The TSA sends passengers through scanners to see beneath their clothing, but one woman was made to put on extra clothing before being allowed to be screened at airport security.
She was headed to Los Angeles, where wearing very little is de rigueur, and was told by screening staff that she was “exposing herself.”
Athena Vas, winner of 2021’s The Bachelor in Greece and host of The Athena Vas Show in Hollywood podcast filmed herself after the incident.
“Guys I literally just hauled a** to get here to gate B7 going back to Los Angeles,” she said.
“They put me through the ringer, they said I’m not allowed to wear this outfit.
“That it’s too, it’s exposing myself too much and it’s just inappropriate and I need to put a shirt on immediately,” she said.
She shared that the outfit issue caused her a slew of issues that kept her behind.
“They had to take my luggage through the ringer, TSA pre-check was not working.
“I had to take my Louboutins off, didn’t have time to put them back on so I ran through two terminals barefoot hauling my a** to get here,” she added.
The video does contain some language that is not safe for work (and not safe for work from home):
@iamathenavas Missed my flight
She didn’t leave much time to get through the airport, and missed her flight. Normally someone with PreCheck doesn’t budget much time for security, and the less you wear the faster you go through screening.
TSA publishes ‘fashion dos and don’ts for going through the checkpoint and says nothing about minimum clothing standards. We’ve all heard of “no shirt, no shoes no service” but TSA literally requires most passengers to take off their shoes. And as a policy matter, doesn’t dictate passenger attire, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the security process.
However underdressing can also get you a pat down if screeners find you attractive as some Denver TSA agents were caught doing.
I thought the job of the TSA is security to make sure no one has a bomb. Since when are they the fashion morality police?
The TSA should get out of the passenger attire screening business just like it should get out of the passenger ID screening business.
The TSA is wasting travelers’ money and compromising security whenever it is in the business of policing clothing choices and passenger ID.
Congratulate TSA for passing the vision examination .
Ah yes…Athena Vas…one of the giants of the industry.
I’m sorry…who is she again?
I have traveled to 33 countries around the world and have found the TSA security people in the United States to be the consistency the rudest, most disrespectful, and unprofessional of of any other country that I have been traveling in. Shaming someone for what they are wearing is a distraction from their primary function which is the safety and security of airplane passengers. I am willing to bet that it was a woman TSA employee who made this an issue. A jealous woman.
@Arturo S.
They would see somebody dressed like her and assume they need a cavity search to check for the bomb.
@TSA
Were you guys disappointed that you couldn’t use the backscatter scanning machine to look at her body? Well since she had pre-check you would have been using that anyway, so she just dressed in a way that you could still check out her body! Or were you upset about not getting to be an elite voyeur, because she was letting everyone else look too?
I agree with Athena , especially as the temperature was 108 degrees in there .
“I had to take my ‘insert brand name here’ off, didn’t have time to put them back on..”
The fact that she had to name drop her shoe brand makes me lose interest in her plight immediately
Lol. Have you passed by the TSA people in Egypt?
@JoeUnited
The only country that consistently give me a hassle
Don’t agree. LHR T-5 is worse.
LHR T-5 is very wrose.