The ultra-Orthodox are encouraged to have lots of children, but Julia stopped at four, and secretly started taking birth control. Not only did I fire the nanny, I cried for two days, because I was sure I had ruined my daughter's soul, 100 per cent convinced that God was going to punish me, and that me and my daughter were going to hell for eternity because there was a radio on in my house. 'Once, one of her babysitters had put on a radio with the news. 'Batsheva was brought up the most fundamentalist because she was my eldest,' she told Oprah Daily. Star power: She launched her own line, e1972, in 2020 with Bebe Reha singing at her runway show To attract a husband, Julia changed her first tame to Talia - a more Hebrew-sounding name - when she was 18, and by 19 she was married off to Yosef Hendler, a man she barely knew.Ī housewife, she had four children with Yosef: Batsheva, Miriam, Shlomo, and Aron, and they were raised with the same strict upbringing. 'By the time I was married, I already had seven children,' she said. She read a lot, from classic literature to fashion magazines she had to sneak from a 7-Eleven.Īt 16, she taught herself to sew, and would make her own modest versions of the clothes she saw in those magazines.īut she was busy in her traditional role, too. Because she was the oldest of her parents' eight kids, and female, she often cared for her younger siblings like a mother would, changing diapers and wiping their noses. No fun: Because she was the oldest of her parents' eight kids, and female, she often cared for her younger siblings like a mother would, changing diapers and wiping their nosesīut Julia's interests always pushed beyond the limits of what was deemed acceptable. 'You grow up thinking you don’t matter at all.' Our lives were governed by a web of modesty laws that required us to not only cover our bodies head-to-toe, but to behave comparatively, as well,' she told the New York Post. 'Where I lived, women were to be rarely seen and never heard. I was told, "Women’s minds are light" - "nashim da'atan kalos,'' she said. She also described a sexist worldview wherein men studied the Torah but women did not 'because my mind wasn't capable of grasping it, you see. 'We lived in the 1800s,' she told the Los Angeles Times of her Yeshivish background, explaining that modesty for women was paramount and access to outside information via television, radio, or even newspapers was was hard to come by. Though she was not Hasidic, she did have an ultra-orthodox upbringing. When she was 11, they settled in Monsey, a suburb 35 miles north of New York City with the largest population of Hasidic Jews in the US outside of New York City, with nearly half of households speaking Yiddish or Hebrew. Julia was born Julia Leibov in Moscow, Russia, emigrating to the US with her parents at the age of three. 'It was stay and die, or walk out the door': How Julia Haart quit the community that left her suicidal - and became a global fashion star
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