![]() She taught herself to sew at 16 and would make the tznius - modest - version of what she saw in the fashion magazines she smuggled into the house. (In fact, she’d secretly gone on birth control.) Later, as a married woman, she often was reprimanded for dressing in bright colors - to which she always had the same reply: “The day God stops making flowers, I’ll stop wearing colors.” (In an early episode of “My Unorthodox Life,” she returns to Monsey and goes grocery shopping while wearing a low-cut, shamrock green romper.) She once was pulled into the rabbi’s office for dancing too provocatively around other women at a wedding - where genders were always kept separate - and told she hadn’t been blessed by God with more children because her clothes were too form-fitting. ![]() In the year before she left, Haart thought about committing suicide but worried how the stigma of mental illness would affect her children’s marriage prospects. ![]() So she tried to starve herself to death, dropping down to 73 pounds. She is explaining her thought process - “What’s the most inoffensive way to commit suicide, where my kids will still be able to get married?” - when her daughter, Miriam, 21, enters the room. Television Netflix’s apolitical ‘Shtisel’ faces a new test: The clout of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox “She’s the reason I’m alive today,” Haart says of Miriam, a student at Stanford and a proud bisexual whose active dating figures prominently in “My Unorthodox Life.” Like her mother, Miriam favors a bold personal style: She’s wearing platform sneakers and a Gucci track jacket with matching shorts. The sleeper hit ‘is not a political opinion piece,’ says co-writer Ori Elon. ![]() But critics argue it ignores the ultra-Orthodox community’s political power. ![]()
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