Julia Haart left the wigs and fundamentalism of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community behind and became the CEO of the Elite World Group conglomerate.

(CNN Spanish) – Julia Haart was born in 1971 in Moscow. After moving to the United States and settling with her parents and siblings in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey in New York, one day she decided to leave everything behind and start a new life.

The reality “My Unorthodox Life” from the Netflix platform shows the life today of the CEO of Elite World Group. Maybe that name doesn’t tell you much, but when we talk about the global modeling agency Elite and the La Perla lingerie line, the situation changes a bit.

Haart left her entire previous life behind to start a new stage since, according to her, she was trapped. “I was covered from head to toe; I wore a wig on my head and what I had been taught and said all my life was that if I wanted to get to heaven and for God to love me, I had to be obedient, shut up, stay in a second flat and be a mother and wife, “he said in a video call with Zona Pop from his luxurious penthouse in Manhattan.

Your children, your greatest treasure

Julia Haart is very open and direct with her four children Batsheva (28), Shlomo (25), Miriam (21) and Aron (15). Each one has their own personality, and in addition to being their mother, they see her as their friend.

“I never had a plan for my children. The way I saw my role as a mother was to give them all the support they could need to get where they wanted to go. I want them to communicate with me. We have been through a lot together,” says Haart , who started his career in the world of fashion with his own line of shoes.

“We moved 400 years into the future. We left the 1800s and entered the 21st century. Shlomo is not religious at all, but he loves the Sabbath. He likes traditions. So, actually, he surpassed Batsheva. We all do. love being Jewish, “he adds.

Not because they have left the ultra-Orthodox community behind, do they forget their roots, says Haart. “We all love traditions. We all love what we learned, you know, charity, community kindness. That is why we have carried it with us in our hearts. But I think everyone’s journey is very different.”

But there is certainly a character in this reality to whom Julia would entrust her children’s lives and is Robert Brotherton, the company’s vice president of operations: “First of all, he is my best friend in the universe, my brother and my accomplice. He is the person I would trust. Not only with my life, but also with the lives of my children. And that’s the highest compliment I could give anyone. “

Julia Haart, an example for women to follow?

Something that put Julia at the top is that she transformed Elite World Group from a company worth $ 90 million to $ 1 billion, according to Haart herself.

In addition, it has several brand and product launches related to the world of fashion on the horizon.

And, above all, continue to empower women so that they no longer care how they look, what size they are or how tall their waist is.

But is it considered an example for women?

She responds, “I hope so; I’m not perfect. I’m sure I make mistakes all the time, but I think my mistakes make other people feel comfortable. I hope that by being open in telling my truth to the world, even if it’s a flawed truth, even if I’ve made mistakes, the point is, it doesn’t matter. Go for it. Do it. “

Julia Haart assures that she would entrust Robert Brotherton with the lives of her children (Photo Netflix © 2021)

Fundamentalism: what is it?

The word that Julia repeats the most throughout the reality is the word fundamentalism. In the religious context it is the literal interpretation of religious texts.

According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, fundamentalism is an “uncompromising demand to submit to an established doctrine or practice.” The word that Julia repeats the most throughout the reality show is the word fundamentalism.

For Julia, this word “means that a group of people separate themselves from the rest of the world and convince the people who live there that this is the only way of good, and that to mingle, meet or spend time with someone outside of that community. it is dangerous and evil, and that God will hate you and you will go to hell. “

Pop Zone
Do you think life wanted you to experience what you experienced as an Orthodox Jew, what you went through at Monsey in order to be the person you are today?

Julia Haart
I ask myself that all the time because, on the one hand, everything I experienced has made me the person I am today. But, on the other hand, for all this that I went all the time, I hid her and kept her silent because they told me that I had to do it to be a good woman.

The best is yet to come

There are many plans for growth, from transforming into a media conglomerate, to empowering and democratizing the fashion industry.

“I am eight years old. Literally, I have been in this century for eight years. For me, this is all the beginning of what I consider my mission; I want to keep pushing myself to do other things,” says Haart.

“So I think the day I pinch myself and say ‘okay, you’ve done it,’ will be the day that there is an army of women by my side who are financially independent, who are in control of their lives and who never have to ask permission, “he concludes.

So far a second season of “My Unorthodox Life” has not been confirmed, but the first is composed of nine episodes and available throughout Latin America on the Netflix platform.