caught my eye, and they' -- pointing to the other passengers -- 'didn't.' "

D'Errico, who said nobody told her she could opt for a pat-down search instead of a scan, was "outraged" after seeing the agent who'd selected her "smiling and whispering with two other TSA agents and glancing" at her after the scan. 

She said the controlled environments and permissions that exist while doing swimsuit-TV or a naked photo shoot aren't in play "when TSA decides for you that you will consent to being scanned or felt up, or you simply won't be allowed your constitutional right to travel from one place to another freely."

"Baywatch" babe, Playboy model, now constitutional scholar. But hey, we're with you on the getting-felt-up-without-being-bought-dinner-first thing.

Silver lining: D'Errico -- who in 2008 endorsed limited-government guy Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) for president -- is now a likely front-runner to appear as Miss September on the next TSA Calendar.

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-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Donna D'Errico in June 2002 at a Gene Simmons event in West Hollywood. Credit: David Klein / Getty Images

 

 

Comments

[Jennifer]

Oh my gosh. Cry me a freaking river! She's complaining because she's TOO pretty???

*rolls eyes* Get over yourself.

[42istheanswer]

Hello has been, the career been a little slow lately? You started a career taking off your clothes. If they wanted to see you naked, a much better image is only a mouse click away.

[DB]

Oh good god get over it. TSA could see more by buying an old Playboy magazine that you were in.

The more people keep up this crap regarding scanners the more they will look like idiots when the next incident ends in tragedy.

[Jim]

Oh, yes, get over having your 4th Amendment rights violated! Get over being blackmailed. Get over being profiled because of the way you look... unless you look like an Arab Moslem, or an illegal alien, maybe.

The willingness of commenters here to surrender their Constitutionally protected rights is disgusting. I can only hope they are non-Americans, or regret they are no longer free people.

Maybe the article's author (Christie D'Zurilla?) should brush up on her 9th Amendment, along with a refresher on the 4th.

[Shape Shifter]

I think the issue here is Donna being forced to show her body to some schmuck in the TSA masturbatorium vs being the babe everyone wants to see naked and deciding for herself exactly what to let folks see and what not to let them see. If she has an ugly scar, that can be hidden in a playboy shoot but if the TSA pics pick it up and it gets all over the net it could end her career.

Also, for those of you who have not been sexually abused try to understand it as the difference between making love with your soul mate vs being raped. There is a huge difference between exposing your body because you know you are beautiful and want to share specific parts of that with others vs knowing you are beautiful and having some schmuck take all of what they want of that from you by force.

Oh and for those of you that feel safer being scanned/groped...aside from the cancer/injury risk being greater than the risk of terrorism, there are so many ways to defeat this system (surgical implanting a threat device, body cavity, self infection with a bioweapon, etc) that the terrorists are celebrating their victory now. They don't want to kill us, they'd prefer to destroy the freedoms we enjoy that they can't attain and with the new TSA policies we've essentially surrendered those freedoms to the terrorists. Thanks to the TSA the game is over and we've lost. This is not about air safety, there are many more civilized ways to accomplish that. This is about channeling taxpayer dollars into the pockets of Michael Chertoff and his buddies at Rapiscan. I hope to see Ms. D'Errico on a train some day where we'll have a laugh about how y'all are lining up to be irradiated, porno-scanned and/or groped.

[CDZ from the Ministry]

@Jim -- Christie D'Zurilla here from the blog. Reread carefully -- we're actually agreeing. I didn't suggest getting over anything, but in fact said "we're with you blah blah blah."

:)

//cdz

[d]

Hide your attractive 13 year old daughters.

[CDZ from the Ministry]

Christie D'Zurilla here from MOG with a gentle reminder that we don't publish comments that include vulgarity or profanity, even if you use symbols or acronyms to hide the words from the filter.

(I'm the filter. Go figure.)

Thanks for reading and commenting!

//cdz

[smrobin01]

Tick Tock. Tick Tock. That's the sound of someone's 15 minutes running out.

[Ray]

For Christ sake she is a Playboy bunny and was on Baywatch.....now she's worried about being exposed. GET over it...she is a washed up has been wanting attention. She's just pissed cause she didn't get paid for it! It's called go to Sunset Blvd honey.

[Lysette]

So far only a couple of intelligent comments and a lot of stupidity from the rest. Sheep! Security at the airport is seriously flawed. I will not be groped or radiated in order to travel. I'm glad Ms. D'Errico went public with this story. Anything that exposes the TSA for what they are is a step in the right direction.

[noone3]

TSA checkpoints are the perfect murder zone

In my opinion TSA has helped the terrorists or anyone wiishing to murder lots of people, do it easily. Why do I say this?

1. At every airport in the U.S. they have created a holding/choke point (in the name of safety).
2. At that holding/choke point lots of people get stacked up (to keep them safe).
3. All the bad guy has to do is have a bomb of some sort in his/her carry on luggage.
4. Show his/her plane ticket and ID to TSA agent #1, and get in line with the other peole waiting to get scanned or patted down.
5. Before getting to TSA agent #2 while standing in the large group of people, detonate his/her bomb.
6. This will murder lots and lots of people.

The only thing TSA does, is stop airplanes from possibly flying into government buildings. And that is even questionable.

What will the DHS do when this scenerio actually happens?

[mike]

please she is 42 years old she should be thankful she was even singled out she' s old I think someone just wanted there old has been self mentioned in the news...did i mention she's old.

[JustAGirl]

The irony of this story is that I was worried that we (women) would be pulled aside to be felt up. I can deal with a screening and I have never been a Playboy slut. What are they seeing that they haven't seen? However, I can't deal with being felt up. I might cause an incident if they touch the wrong place and I'm not kidding. I don't care what gender the person is. I do not react well to groping.

[Matunos]

I'm sure that TSA guys thought he was being smooth with her. Instead, I think it's called 'liability'. See you in harassment training, jerkoff.

[doc killdare]

dam right this tsa crap is a vilation of the 4th amendment and needs to be opposed by all....anyone out there foolish enough to believe that these procedures are for our protection needs only look back to 1932 germany. take a good hard look at the mission of the gestapo and then compare it with the dept of homeland security today. you will find that they are EXCATLY the same in every way other than name.....if you keep to that cowardly attitude that "hey i got nothing to hide..." then you deserve to live in a facist dictatorship and dont worry you soon will...if you dont learn from history you are doomed to repeat it!!