Julia Haart admits she breastfed her brother at the request of her mom
Julia Haart made a shocking revelation during an episode of “Not Skinny but Not Fat.” She shared that she breastfed her brother, who is 23 years younger than her and just a few months younger than her eldest daughter. This happened after her mother asked her to do so. Haart explained that her mother told her to nurse her brother since she was already nursing her daughter. The situation was described as a “mindf–k” by Haart. At the time, Haart had just given birth to her daughter Batsheva, who is now 30, while her mother had given birth to her son Shlomo, who is now 29. Haart was part of the Haredi community in New York, a group within Orthodox Judaism that opposes modern practices and values. However, she left the community in 2013 at the age of 42.
During the interview, Haart compared her experience to a world where wet nurses were common. Wet nurses were women hired to breastfeed other women’s children, but this practice died out in the 20th century. Haart described herself as a “time traveler” and believed that people would need to travel to another time to truly understand the world she used to live in.
When asked about when she started questioning her beliefs, Haart admitted that she had been silently questioning them her entire life. However, she had been convinced by the community that she was flawed for not accepting the system. It was her daughter Miriam, who came out as bisexual, that became the catalyst for Haart’s departure from the community. Haart realized that her daughter was not flawed and that it was the system that was flawed.
Haart also shared details about her personal life, including an arranged marriage at the age of 19 to a man named Yosef Hendler, whom she did not want to be with. They had four children together before divorcing. She then married Silvio Scaglia in 2020, but their marriage only lasted two years before Haart filed for divorce, accusing him of threatening to kill her. Scaglia denied these claims.
Julia Haart revealed she breastfed her brother — who is 23 years her junior and just a few months younger than her eldest daughter — after her mom asked her to.
“You wanna hear a real mindf–k?” I nursed my brother,” she told Amanda Hirsch during Tuesday’s episode of “Not Skinny but Not Fat.”
“My mother’s like ‘Oh, you’re already nursing your daughter, take this one too’ — and so I ended up nursing my brother and my daughter. Now that’s a mindf–k.”
The fashion designer went on to explain that, at the time, she had just welcomed daughter Batsheva, now 30, and her mom, who hasn’t been identified, had given birth to Shlomo, now 29.
Haart was part of the Haredi community in New York, which is a group within Orthodox Judaism that is in opposition to modern practices and values. She ended up leaving the community in 2013 at the age of 42.
The “My Unorthodox Life” star, 52, went on to compare “her world” to one where wet nurses existed during the interview. A wet nurse is a woman hired to breastfeed another woman’s child, a practice that died in the 20th century.
Haart also dubbed herself a “time traveler,” saying that people would need to travel to another time to “understand the world I used to live in.”
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When Hirsch asked the “Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie” author when she started questioning her beliefs, she admitted she had her “entire life — silently.”
She continued, “But they had convinced me that I was somehow inherently flawed for not being OK with the system.”
However, the former Elite Model Management CEO went on to admit it was her 23-year-old daughter, Miriam, who was the “beginning and end” of her exodus story because she had come out as bisexual.
“No one could convince me that she was somehow flawed,” she explained. “When she started questioning [the beliefs] that’s when I realized it’s not [only] me, it’s the system.”
During the interview, the Netflix star also shared that she was in an arranged marriage at the age of 19 to a “sad man” named Yosef Hendler, who she didn’t want to be with.
They went on to welcome four children: Batsheva, Miriam, Shlomo, 27, and Aron, 15.
Despite being forced to marry him, Haart referred to her ex as a “lovely” man, adding that he was better than her second ex-husband, Silvio Scaglia, whom she married in 2020.
“The guy I was forced to marry is a much nicer one person than man I chose,” Haart joked. “Go figure that one out.”
Scaglia and the fashion mogul were only married for two years before she filed for divorce in December 2022 and accused him of threatening to kill her. He denied her claims.
