Using a nest egg she had saved from selling insurance in her community, Haart moved to New York City, bringing her daughter Miriam, now 21, with her. Fashion honcho Julia Haart has dressed A-listers, including Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow. ” She weighed 73 pounds the day she left. “That way, people wouldn’t think I killed myself - they would just think I have an eating disorder, so my children would still be able to get shidduchim. “In the end, I decided the easiest way to kill myself would be to starve myself to death,” she said.

An old diary entry revealed “ways for me to commit suicide as politely as possible,” she recalled, either by hanging herself or getting her hands on pills or a gun. She really did feel like death was the only way out. So it was stay and die, or walk out the door.” “You’re trapped in a life that’s not yours. I couldn’t stay for one more second,” she said. “The day came when I couldn’t take it anymore. Kim Kardashian wears this lingerie out in public “You grow up thinking you don’t matter at all.” Before she became a lingerie designer, Julia Haart was born Talia Leibov and part of the ultra-Orthodox community and was married at age 19 (left).Īfter years of sneaking fashion magazines from the local 7-Eleven and watching “Sex and the City” on the sly, in 2013, Haart finally summoned the courage to walk away from her community and her husband of 23 years, whom she said she “barely knew” when marrying him. 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 said. “Where I lived, women were to be rarely seen and never heard. The contrast between her former and current lives couldn’t be more stark. She married at 19 and raised four children in the insular upstate enclave.īut eight years ago, she left the “fundamentalist” community, and since then has had a meteoric rise in the fashion industry, going from her own startup shoe line to running Elite World Group - and now she stars in her own Netflix reality series, “My Unorthodox Life,” debuting July 14. Born Talia Leibov, she was raised in a Haredi Jewish Orthodox community in Monsey, New York. Haart’s cluelessness was no fault of her own. “I never heard of an orgasm, let alone a vibrator.” “The first orgasm I had was at age 35 - with a vibrator, after 16 years of marriage,” the 50-year-old told The Post. Trash-talking table tennis mom allegedly harassed daughter’s Jewish doubles partnerĪlthough she has created lingerie for the bodies of Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow, fashion mogul Julia Haart was a late bloomer. SCOTUS refuses to block order that requires Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ group Orthodox Jews say they were excluded from White House hate-crimes summit

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