A former Price is Right model Shane Stirling claims she was fired from the show for being pregnant.

Stirling claims that after she announced her pregnancy in December 2006, she was “forced into an early pregnancy leave, was not allowed to return to work for almost a year after her child’s birth and was fired abruptly.”

In the lawsuit, filed in L.A. Superior Court on Friday, the former Price is Right model claims Bob Barker played a significant role in her termination saying:

“The host of the game show had always been very kind and generous to Stirling until he learned that she was pregnant.”

Once Barker discovered she was pregnant, he insisted that she couldn’t work during her pregnancy because it was “dangerous” and a “liability.” The talk show host advised her to “go home and take care of your baby.”
When she was allowed to return to her job at the show in 2008, she was soon informed the show was “going in another direction” and was fired.

Stirling believes if she’d “been allowed to return to work sooner after having her baby, she could have become acquainted with the new people working on the game show and thereby would have had a better chance to retain her job.”

In her lawsuit, Stirling is seeking more than $25,000 in damages. Another former Price is Right model, Brandi Cochran, is also suing the show claiming that the staff treated her so poorly during her pregnancy that it caused a miscarriage.So far, FremantleMedia, the company that produces The Price is Right, had no comment regarding the suits.