Lisa Cuddy: The Most Unprofessional Administrator of All Time

"When you bend over, I can see your IUD." Gregory House, M.D.

Let me begin by saying I love House. I love Hugh Laurie. I love Wilson. I love Robert Sean Leonard. I don't, however, love Lisa Cuddy.

I'm not sure where to begin but I know where it will always end up. Her fricking attire. Cuddy is supposed to be the administrator of a huge, well-respected hospital in Princeton, New Jersey. And yet she dresses in too tight skirts with too tight and too low cut blouses and sweaters like she's auditioning for a Hot for Teacher video. If I walked into a hospital and saw someone dressed like that I would assume either a) she's a stripper who suffered a slip and fall from the pole at work, b) she's an "enterprising" legal assistant/paralegal who is sleeping with her boss who is representing said stripper over the said slip and fall or c) she's a hospital receptionist who is looking to bag a wealthy doctor.

Okay, maybe a bit extreme but isn't Cuddy supposed to be over 40? I know the show likes to pull revisionist moves, like telling us a season or two ago that Cuddy was pushing 40 (bitches, PLEASE) after telling us from the beginning that Cuddy and House met in medical school - - but the bags and wrinkles under Cuddy's eyes tell me she's AT LEAST early forties, if not mid-forties. Nothing wrong with that. Except that the show insists on dressing her like the twenty-somethings play teenager-somethings on 90210.

Just stop, already. Dress her like a woman who has completed medical school, worked as a doctor and worked diligently to achieve that level of success. She can still be attractive and, yes, even sexy.

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Melissa (Avid Reader)May 25, 2010 at 9:31 AM
This is hilarious. I love that show, but I agree. I'm always blown away by what she wears... not in a good way. I do love that House always calls her out on it though.
DonnaFebruary 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM
The reason as you mentioned is, that "the show insists on dressing her". It isn't her fault. They chose to dress her provocatively. It may bring more men to watch the show and some women try to dress like her. But, not many women have that body at 40. I believe another reason they had her dress like that is because of her body and simply because they could...

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