Netflix Unveils 'My Unorthodox Life' Season 2 First Look and Return Date

Mar. 15, 2025

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My Unorthodox Lifereturns with the drama for season 2.

In newly released First Look photos from the upcoming season of the Netflix series, which follows fashion CEOJulia Haartand her family after they leave an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, things are heating up for members of the Haart family.

Julia, 51, will also be working on her relationships with her three children. OldestBatsheva Haart, is also ending her nine-year relationship with husbandBen Weinstein(news that they shared last November).

Younger daughter Miriam Haart starts dating a woman in season 2. It’s her first committed same-sex relationship, and Julia wants to be there to help her navigate it.

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And Aron Hendler, Julia’s son, might take some convincing to stay in his secular school instead of dropping out to attend Orthodox yeshiva full-time.

Haart shares four kids, Batsheva, Miriam, Aron and Shlomo Haart with ex-husband Yosef Hendler. She was married to Silvio Scaglia for two years beforefiling for divorcein February.

After spending most of her life in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community where women and girls wore modest dress and were not allowed to participate in sports or sing or dance in front of men, Haart left in 2013. She previously told PEOPLE: “I was 43 and knew nothing about the world.”

Since then, she has worked to represent women who were involved in highly religious communities and also left to seek independence.

“I’ve met women from all over the world, and whereas their lives may not be exactly similar to mine, there’s so many women who have been told they are less than, that they have to wait their turn, that they have to be polite,“she said during a 2021 appearance onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show.

She added, “And I thought, ‘Here’s a story about a crazy woman who picked herself up at 43 and changed everything about her life.'”

For years prior, Haart remained devout, but as her children got older, she grew increasingly uncomfortable with the community’s strict principles and practices. (Ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, Jews adhere to very strict observance of traditional Jewish law — far more stringent than is expected in Modern Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaism — and often seek to limit the influences of the outside world.) Haart still calls herself “a very spiritual person” and has said her “issue was never with Judaism, it was purely and solely with fundamentalism.”

Now, as she prepares to share more of her life in season 2, Haart wants her story to help people looking to make a change in their own lives, she said onEllen: “I hope that it gives inspiration and courage to others to do the same.”

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My Unorthodox Lifeseason 2 premieres Dec. 2 on Netflix.

source: people.com