Rachel Bilson\u2019s <\/strong>candor once backfired on her. <\/p>\n Last week, the 44-year-old actress appeared on the Why Won\u2019t You Date Me?<\/a><\/em> podcast hosted by Nicole Byer <\/strong>and recounted how she got fired from a job after joking about her bedroom preferences in a May 2023 episode of the Women On Top<\/a><\/em> podcast. <\/p>\n While The O.C.<\/em> alum \u2014 who shares daughter Briar<\/strong>, 10, with ex-fianc\u00e9 Hayden Christensen<\/strong> \u2014 noted that she could \u201csee both sides,\u201d she explained that context is crucial as she was having a fun conversation. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen you take something out of context and just read it as a standalone comment, thought, whatever, it can come off a certain way, sure,\u201d Blison remarked. \u201cWhen you\u2019re talking like, basically, with girlfriends and you\u2019re joking around, and I said something like \u2018I like to be manhandled.’\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cBecause I used that word in whatever context, and they just took that out of the conversation, it didn\u2019t sound great,\u201d she admitted. \u201cBut I think it was a very conservative company, so they weren\u2019t comfortable just talking about sex at all. In general.\u201d<\/p>\n The Heart of Dixie<\/em> alum \u2014 who never revealed what job she was let go from \u2014 shared that the experience influenced what she publicly discusses. <\/p>\n \u201cI definitely felt myself filtering a little bit after that, \u201cCause I was like, \u2018Oh my god, if I say this, am I gonna lose this job? Am I gonna be judged? Shamed?\u2019\u201d she confessed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MEGA Rachel Bilson\u2019s candor once backfired on her. Last week, the 44-year-old actress appeared on the Why Won\u2019t You Date Me? podcast hosted by Nicole Byer and recounted how she got fired from a job after joking about her bedroom preferences in a May 2023 episode of the Women On Top podcast. While The O.C. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2044232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003],"class_list":["post-2044231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018The-OC-Alum-Rachel-Bilson-Recalls-Losing-a-Job-After.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA521174_004-scaled.jpg\")