Former Playboy model Jenny McCarthy will exit The View, along with Sherri Shepherd, in August when her contract expires.

In a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, McCarthy talked about her time on ABC’s daytime talk show and what the opportunity to work with recently-retired Barbara Walters really meant to her.

“The most rewarding [part of The View] has definitely been working with Barbara Walters for a year, I mean work[ing] under her and just … asking her questions backstage has been the most intriguing thing,” McCarthy, who will marry Donnie Wahlberg later this year, told Stern.

Despite the opportunity to work with a media legend, the 41-year-old mother of one said she never felt she could be herself on The View.

“I’ll tell you something Howard, it’s like halfway into it, it was probably around February, I went, ‘God I’m not allowed to be the best of me here,’ I feel like to have a voice, to be able to speak without having to interrupt people,” McCarthy explained. “It’s very difficult, and I don’t like doing it, it’s very uncomfortable, so I felt like, ‘You know what? Maybe this is just a stepping stone for me to go somewhere where I can actually be my full self.'”

After her gig on The View wraps up, McCarthy will host a SiriusXM radio show called Dirty, Sexy, Funny with Jenny McCarthy.