![]() It’s more encouragement towards my daughter, like, ‘You don’t need his permission, babe. “You are literally brainwashed to think that. “Nine years ago, if you had met me when I was still super religious, I would have thought they were monsters,” Haart says of women wearing pants. Another scene in the first episode features Batsheva being reprimanded by her 20-something husband for wearing jeans, instead of a skirt or dress. The opening scene of the pilot features oysters (which are not kosher) on the family dinner table, while Haart talks to her oldest daughter, Batsheva, and her religious husband about sex ( definitely not kosher) and then reveals that she bought her youngest, college-aged queer daughter, Miriam, a vibrator ( most definitely not kosher). “My Unorthodox Life,” which launched this week, follows lady boss Haart at work and at home in her swanky New York City penthouse where she and her family adapt to their new, literally unorthodox lifestyle outside of the extreme religious Jewish community in which they all grew up. Haart’s unprecedented rise sounds almost unbelievable, as if it were ripped out of the pages of a fictional movie script - which is probably why Netflix greenlit her reality show, “ My Unorthodox Life.” (For the record, Haart’s story is entirely true.) I got comfortable with being uncomfortable.” When you are young, you are proud of what you’re learning, but as you get older, you are proud of what you know but stop being proud of what you don’t know. “I think that my ignorance was my greatest strength. “I got comfortable with being uncomfortable,” she says of her journey. Haart can’t pinpoint one specific moment that inspired her to escape her former life and she can’t identify just one piece of advice that led to her success. “So, w hen I went to the outside world, I had no clue, but I figured if I could do that, then I can have a shoe brand. ![]() ![]() I was told, ‘Be obedient, be colorless, be the wallpaper and fade into the background,'” Haart tells Variety. “My whole life, I had all these questions in my head, but I was taught that because I even had these questions, I was a bad person.
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