When asked how she garnered so much success with so few connections and in such a short period of time, Haart replied, “For me, it wasn’t success or failure, it was success or going back. Now, Haart is CEO and co-owner of the talent media conglomerate Elite World Group, and author of the upcoming book Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie. Just months after leaving, she founded her own shoe company, which was later bought by the major fashion company La Perla. “I saw them doing to my daughter what they had done to me, and I realized that this was not just my misery,” she tells Katie Couric Media.Īt age 43, after years of careful planning, Haart finally made her escape. Weighing just 73 pounds, Haart watched her daughter Miriam, who was 13 at the time, being groomed for a life of marriage and servitude. Ultimately, it was Haart’s children who saved her. Because suicide is so taboo in the community, Haart decided to starve herself to death - if she died from an eating disorder, she thought, perhaps her children wouldn’t be punished for her sins. When she was in her 40s, she made a risky, life-altering decision: she was going to escape Yeshivishe Heimishe, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect based in Monsey, New York in which she’d lived all of her life, or die trying. Julia Haart is proof that it’s never too late to change the course of your fate.

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