Playboy model claims airline staff forced her to 'button up' inappropriate outfit before flight

A former Playboy model has claimed airline staff forced her to ‘button up’ her outfit before a flight.

OnlyFans creator Sara Blake Cheek claimed on X that an American Airlines flight attendant had made the request despite ‘other women’ wearing the ‘same outfit’.

The 34-year-old’s modelling career started in 2020, with her featuring on the cover of Playboy Norway in 2022. And the sports talk show host’s not such a stranger to controversy either, having previously claimed to have been banned from her daughter’s cheerleading events due to her work in the adult industry.

But on this occasion, it seems like it was down to just what she was wearing in real life rather than what she’s not wearing on the internet that got her having words on the flight.

The airline has apologised to the model (Instagram/onlysarablake)

She wrote on X on Sunday (31 August): “The flight attendant on @AmericanAir told me I needed to button up my shirt prior to boarding my flight.

“I was unaware that American Airlines had a dress code that said you can’t wear athletic attire if you have big boobs.”

Cheek shared this alongside a selfie from her chin down of an unbuttoned flannel shirt with a cropped vest top, showing some of her chest.

The outfit in question (X/@‌saracheeky1)

In a follow-up post shortly after, she then said she was finally leaving Atlanta after a cancelled flight, two reschedules and then a delay.

“Now the flight attendant, tells me to button my shirt, but not the other women wearing the same outfit but are different in colour than I am,” she continued in her complaint.

“@AmericanAir glad I’m a platinum member.”

The airline soon commented on her post to apologise as users called the situation ‘not right at all’.

Sara says other women were wearing the same thing (X/@‌saracheeky1)

“We have a deep culture of respect for both our customers and our team members, and we're sorry for anything less than consistent and friendly service,” American Airlines said on X.

“We're sharing this experience with crew leadership internally, and we'd like to have our specialist take a closer look if we can. Please meet us in DMs with a good phone and email contact for you, in case they need to reach out.”

Cheek later shared a mirror selfie of her full outfit (a simple active wear get-up with a check flannel shirt over the top) as users said there’s ‘nothing wrong’ with it.

Although some said they didn’t see the problem with just buttoning up, others wrote: "Who cares what anyone thinks."

LADbible has contacted American Airlines for further comment.