QUOTED: Meredith Vieira on Barbara Walters's Recovery

05/17/2010 at 08:00 AM EDT

"She's an amazing person, and I've never seen anybody with a constitution like hers. She's like a horse. She eats so much – she's like a healthy, gorgeous, incredible woman."

• Meredith Vieira, 56, speaking to PEOPLE at Saturday's Disney-ABC Group Summer Press Junket, on the stamina of her former View co-host Barbara Walters, 80, who is currently recovering from surgery for a heart valve replacement.
– Bethany Powers

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