![]() ![]() She gave herself the new surname Haart, as a tribute to her maiden name, Leibov, and the similar-sounding Hebrew word for “heart”: Liev. I literally packed my s*** and walked out the door with her.” ![]() “They were doing to her what they had done to me - trying to push her down and mold her into that flat person that they could disappear,” Haart told The New York Times in July 2021. She continued to live “in an extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish community,” as she puts it in her Netflix series, raising her four kids in the Atlanta area, until she finally decided to leave that life behind because she felt one of her daughters was being pressured to conform to the community’s rules and mores just like she was. She was born Julia Leibov in Russia in 1971, emigrated as a 3-year-old to Texas with her parents, eventually settled in the greater New York City area-where her parents started to immerse the family deeper into Orthodox Judaism-and got married at 19 to her first husband. Today, the 50-year-old mom’s to-do list includes serving as creative director at luxury skivvies brand La Perla, running the Elite World Group modeling conglomerate (which reps famous folks like Kendall Jenner) as the company’s CEO, plus designing her own, namesake shoe line! (More on that below.)īut as fans of her Netflix series have come to learn, Haart has lived through what seems like several lives. Keep reading to find out all about Haart and the hit series that’s turning her into a star. As star Julia Haart says in the My Unorthodox Life trailer, “If there’s one thing you can say, it’s that we have a very interesting life.” And fans clearly agree, turning the show into a sleeper hit this summer. ![]()
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