Cancer gal'humiliated' at NJ DMV

A cancer patient is suing the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission for insisting she remove the headscarf she wears to hide her chemotherapy-induced hair loss.

Jennifer Giordano, who has Stage 2 breast cancer, went to the Eatontown MVC on June 14 to update her license, and claims an employee humiliated her and caused her to burst into tears.

Giordano (pictured) says her first question to MVC workers was, “Do I have to take my scarf off ?” and she was told she did.

“I told her, ‘I have breast cancer, I’m bald, I don’t want to take it off,” Giordano recalled. “I don’t want to stand bald in front of a room of 40 people.”

Still, the employee insisted — and Giordano said she was shocked at the cold manner in which she was treated.

“I usually have a big mouth, but in the moment, I was so dis- traught and broken and in shock that it was kind of a daze, like a fog,” she said.

“I was meek and weak and couldn’t believe this was actually happening to me.”

Finally another employee used her old photo to print the new license and the manager told her the MVC allows people who wear head coverings for medical or religious reasons to keep them on for new photos.

Giordano hopes her suit, which she filed Tuesday will push the agency to better train employees.

MVC spokesperson Mairin Bellack said she could not comment on pending litigation.