What in the world?! My Unorthodox Life star Julia Haart breastfed her own brother?! The Netflix personality revealed the shocking truth on Tuesday’s episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, explaining she was asked to breastfeed her brother, Shlomo, who is 23 years younger than her.
This was decades ago. Julia had just given birth to her daughter Batsheva, now 30, and her momma then welcomed the now-29-year-old Shlomo just after.
She dished: OMG! That’s odd AF! But apparently this wasn’t too unusual in “her world” at the time. Related: Bijou Phillips ‘Still Very Much In Love With’ Danny Masterson Julia was raised in the Haredi community — a subsect of Orthodox Judaism.
And back in the day, it used to be common for women to hire wet nurses — AKA someone to breastfeed their child for them – but the practice largely stopped in the 20th century.
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