--- title: Kirsten Gillibrand Harasser Revealed as Daniel Inouye in Report description: Report indicates it was Daniel Inouye canonical: https://time.com/3418545/kirsten-gillibrand-daniel-inouye/ author: Jay Newton-Small article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-22T15:55:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:20:12.462Z article:section: Politics og:title: Kirsten Gillibrand Harasser Revealed as Daniel Inouye in Report og:description: Report indicates it was Daniel Inouye og:url: https://time.com/3418545/kirsten-gillibrand-daniel-inouye/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52a81dbfc7532118/6986a49fadae44adf754514d/daniel-inouye.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2616 og:image:height: 1472 og:image:alt: Sen. 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Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) made waves in her recent book when she revealed that one of her “favorite” older U.S. senators once told her not to “lose too much weight now” after having her second child because “I like my girls chubby.” Gillibrand [told TIME](http://time.com/3306993/kirsten-gillibrand-porky-sexism/) two weeks ago that she wouldn’t name which senator had said this to her. “It’s less important who they are than what they said,” she said, adding she that hoped relaying the story would make women feel more comfortable when similar things happened to them. But [The New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/09/22/), citing unnamed sources, reports that that the Senator in question was the late Daniel Inouye, the legendary Hawaii Democrat and World War II veteran who passed away in 2012\. The _Times_ also points out that Inouye had a dark chapter in his history: In 1992 his hairdresser accused him of forcing her to have sex with him. 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