Mayim Bialik: Just because I have a body, doesnt mean it means to be on display
With the launch of Mayim Bialik’s non-Goop-esque lifestyle website, Grok Nation, I had a feeling she’d start doing heavy press, and that’s starting to happen. Mayim isn’t afraid to speak out against Hollywood’s trends. She last took issue with Botox, cryotherapy, manicures, and gym obsessions in a larger discussion about body modification. Mayim’s blog isn’t so much a lifestyle site as a collection of her own essays. She’s good at starting discussions.
Mayim sat down with Fox News to reveal how her super-religious ways make it difficult to fit in with the tv-star crowd. She does fine, I assume, with her Big Bang Theory co-stars, but Mayim says she receives a lot of heat for her Orthodox Judaism. When she visited Israel this summer, she felt a huge backlash. Mayim also peppers her discussion with more notes on modesty:
The difficulty of being religious in Hollywood: “I think in general it’s never going to be trendy to be observant or religious in Hollywood circles. There are people I know of faith and we tend to congregate together. I study Jewish texts weekly. That’s something really positive to me when you’re a person of faith, it stays with you all the time.”
The backlash: “I’ve gotten a lot of negative attention for visiting Israel. That’s what’s amazing … simply by going to Israel this summer and saying nothing more than, ‘I’ve gone to Israel,’ I got the same amount of hatred and threats and anti-Semitism for actually making a statement trying to support people whether I like it or not are serving in an army. That reveals the truth. It really doesn’t matter what I support or believe the fact that I’m Jewish and go there is enough – that should be alarming to most people.”
She believes in science and religion: “Being a scientist and a person of faith, people want to know how that is. It leads to a lot of interesting conversations that I welcome but a lot of people want to open up a conversation just to tell you, you’re wrong.”
Her style: “Being a modest dresser, that for me is a certain amount of my religious faith — privacy and chastity. Just because I have a body, doesn’t mean it means to be on display. It’s important, especially for children and men and my sons to hear I’m not ashamed of my body, I just don’t feel the need to display it with two tiny pieces of fabric when I want to go swimming.”
[From Fox 411]
Mayim’s red carpet style has been described as frumpy by many a fashion blogger, myself included. She dresses for her own preferences, so she must be comfortable. And it’s nice to see someone who stays true to their own beliefs, even if the fashion itself isn’t very exciting. I think we see enough racks on display at the events (and elsewhere) that Mayim may be the one who’s truly shocking people. Does she seem a little judgy here? Not really, but you may feel differently.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
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