Joy Behar, the liberal star of The View – who Trump fans love to hate – didn’t take the conventional path to stardom. (Fox News)
The 75-year-old “View” star was born Josephine Occhiuto but goes by the nickname “Joy,” and Behar is the last name of her first husband – whom she divorced back in 1981. The Brooklyn native once told The New York Times that her snarky, outspoken liberalism is a result of her childhood and Italian roots.
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She earned a master’s degree in English education and her first career was teaching English to high school students. As a teacher, her outspoken personality landed her in hot water on numerous occasions. She regularly spoke out against the Vietnam War, which didn’t always sit well with school officials.
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After a near-death experience in 1979 when she suffered an ectopic pregnancy, Behar gave up teaching to take a job as a receptionist at ABC’s “Good Morning America,” with aspirations of working in show business.
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Behar didn’t try to make it in comedy until she was almost 40 years old, according to The New York Times. Her typical routine included making fun of her teaching career, explaining that she isn’t Jewish despite her accent and attraction to Jewish men and expressing jealousy of women who lived during “The Fat Century” when Sir Peter Paul Rubens famously painted heavy-set women.
Behar was fired from Good Morning America but found her way back in to the good graces of the network’s execs – who have given her a platform to lecture viewers day in, day out on her supposed moral superiority.
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