Brazen: My unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie - As seen on Netflix's My Unorthodox Life

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The book doesn't even really end, it just sputters out with her finally selling her failed brand that has lost tens of thousands of dollars to a company that will take over production and then that's it. Nothing about the past six years, her TV show or why when you see her on Netflix she acts like a dumb nutcase. No real coming-of-age learning about how she would have done life differently or even any demeaning the religious institution she was part of, because even when she left the religious group she continued to rush home on Sabbath and holidays, get in her 1800s outfits, and act like a practitioner. It's very bizarre. Julia Haart is a hustler. Her story is an inspiring, believe-in-your-dreams, never-give-up, anything-in-life-is-possible story of hope. She is a very smart businesswoman who also loves women! Run, don’t walk, to get this book!” —Lisa Rinna

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They came over thirty minutes later, both of them, and sitting at my tiny kitchen table, painted a very dismal picture of what my life would look like if I left Yosef. “You will be a divorced woman with a baby who’s also a baalas teshuva, and your family is Russian. Do you know what that means, Talia? It means you will be alone for the rest of your life.” So Haart created a double life. In the ultra-Orthodox world, clothing has one purpose—to cover the body, head to toe—and giving any thought to one’s appearance beyond that is considered sinful, an affront to God. But when no one was looking, Haart would pore over fashion magazines and sketch designs for the clothes she dreamed about wearing in the world beyond her Orthodox suburb. She started preparing for her escape by educating herself and creating a “freedom” fund. At the age of forty-two, she finally mustered the courage to flee the fundamentalist life that was strangling her soul.

Haart said that her problem isn't with being religious, and points out that she will always support her kids. "The religious people in my family were so respectful to each other."

He had betrayed me, plain and simple. I didn’t feel anger or hurt. I was just shattered. All my plans, the future I had seen for myself, was now dust and ashes. It was the destruction of the plan that hurt me the most. That was the only thing that had kept me going during high school- the dream of escape, the thought that one day I would be Mrs. Yechiel Horowitz. The hurt over his betrayal and the anger would come later. Now all I could think of was the destruction of my plan. I didn’t cry, of course. Never let them see you cry. I walked away from Yechiel, and from our future together, with my head held high. Hendler appears in various episodes and in some ways steals the season finale.He is seen having sensitive discussions with his children and Julia about a range of family and religious topics. I was a forty-three-year-old mother of four. He was thirty and owned the planet. Why in the world would he ever want me? My dreams only took me as far as kissing. Plus, he hadn’t even touched my hand. Within a week of leaving her old life behind, Julia started a shoe brand and within nine months she was in Paris for fashion week. A year later, she became creative director of La Perla, the world-leading lingerie brand. And now, she is the co-owner and c.e.o. of Elite World Group, and one of the most powerful people in the fashion industry.”

It's unclear if a second season will be produced. But Haart's story is far from over. Her memoir,"Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie," is due to be published . I'm not going to minimize that our community doesn't have areas where we need to improve," Fleksher said. "We do." But Jewish women, she added,are much more than the stereotypes Fleksher believes "My Unorthodox Life" perpetuates. The reason that people are questioning about what I don’t talk about,” Haart said, “is because I didn’t want to bring negative exposure to the community.”

There was a lot of repetition. ‘I can remember exactly what I was wearing’ is an example of a line I read a good 5 times. If not more. According to the Monsey-based mommy online chats and several articles by those who purported to be close friends in Haart’s Monsey days, she stood out even as a young woman and a yeshiva teacher.

There is an ascetic approach to sexuality in Judaism (which is typically not practiced- read Marital Intimacy by Avraham Peretz Friedman to learn more about the sources and texts and the joyful sexuality most Orthodox Jews embrace). However, even there there is a halakhic obligation of onah , ensuring the wife’s sexual fulfillment, gratification and pleasure. I don’t know how the rabbi could have failed to teach this to Yosef, or if Yosef simply missed that part, but it’s very distressing that this was the foundation for their relationship.

After Julia had her first child, she wanted to divorce Yosef. She called her parents and told them that she wanted a divorce. Haart has seen such comments. She dismisses critical commentary that asserts she was never ultra-Orthodox, that she always dressed fashionably (which she takes as a compliment) and that her “modern” life was not restricted in education or career opportunities. Her children are key players in the reality show, and in some ways represent at least part of the complex continuum of Jewish observance: