"I just don't believe God is going to throw me into hell because my knees are exposed"
Julia Haart, 50, said.
Julia Haart is the protagonist of the 2021 Netflix documentary, which tells the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman through this 9-episode documentary.
Julia Haart (dressed in red in the middle) and her four children
A housewife with no education or work experience left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community at the age of 42 and became the top speaker in the fashion circle in New York eight years later.
Julia Haart left destitute when she left, and is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's a story of oppression and rebellion, and it's a story about achieving wealth freedom.
Julia was born in Russia and settled in New York with her family when she was 7 years old. There, she grew up in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Harred community and has been very strict with traditional Jewish rules.
From childhood, every detail of Julia's life, including food, clothing, shelter and travel, was restricted by the rules of the sect.
At the age of 19, after taking care of seven younger siblings, she married a man she barely knew. The two had met only a few hours before the wedding, and for the next twenty-three years, the man dominated her life.
The Haredi community, like the life of an average Orthodox Jew, is very family-centered, so Julia's character is defined from birth – as wife and mother.
Julia Haart was just a housewife until the age of 42, caring for four children, religiously adhering to her religious beliefs and doing everything that fits the teachings.
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Julia's life goals are set to help her husband achieve his career and take care of the healthy growth of the children in the family.
And women in the Haredi community obey the rules of modest dress, wearing long skirts and long sleeves, high necks, and if married, they can wear some form of hair, women are not allowed to wear pants
In front of men, women should cover their bodies so as not to attract the attention of men.
Bus stop for Haredi (Orthodox) Jewish couple, typical Orthodox long skirt
So Julia spent the first half of her life almost forced to cover herself, and Julia often felt that the part of her body was only her hands and face.
Women are also not allowed to watch television, and before their children enter school, they need to sign a pledge that there is no TV or computer in their home and no Internet, otherwise the child will not be allowed to go to school.
As a young woman, she felt she had no choice but to continue her devotion to religion through marriage.
But when her youngest daughter, Miriam, began to question why she wasn't allowed to sing, run or ride a bike, Julia began to re-examine it all.
She knew that if there was no way to leave, her daughters would be equally endlessly forced to obey the rules of imprisoning women, and if the children did not follow the rules, the mothers of the children would be cursed to hell.
Julia wanted her children to have different results, so in 2012 she left the community with her youngest daughter, Miriam, to start her own business.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" > passion for fashion has made her successful</h1>
Julia's perception of world events before she turned 35 was almost entirely framed by the discipline of an ultra-orthodox religious community, who had no radio, television, magazines, no bars, and never dated anyone else.
"I felt like a Martian who set foot on Earth," so tragic that she often considered suicide.
At the age of 35, julia's new journey in life is the beginning of a new journey, and it will take her seven years to prepare to leave.
With no education or work experience, Julia began selling life insurance and annuities, which she says are her "escape" reserves.
She sneaks into fashion magazines when no one notices, and she often fantasizes about designing clothes sketches in a world outside of religious communities.
In ultra-Orthodox religious communities clothing has only one purpose: to cover the whole body from head to toe. Any thought about your appearance is considered sinful, which is an insult to God.
If you like clothes and colors, that means you're too focused on your body and don't think about your soul.
"When I left, I was wearing the bare bare bottom i could find, shortest shorts," she said.
"Because that's freedom for me."
When Julia Haart decided to start a fashion career at the age of 42, she was a housewife with zero work experience as a mum of four, but that didn't stop her from continuing her efforts.
Julia left the religious community in November 2012 and in January 2013 she founded a shoe company under her own name.
"I'm not going to fail because there's no way".
It may be that Ziwei Xing, who has found investors in the most incredible places, will have someone invest in her company when eating at a restaurant, someone next to the plane, and someone will invest in her company. The third investor was in the office of an eye hospital.
Julia once asked an investor, "What made you invest in me?" ”
He replied: "Julia, you don't look like you're going to fail, we just believe that." ”
Julia found a factory in Italy, where she was in charge of PR, sales, and everything.
Within two years Julia's shoe brand company partnered with La Perla to sell in 127 stores at La Perla, with all investors receiving a 15% return.
Due to the innovative design and success of the shoe collection, she sold it to the big brand La Perla and soon became the creative director of the brand.
Her success at La Perla has led her to become ceo and partner of Elite World Group and one of the most powerful people in New York fashion.
Deciding to give up her familiar but uncomfortable life, she embarked on a career she loved, making millions of dollars in the business of two years of entrepreneurship without any connections or professional training.
She told people in People magazine: "I didn't think it was weird to start a shoe brand when you had never made shoes. ”
"You don't know what you can do until you get up and try."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="142" > remarry a top billionaire at age 48</h1>
After divorcing her first husband and starting a new life for herself, Julia met her second husband, Silvio, at work.
Silvio Scaglia Haart is an Italian businessman who, after selling his stake in a telephone company, was one of forbes' world's 100 richest men.
He acquired the Élite Group in 2010 and three years later acquired the then-bankrupt La Perla brand. Julia met when she was a director at La Perla.
Silvio owned La Perla at the time, but it wasn't until a few years later that the relationship between the two became closer.
The two eventually started dating and getting married in 2019, the year Julia turned 48.
To Julia's disbelief, the husband, in support of her independence and personality, used his wife Julia's last name as a suffix (the husband's name became Silvio Scaglia Haart).
Julia, who had never dated anyone before meeting her current husband, said "never been kissed by someone I chose".
The real reason Julia is on the reality show series is that I want someone to say while watching the show: You see this crazy woman can do it at 42 years old without education, no one knows in the outside world, and I can do it.
Julia shares her story of turning the tables against the wind and breaking through the confinement, hoping that everyone can understand that it is never too late to change your life.
She has been inspiring women around the world to find freedom and realize their dreams.
The turning point in our lives may simply be a choice we make inadvertently on a calm day, and then change all the trajectories of our lives as a result.
Julia, in her twenties, would certainly not have imagined that she would be a beautiful sister with money and status when she was 50 years old
Since there is always uncertainty in life, we cannot predict what life will be like in the future.
Then everyone can not be trapped in fate, not trapped in self-limitation, no one is qualified to say: "This is how your life is."