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Charissa Thompson Made Heartbreaking Admission About Women In Sports Media
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Fox Sports broadcaster Charissa Thompson was the last guest of Kylie Kelce's top-rated podcast Not Gonna Lie and she offered some upsetting insight in to how tough it's been climbing the ladder.

During Thompson's appearance on Kelce's podcast, Kelce asked her if there's anyone that she feels "were a positive influence" in her broadcasting career. But Thompson admitted that the biggest impact has actually been left by the people who were the least nice to her. Thompson explained that other women in media can be "super catty and super competitive." She said that some treated her so badly that she pledged never to behave like they did. 

“I actually would go the other way, it was the women that were not nice to me that have left the biggest mark,” Thompson said. “Because then I’m like, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be that.’

“I won’t name any names, but there were, you know, a few people who, women, let’s just be honest, can be super catty and super competitive. Look, guys can be, too, but the narrative sometimes is perpetuated with women and jealousy and all that other stuff, because it’s true. So I remember a couple in particular that treated me a certain way and now I’m like, ‘I’m not going to be that.'”

Thompson wanted to make it clear that she has made it her goal to help anyone and everyone who wants help from her in climbing to the top in defiance of the people who deliberately stood in her way. 

“The young woman that comes up to me or the young woman that reaches out to me on Instagram that says, ‘Hey, I want to do what you do one day. Can you help me?’ My answer’s always, ‘Yes, of course, I can help you,’ because there is going to be a time where you have to pass the baton, and I hope that I get to do this job for a long time,” Thompson said. “But my goal is when that next person gets this opportunity, they can look back and have an answer to your question, which is, ‘She helped me,’ not tried to get in the way or be jealous of an opportunity.”

People can be pretty nasty in competitive fields regardless of gender. 

Fortunately it didn't change the way that Thompson treats others.

This article first appeared on The Spun and was syndicated with permission.

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